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    1. him without his intervention, and he pitied anyone else


    2. ‘Because he was alone and I pitied him


    3. The man wasn’t to be pitied -- he was brilliant


    4. She pitied him deeply


    5. humans are to be pitied and looked after, but dogs don’t real y respect us and without


    6. pitied: he has knocked down in his anger the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has


    7. fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied, and he has caused your enemy


    8. day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied


    9. Who have neither reverenced the ancient, nor pitied children, and have carried away the beloved of the widow, and have


    10. 21 Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the High Priest

    11. 3 Then Lamech pitied him, and he said, "Truly, he when alone, might be overpowered by the men of this place


    12. They have had dominion over us that hated us and struck us; And to those who hated us we have bowed our necks but they pitied us not


    13. 43 And the young woman cried out on account of the bees, but no one took notice of her or pitied her, and her cries ascended to Heaven


    14. 19 And the task-masters of Egypt did so to the babes of Israel for many days, and no one pitied or had compassion over the babes of the children of Israel


    15. 3 Then Lamech pitied him and he said "Truly he when alone might be overpowered by the men of this place


    16. I’m not on a separate boat, alone and out at sea, to be pitied and


    17. Rather than pitied


    18. 43 And the young woman cried out on account of the bees but no one took notice of her or pitied her and her cries ascended to Heaven


    19. marked as "less than," and were one to be pitied


    20. 19 And the task-masters of Egypt did so to the babes of Israel for many days and no one pitied or had compassion over the babes of the children of Israel

    21. truly pitied the laborers


    22. 21 Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts and the fear of the High Priest being in such an agony


    23. Many thought she had lost her sanity and pitied her


    24. Legless, armless, missing genitals… all were maimed, but on Monday afternoons for a few hours they threw off their fear of ridicule and no one pitied them or wept insincere tears… here they were normal men again


    25. So far as her "bale of hay" figure was concerned, she had pitied herself so much for her lack of friends that she took little interest in herself, physical y


    26. He really pitied Pilate and sincerely endeavored to enlighten his darkened mind


    27. who wept and pitied Him; for the


    28. should really be pitied


    29. As he watched his parents’ car drive away until the snow blocked the sight of it, his grandfather pitied him


    30. I pitied him as I did John

    31. spoken about behind her back and in many instances pitied


    32. in black, broken and pitied and lovely, finding solace in the arms of some handsome


    33. It was only those who avoided challenges and death that were pitied, and those rarely competed in the gene pool


    34. shudder and pitied the person that Gary got hold of first


    35. Azura saw that Darek was pretty upset over the matter and pitied him


    36. She imagined what it would be like to hear no answer and pitied the dragon


    37. “Fatmother, how much do you hate taxes?” For three years now, now that she was ten and of the age of Emancipation of the Advanced, Guvney had pitied her Fatmother and only been compliant to her desires to produce a Randian prodigy out of an evermore radical reconception of compassion


    38. So, prophet Ayyub (pth) suffered hard conditions of extreme sorrow and worry out of his high mercy and he pitied their sorrowful conditions a lot and then called his Provider complaining to Him as in the holy Verse


    39. ’ He gave a small smile, and I realised that I pitied him – that I have always pitied him, and I felt awful


    40. When one's belief is the impoverishment and suffering of the majority of the Earth for one's personal indulgence, must people support your desire to persecute and exterminate others? The wealthy are not hated for their wealth, but pitied for their lack of humanity, feared for their pandemic contagion, and loved in spite of their indifference, excess, and idolatry of that which is killing all

    41. Looking at him with disdain and anger swelling in me, I pitied him for his immoral ineptitude and lack of dignity, notwithstanding his age and the level he has attained in the society


    42. I pitied him


    43. Do you, then, want to be pitied? I will pity you if you like, in so many carefully chosen words; but they will not be words from the heart but only, as the charming little child in the flat below us, the child with the flaunting yellow hair and audacious eyes, said of some speech that didn't ring true to her quick ears, 'from the tip of the nose


