Pities

Examples

• It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• To be sure, rejoined his brother; it would be a thousand pities to throw away such a chance of fun. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Yes, 'tis a thousand pities you didn't see me in four! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She pities him, so she is good to him, said Jo, beaming at her from the croquet ground. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• When immortal Bunyan makes his picture of the persecuting passions bringing in their verdict of guilty, who pities Faithful? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is a thousand pities you haven't patience to go and see your uncle more, so proud of you as he is, and wanted you to live with him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At last he said-- It's a thousand pities Christy didn't take to business, Susan. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Whenever he looks my way, he remembers that I have not read ROBINSON CRUSOE since I was a child, and he respectfully pities me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I can sigh over my mournful confession with the tenderest woman who reads it and pities me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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