Sentence Examples

1. The pigeons appeared distressed in the extreme, and struggled to escape while the cat mewed piteously, and, with her tongue hanging out of her mouth, staggered to and fro in the car as if under the influence of poison.
2. Therefore never regard so piteously thy tail it will undoubtedly be draggled in the mud, and for this there is no help.
3. The youth could see that the soles of his shoes had been worn to the thinness of writing paper, and from a great rent in one the dead foot projected piteously.
4. He, when he saw his daughter there, began to sigh piteously, and still more when he perceived that I held her closely embraced and that she lay quiet without resisting or complaining, or showing any reluctance nevertheless he remained silent lest they should carry into effect the repeated threats the renegade had addressed to him.
5. Zoraida cried aloud to us to save him, and we all hastened to help, and seizing him by his robe we drew him in half drowned and insensible, at which Zoraida was in such distress that she wept over him as piteously and bitterly as though he were already dead.