    44. At this point he began to be able to say "Poor girl," and to feel that he pitied her


    45. The childless woman was a pitied creature


    46. Wouldn't she hate it if she thought he pitied her for her failings? Let him be angry with her failings, but not pity her


    47. He would be either pitied or blamed for his daughter's depravity


    48. When we were cast out in the open field, and no eye pitied us, thou sawest us polluted in our own blood, and thou saidst unto us, Live; yea, thou saidst unto us, Live; and the time was a time of love


    49. And she was pitied


    50. The large man, still in his bedclothes, pitied two shaking Kyboes tucked in







































    1. There is a sad look in her eyes, like she pities me


    2. 13 Like as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him


    3. But he pities the man who is


    4. And so it pities me


    5. including the doctor who patiently tells her she isn't invisible-and pities


    6. “For pities sake!” he shouted shoving the cut-out over


    7. There is always, you know, a secret satisfaction in the soul of him who pities


    8. 'Oh Charlotte,' I cried, seized her arm convulsively, struggling in the very clutches of Fate, 'what--what a good idea! And what a thousand pities that it can't be managed! You see it is a victoria, and there are only two places because of all the luggage, so that we can't use the little seat, or Gertrud might have sat on that----'


    9. Williamson says that on these occasions he always pities most the mothers of the mothers


    10. However startling the statement, the finite will, erring and rebelling, is represented as setting in eternal opposition to each other the attributes of God—the righteousness which prompts to swift judgment as an eternal necessity of the Divine Nature,—and the grace which remembers mercy and pities the victims of Satanic envy

    11. `But it's a thousand pities


    12. that he pities you, and consequently you are saved


    13. It was a thousand pities a young fellow, blessed with an allowance of brains as his neighbour obviously was, should waste his valuable time with profligate women who might present him with a nice dose to last him his lifetime


    14. He watches me intently, his eyebrows pitched, as if—as if he pities me


    15. Then said Christian to his companion, It pities me much for this poor man, it will certainly go ill with him at last


    16. Decoud thought that it was a thousand pities the wretch had not died of fright


    17. It’s a thousand pities Miss Elliot’s not with us


    18. "Well, a little more, or a little less, 'twas a thousand pities that it should have happened to she, of all others


    19. It was a thousand pities, indeed; it was impossible for even an enemy to feel otherwise on looking at Tess as she sat there, with her flower-like mouth and large tender eyes, neither black nor blue nor


    20. 'Twould be a thousand pities if he were to tole her away again

    21. "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


    22. When immortal Bunyan makes his picture of the persecuting passions bringing in their verdict of guilty, who pities Faithful? That is a rare and blessed lot which some greatest men have not attained, to know ourselves guiltless before a condemning crowd—to be sure that what we are denounced for is solely the good in us


    23. thousand pities to throw away such a chance of fun


    24. It is a thousand pities that he has not found the lost child


    25. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? 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? You would not call it murder if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands


    26. Luckily our landlady pities us for the sake of Christ, or else I do not know how we should have lived until now


    27. “Of course, there are all sorts among them, and naturally one pities them


    28. And the greatest work of art is no longer a cathedral of victory[119] with statues of conquerors, but the representation of a human soul so transformed by love that a man who is tormented and murdered yet pities and loves his persecutors


    29. It is ten thousand pities that the enthusiasm and real artistic fervor of this undaunted, farseeing manager should be shadowed by this association


    1. Pity her job took her away, though I think that she might have been willing to tell them where they could put their job if Stephen had suggested that they get married


    2. "A pity," doostEr said, remembering the picture


    3. "Such a pity it is a crime that will take me back to that beautiful country


    4. This is a pity, I would have liked to see the scene myself


    5. cried and said:”it is a pity we cannot give him a painkiller, because it


    6. A pity, he thought


    7. ‘It’s a pity you have to work, Liz, otherwise you could look after him for her


    8. rancid cheeses, the occasional slice of meat if the farmer took pity on him, thick,


