1 The two girls stood looking after the Zouave who was moving toward the group of elderly ladies in the corner, Scarlett defiant, Melanie with a look more pitiful than tears.
2 Well, she'd make up some pitiful story about a soldier in the hospital who needed it and Rhett need never know the truth.
3 The skeletons and corpses, flung helterskelter among their splintered caskets, lay exposed and so pitiful.
4 His old black face was as pitiful as a child's under its mother's disapproval, his dignity collapsed.
5 She wondered how he could jest so blithely with a rope about his neck and her pitiful circumstances before him.
6 A pitiful and tawdry love-affair.
7 She pitied herself that her romance should be pitiful; she sighed that in this colorless hour, to this austere self, it should seem tawdry.
8 No one big enough or pitiful enough to sacrifice for.
9 I've been forgetting that Main Street doesn't think it's in the least lonely and pitiful.
10 The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.
11 Neither grandmother nor I could go out in the storm, so Jake fed the chickens and brought in a pitiful contribution of eggs.
12 The tormentors were flies sucking insolently at his blood, and he thought that he would have given his life for a revenge of seeing their faces in pitiful plights.
13 The poor victims of the sale, who had been brought up in one place together for years, gathered round the despairing old mother, whose agony was pitiful to see.
14 When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.
15 If it must be so, the country will have reason to tremble, when it remembers that the fate of nations is in the hands of One who is very pitiful, and of tender compassion.