pitied
Example Sentences
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She mark’d his anguish, and, while toss’d he roam’d, Pitied Ulysses; from the flood, in form A cormorant, she flew, and on the raft Close-corded perching, thus the Chief address’d.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
Kind eyes watched the wandering ones, Pitied their forlorn distress; Grieved to note Tom’s ragged coat, And Margery’s tattered dress.
From On the Tree Top by Curtis, Jessie
Pitied, surely, and for the rest let us leave them to Him who knoweth all things.
From The Ascent of the Soul by Bradford, Amory H.
The touch of his compassion, like a mother’s, Pitied the madman, soothed him and caressed.
From The New World by Bynner, Witter
Fortune had ruth upon my plight * Pitied my long long bane and blight; Gave me what I would liefest sight; * And set me free from all afright.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