    9. It is pity that people search for their


    10. "She's told me why you're jealous of her on the ground," Herndon retorted, "so I pity you and will take this abuse from you

    11. The passengers gave a collective snort of pity and laughter


    12. ‘It’s a pity you’ve got such a small part


    13. ‘Yes, it’s a pity they don’t lay the hedges properly any more


    14. No matter how tired I was though, the play of image, anger, self pity and bleak determination ran unremittingly through the hours


    15. It was a pity that no-one had thought it worthwhile to worry that the skirting boards didn’t line up where the dividing wall had obviously been taken out


    16. Twenty years of living on hard and rancid cheeses, the occasional slice of meat if the farmer took pity on him, thick, heavy bread, wild legumes and mushrooms, and, out of preference, jugs of the cheapest, roughest wines


    17. It is such a pity they never met


    18. Neither age nor sex inspired pity


    19. Such a pity you have not worn it


    20. “It’s a pity we have to go

    21. 'It's a pity you had to wait so long


    22. Mental illness is no more severe than any other human flaw and to pity us or to belittle us is an insult to someone with most likely a lot of potential behind that wall of mental blockage


    23. It was at that moment the gods took pity on this simple, ignorant Cornishman


    24. By the look on his face, Rayne could see he was truly distressed; she took pity on him and followed him to the coach


    25. 'It's a pity we can't get a mobile signal here, we could've called Nikos


    26. way to the strongest feelings of pity


    27. What a pity – it’s far too large; it’ll have to be sold with the rest of the stuff


    28. Knowing the Elders as she did she could not help but take pity on the frightened boy


    29. Pity Philip's letter isn't here though


    30. Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and

    31. 33Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity


    32. Pity … though having said that, the brilliant thing about Danvers House is the personal aspect, the tenants are not mere numbers on a page but people … it would be difficult to do that on a larger scale, I suppose


    33. combination of pity and jealousy


    34. Billy lets the moment of self pity break over him


    35. She gave the young man a moment to relinquish the sleeve still tight in his fingers then stated clearly and loud enough for his mates and anyone one else out at that time to hear, “You will keep a civil tongue in your foul little mouth, or there's more where that came from! Don't even begin to tell any one else about 'manners!' I don't know from whose foolish talk you picked up that misapplied epithet, but you will do well to remember this: you and your little friends are not even civilized humans yet and until you learn to treat others as you would be treated, I pity you the knocks and bruises in store for you, and not just at the hands of a 'woman' next time;” she glared at them one at a time, “Now get on back to your homes and don't even think of repeating such a foolish stunt!” she added


    36. No, that would be silly after they had got so far … those reports of Andy’s seemed to show that they were pretty close now … it would be a pity to waste all their effort


    37. The tall man next to him, who had listened to the entire exchange from when the Sportsman and his friends returned and left, said simply, “He thinks he's Buffalo Bill Cody, and he's right! You didn't recognize him? He's in the papers often enough?” The tall man shook his head in pity at the shopkeeper and walked away


    38. ” The older man looked at him with genuine and most sincere sorrow in his eyes that might easily be taken for pity


    39. He stood swaying and waved his arms plaintively, hoping against hope that the driver would take pity on him and give him a lift


    40. You didn't want to have revealed, so publicly your own formidable skill; lest you might be cast in the same mold as those you so pity for their own lack of depth

    41. Pity it has taken so long


    42. husband a look of what was almost pity


    43. Lin was really kind and took pity on me whenever I ran out of cash (which was fairly often), inviting me round to her place where her mum would feed me


    44. have felt a pang of pity for him


    45. 18Then the LORD was jealous for his land and took pity on his people


    46. noticed her reaction and felt a pang of pity


    47. the woman was doing and thinking, and felt a pang of pity


    48. meal,’ said Collette, with pity rather than contempt


    49. It’s a pity that we have to go home tomorrow


    50. Magistrate, feeling pity for the witness














































    1. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set


    2. ’ Philippe gave him a pitying


    3. He was so overcome by pitying distaste that he drew his hand back and flung it towards himself


    4. It seems that Jesus did not like the idea of pitying the poor, due to those that are poor,


    5. Sure he had his charm and was forever attentive to her wishes, but a family dog had those qualities too and lately she’d found herself pitying him


