Piteously Sentence Examples

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  • She curled around her tawdry bag, whining piteously, abject terror in her wide staring eyes. she began to cry.

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  • The flogging was only just over, and the executioner was releasing from the flogging bench a stout man with red whiskers, in blue stockings and a green jacket, who was moaning piteously.

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  • The awful pain he suffered made him moan incessantly and piteously, and his moaning sounded terrible in the darkness of the autumn night.

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  • The peasants went up and took him by his shoulders and legs, but he moaned piteously and, exchanging looks, they set him down again.

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  • The first thing he saw on riding up to the space where Tushin's guns were stationed was an unharnessed horse with a broken leg, that lay screaming piteously beside the harnessed horses.

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  • Afterwards in the evening when I gave him his ticket, he again began crying piteously and kissing me.

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  • About the time when he was writing The Mask of Pandora, he could see "in the sunset Jason's fleece of gold," and hear "the waves of the distracted sea piteously calling and lamenting" his lost friend.

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