piteous
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They have the acute feeling for country sights & sounds at which Anglo-Saxon poets are supposed to excel: for them the air often seems freesia-sweet, Piteous, to eye and ear, as a lamb's bleat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Piteous weeping wears away her cheeks: but no more piteous than Odysseus’ tears, cloaked as they were, now, from the company.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
Piteous, passionate words came quickly from her overcharged and almost breaking heart—words, tender, touching,—full of love, and absolutely free from all reproach.
From Thelma by Corelli, Marie
Piteous as was the peace for Liege and the province at large, still more piteous was the lot of Dinant which alone was excluded from the participation in the treaty.
From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Putnam, Ruth
Onward with blind rebellious breast I ranged, with love, with bale opprest, Piteous, passionate, all unblest, The dispossessëd,—God-possest ...
From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan
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An Excerpt from "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
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