    6. of all, came forward: 2 whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren, 3 Seeing him already


    7. 1 When he too had undergone blessed martyrdom and died in the caldron into which he had been thrown the seventh the youngest of all came forward: 2 whom the tyrant pitying though he had been dreadfully reproached by his brethren 3 Seeing him already encompassed with chains had him brought nearer and endeavoured to counsel him saying 4 You see the end of the madness of your brethren for they have died in torture through disobedience and you if disobedient having been miserably tormented will yourself perish prematurely


    8. of Thy pitying mercy, that, with his bodily health


    9. Pitying for others, but I only felt outraged


    10. He surveyed them and, with a pitying gesture, tenderly said: "Sleep on now and take your rest; the time of decision is past

    11. And pitying tears, not scorn and wrath,


    12. What reason did he have for pitying me, he thought


    13. Remedios the Beauty, who was clutching the sheet by the other end, gave a pitying smile


    14. Amaran-ta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final analysis as the most tender woman who had ever existed, and she understood with pitying clarity that the unjust tortures to which she had submitted Pietro Crespi had not been dictated by a desire for vengeance, as everyone had thought, nor had the slow martyrdom with which she had frustrated the life of Colonel Gerineldo Márquez been determined by the gall of her bitterness, as everyone had thought, but that both actions had been a mortal struggle between a measureless love and an invincible cowardice, and that the irrational fear that Amaranta had always had of her own tormented heart had triumphed in the end


    15. The woman measured him with a pitying look


    16. Nevertheless, even the most pitying purchaser was getting a chance to win a pig for twenty cents or a calf for thirty-two, and they became so hopeful that on Tuesday nights Petra Cotes’s courtyard overflowed with people waiting for the moment when a child picked at random drew the winning number from a bag


    17. The priest measured him with a pitying look


    18. After this journey into hell the poor victims slowly made their painful way back behind the curtain, I had to mentally stop myself from pitying them, Coatl called them all back and thanked them for the performance we had just witnessed


    19. The effect is that poor Ichiro is subjected to dramatic pitying looks, without being given any actual help


    20. He was always in control, always motivated, determined, steadfast, instead now, he had turned into this self pitying, confused man, that had no sense of direction, was out of ideas, and gravely mistaken regarding those around him

    21. Guinevere painted a distressed, pitying expression onto her face and sat on the very edge


    22. I remembered the words Zeeshan had told me about the pitying condition of these people


    23. What word should I use to describe the pitying life they were living? Their life was no different than the lives of pigs that live in muds


    24. Why, I still have too much; and here are you pitying me because I have not more when I am distracted by all the claims on my attention


    25. You let it live while pitying its existence


    26. If an officious friend had stood in that breathless couple's path and told them in glowing terms how much happier they would be if they lived their life a little more fully and from its other sides, how much more delightful to stride along gaily together in their walks, with wind enough for talk and laughter, how pleasant if the man were muscular and in good condition and the woman brisk and wiry, and that they only had to do as he did and live on cold meat and toast, and drink nothing, to be as blithe as birds, do you think they would have so much as understood him? Cold meat and toast? Instead of what they had just been enjoying so intensely? Miss that soup made of the inner mysteries of geese, those eels stewed in beer, the roast pig with red cabbage, the venison basted with sour cream and served with beans in vinegar and cranberry jam, the piled-up masses of vanilla ice, the pumpernickel and cheese, the apples and pears on the top of that, and the big cups of coffee and cakes on the top of the apples and pears? Really a quick walk over the heather with a wiry wife would hardly make up for the loss of such a dinner; and besides, might not a wiry wife turn out to be a questionable blessing? And so they would pity the nimble friend who wasted his life in taking exercise and missed all its pleasures, and the man of toast and early rising would regard them with profound disgust if simple enough to think himself better than they, and, if he possessed an open mind, would merely return their pity with more of his own; so that, I suppose, everybody would be pleased, for the charm of pitying one's neighbour, though subtle, is undeniable


