pitying

Example Sentences

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Gone is Bushman—Gone Are Spotty Films, Title Readers Pitying the cinema has attained the proportions of a national pastime.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pitying the little destroyer escorts and other pint-sized ships that always knifed around the "Big E" carrying nothing but radios, the Enterprise crew raised more money and installed a transmitter.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, “I am glad you enjoy it.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Let your heart be warm and tender— For the mute and helpless plead; Pitying leads to prompt relieving, Kindly thought to kindly deed.

From Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

So may her mother turn her eye, Pitying my grief, her heart may move, And she may give me her I love.’

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John