pitying

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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

Pitying the fate of the poor orphan, the officer carried her away on his horse, and on reaching Piatigorsk, he placed her in a boarding-school kept by some French ladies.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

Pitying the miserable conditions of many of his fellow-workers, he did not rest till he had founded a school where the daughters of the poor clergy should receive a fair education at a nominal price.

From Emily Brontë by Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)