    27. "Listen to her!" cried Tussie, interrupting his kissing of her hands to look up at Priscilla and smile with a sort of pitying wonder, "Let you go? Does one let one's life go? One's hope of salvation go? One's little precious minute of perfect happiness go? When I'm well again I shall be just as dull and stupid as ever, just such a shy fool, not able to speak--"


    28. But I doubted very much that the direction Maguire seemed to be heading would involve my getting all self pitying again


    29. "It's better than being on the end of pitying ones


    30. Her voice is sad, almost pitying

    31. year, and will look back with a pitying smile to your former condition


    32. He points outside and gives me a pitying look


    33. While sneering and pitying all other people who are less lucky


    34. Tyrese sent him a pitying look for speaking without thinking


    35. When her husband was brought in, she turned a look upon him, so sustaining, so encouraging, so full of admiring love and pitying tenderness, yet so courageous for his sake, that it called the healthy blood into his face, brightened his glance, and animated his heart


    36. At breakfast she neither ate, nor attempted to eat any thing; and Elinor's attention was then all employed, not in urging her, not in pitying her, nor in appearing to regard her, but in endeavouring to engage Mrs


    37. The landlady looked at him de haut en bas, rather pitying, and at the same time, resenting his clear, fierce morality


    38. His chief reward for the painful exertion of disclosing past sorrows and present humiliations, was given in the pitying eye with which Marianne sometimes observed him, and the gentleness of her voice whenever (though it did not often happen) she was obliged, or could oblige herself to speak to him


    39. If you consider, I said, that when in misfortune we feel a natural hunger and desire to relieve our sorrow by weeping and lamentation, and that this feeling which is kept under control in our own calamities is satisfied and delighted by the poets;--the better nature in each of us, not having been sufficiently trained by reason or habit, allows the sympathetic element to break loose because the sorrow is another's; and the spectator fancies that there can be no disgrace to himself in praising and pitying any one who comes telling him what a good man he is, and making a fuss about his troubles; he thinks that the pleasure is a gain, and why should he be supercilious and lose this and the poem too? Few persons ever reflect, as I should imagine, that from the evil of other men something of evil is communicated to themselves


    40. Pleased however with, and pitying the taking she could feel me in, she

    41. pitying angel, drop out of the clouds: for he was young and perfectly


    42. infinitely superior joys of innocence, I could not help pitying, even in


    43. The imp gave him a kind but pitying look


    44. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief


    45. Then, as if pitying a want of skill which had proved so fortunate to himself, he smiled, and muttered a few words of contempt in his own tongue


    46. Poor Danglars looked so crest-fallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him


    47. His heavy pitying gaze absorbed her news


    48. Ghost of a mother,—thinnest fantasy of a mother,—methinks she might yet have thrown a pitying glance towards her son! And now, through the chamber which these spectral thoughts had made so ghastly, glided Hester Prynne, leading along little Pearl, in her scarlet garb, and pointing her forefinger, first at the scarlet letter on her bosom, and then at the clergyman's own breast


    49. He knew that it was himself, the thin and white-cheeked minister, who had done and suffered these things, and written thus far into the Election Sermon! But he seemed to stand apart, and eye this former self with scornful, pitying, but half-envious curiosity


    50. He seemed to me no other than a pitying angel, dropt out of the clouds: for he was young and perfectly handsome, which was more than even I had asked for, man, in general, being all that my utmost desires had pointed at




























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    Synonyms for "pity"

    compassion pity shame commiseration pathos ruth compassionate condole with feel for sympathize with commiserate condole comfort leniency rue charity condolence mercy

    "pity" definitions

    a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others


    an unfortunate development


    the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it


    share the suffering of