There are many contingencies by which the design may be defeated, but there are also circumstances to favour it; and to yield without a struggle, would only be to deliver ourselves into the hands of an unpitying foe.
Even the squaws looked on with unpitying aspect--though the victim was of their own race and sex.
It lighted the depths of the hearts whose outer pain and passion men were keen to read in the unpitying sunshine, and bared in those depths the feeble gropings for the right, the loving hope, the unuttered prayer.
Meanwhile, Henley the chaplain, with the stern austerity of unpitying fanaticism, asked Eustace if he was in a state of grace, or had witnessed the experience of a saving call.
Mark, traitor; at the time that thou unpitying sawest the heir of the greatness thou hast long usurped walk to execution, this innocent man, whom thou art now persecuting, preserved the life of thy only child.
And that harsh word, with its unpitying blight, Swept o'er the island like an arctic night.
From hapless mortals; in their place succeed Disease and dolorous eld; till travail sore And death unpitying sweep them from the scene.
The unpitying fates recall me, and dark sleep Closes my swimming eyes.
Ferdinand the Emperor, the prop and champion of the Romish cause, was as sincere and as unpitying as Dominic.
Poverty, chastity, and brotherly kindness were the sworn duties of the most rich, sensual, and unpitying society which ever lived.
When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer.
Th' unpitying ministers of Turkish justice, Nor dare to spare the life his frown condemns.
The year is moving now toward its most unpitying season.
Alas for Science and its skill Opposed to his unpitying will This mortal span that rends.
With unpitying voice Not comprehending Job, the Shuhite spake.
Would that yon chill and rayless dwelling Had shut me out, and all mine hated sorrow, Far from the gaze, the cold, unpitying gaze, Alike of stranger and of friend!
This blest revenge Will slake your hottest fires, heal the hurt flesh, Make the unpitying rack a gentle pillow.
I hasten hence ere this unpitying tempest Its fiercest burst, its gathering deluge pour; Cataracts of forked fire, commingled torrents, From the wide womb of the vexed elements.
For them there was nothing fearful in the stillness of their gloomy home, as they sat with stern, unpitying faces, gazing on the silent land beyond the ocean stream.
But the Moirai still remembered the doom of the burning brand, and the unpitying Erinys had not forgotten the curse of Althaia, and they moved the men of Kalydon to withhold the prize of his good deeds from the chieftain, Meleagros.
Now, her own area gleamed with bayonets; the Rebel newspaper was suppressed by the file of soldiers, civil process supplanted by the unpitying military arm.
Accustomed to luxury, and all unused to labor, in the unpitying sun they rowed for five days against the strong current of the Mississippi, burnt, sick, and famishing.
Not oft-blamed Paris, nor the hateful charms Of Helen; Heaven, unpitying Heaven to-day Hath razed the Trojan towers and reft the Dardan sway.
And the first step back to the unpitying cruelty of the old civilizations is the habit of looking on the unwashed as creatures of another world.
One strangled died; another from the height Fell headlong down upon the unpitying earth, And from the encrimsoned victor snatched his death: One built his funeral pyre and oped his veins, And sealed the furnace ere his blood was gone.
The unpitying sun flooded that wreck—what was left of it after a powder-cask, fitted with fuse, had been hurled aboard by Captain Briggs himself.
O unpityinggreat Heaven, There is no end to the disorder!
O unpitying great Heaven, It is not right he should reduce us all to such misery!
