Pitied

Examples

• I told them what a hard master Mr. Creakle was, and they pitied me very much. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have always pitied the delusion, always. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Lily's feelings were softer: she pitied him in a frightened ineffectual way. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She was interesting; she was admirable; she was deeply to be pitied. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• That's a fair young lady to be pitied by and wept for by! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He is to be pitied, ma'am. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It was a hard case, upon my word; and, I do think you were very much to be pitied, were the kind responses of listening sympathy. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Those who do not complain are never pitied. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If it were to be shared with the woman he loved, he could not think any man to be pitied for having that house. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Her bosom was heaving in a distressful manner that I greatly pitied, but I thought it better not to speak. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I pitied--yes, I pitied--the wretched life to which her cold and selfish relations had doomed her. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Now, if the accident had happened at the rectory gates, and old Helstone had taken in the martyr, neither Yorke nor his wife would have pitied him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Archer winced at the joining of the names, and then, with a quick readjustment, understood, sympathised and pitied. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He understood his father and he forgave him everything and he pitied him but he was ashamed of him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Too many a time had I seen him sitting lonely, when he was a poor child, to be pitied, heart and hand! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I pitied Frankenstein; my pity amounted to horror: I abhorred myself. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I pitied her so much. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No, he could not believe it a bad house; not such a house as a man was to be pitied for having. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I was glad to be tenderly remembered, to be gently pitied, not to be quite forgotten. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Reed pitied it; and he used to nurse it and notice it as if it had been his own: more, indeed, than he ever noticed his own at that age. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And when you had read the letter, you pitied the poor creature, and couldn't find it in your heart to suspect her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Miss Bertrams were much to be pitied on the occasion: not for their sorrow, but for their want of it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would ever surmise. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Fanny pitied her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mrs. Gardiner and her niece, however, did her justice, and pitied her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Yet, after this programme of dress, Bacon adds the beautiful trait, 'that he had a look as though he pitied men. Plato. The Republic.
• Sergeant Cuff is much to be pitied. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You are pitied--the victim of magical delusion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If he had not suspected poor Penelope, I should have pitied him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Fanny saw and pitied much of this in Julia; but there was no outward fellowship between them. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

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