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Example sentences for "took pity"

  • When the calf saw me, he brake his tether and ran to me, and fawned upon me and wailed and shed tears; so that I took pity on him and said to the herdsman, "Bring me a heifer and let this calf go!

  • For we took pity on thee and thereby we have lost our all.

  • Isa, the surgeon, was very humane and devout; he took pity on my misfortune, and accompanied me to my house.

  • So he took pity on the cow and pulled it out.

  • At evening a tiger came by and heard the child crying and he took pity on it and carried it away and he and his wife reared it.

  • Now a herd of wild bison was grazing in the jungle and they heard the crying and one of the cows went to see what was the matter and took pity on the children and suckled them.

  • Their neighbour, Muhamedshah, took pity on them.

  • Semen saw me, took pity on me, pulled off his caftan, put it on me, and told me to come here.

  • He stepped in during the daytime to get a drink; when he saw us, he took pity on us and remained at our house.

  • The Chief would ride around the village and call out, "Now I am poor in mind on account of the death of this man, because he took pity on us and saved the tribe.

  • The Nahu'rac (animals) took pity on me, and have made me alive again.

  • He said, "That time after I got killed, all kinds of Nahu'rac took pity on me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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