pitied

Example Sentences

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Even the lone Siren on the neighbouring isle Pitied the lover's tears.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Pitied you rather, as one whose noble nature has fallen into trammels.

From Veranilda by Gissing, George

He cheer'd my sorrows, and, for sums of gold, The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold; Pitied the woes a parent underwent, And sent me back in safety from his tent.'

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

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

Some, like myself, are still found in "Hall," Pitied by those we meet, And who pray that their end it may never be To sit in the ancients' seat.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various