Pitying

The _idea_ of it -- when I think -- after all that was in the paper, and every one talking about it and pitying you -- _pitying_ you, Honor! " ❋ Ruth Comfort Mitchell (1918)

Children should be encouraged in pitying their distress; and if guilty of any violent treatment toward them, they should see that you are grieved and displeased at such conduct. ❋ Unknown (1831)

The Count, making a slight apology, withdrew, and every one joined in pitying the necessity for a separation of two persons so worthy of each other. ❋ Eliza (1793)

Even people for whom smiling was difficult must have smiled at the idea of pitying Katie ❋ Susan Glaspell (1915)

He recalled his pitying scorn for the big, once useless boy during that long period of dog-like watchfulness over the comings and goings of the girl he loved. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

He doesn't sound self-pitying, which is kind of refreshing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But when I found the child was not less fond of me, and drew its soft hand over my face with a kind of pitying protection in its touch, that soon set me up again. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He had grown to have an extreme affection for my wife as well as my little boy; but towards myself, personally, entertained a kind of pitying contempt which always infinitely amused me. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He turned, as he spoke, and looked down on her with a kind of pitying wisdom. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Arachne bestowed the kind of pitying look on Marina that might be given a naughty child who had no notion of what she was saying. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)

The girl gave Harper the kind of pitying look that Sharpe thought she had reserved only for him, and then, without so much as a glance at Sharpe, she scrambled up the slope to lie beside him and peer at the enemy. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (1981)

Every so often Maigret had the feeling that she was looking at him with a kind of pitying indulgence. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1975)

The one tender spot left was a kind of pitying affection for her weak old father. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

There has always been a kind of pitying attitude toward us in Hilton since that Sewall affair of Ruth's, for all my efforts. ❋ Olive Higgins Prouty (1928)

They stared at him with a kind of pitying wonderment. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)

In presence of such madness and such disasters, they treat a Frenchman here with a kind of pitying sympathy. ❋ Ward, Mrs Humphry (1918)

"Surely you don't 'old with not having a bit of music on a Sunday, Mr. Coombes?" said the new guest, leaning back in the arm-chair, blowing a cloud of cigarette smoke and smiling in a kind of pitying way. ❋ Unknown (1906)

"Spent all his money!" remarked the dog seller with a kind of pitying contempt, and drew off toward the door. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

Others, looking at the misfortunes, the poverty, the crimes, of men, have, in a kind of pitying despair, reached the conclusion that the best of all is death. ❋ Unknown (1899)

Some of our cathedrals are set in busy places, in great centres of population, wherein the high towering minster looks down with a kind of pitying compassion upon the toiling folk and invites them to seek shelter and peace and the consolations of religion in her quiet courts. ❋ Unknown (1892)

I pity him so i [walked] over to him and [talked] to him ❋ Askdhksadh (2007)

Me:I made out with a fat chick. [Mr.T]:[I pity the fool] Me: points at self Mr.T:[Nods] head ❋ Jobez (2006)

Sarah: It doesn't look that far. [Jareth]: It's further than you think. Time is short. You have 13 hours in which to solve [the Labyrinth] before your [baby brother] becomes one of us forever. Such a pity. ❋ Ross-Bass (2010)

[Craig] never comes home. [Therefore], Craig is [pitiful]. ❋ Charelle1 (2018)

[Tsk tsk], [what a] [pity]. ❋ Dontknowhim (2009)

[Pity] should be [given] to [noone] ❋ White Kid Who Acts White - Not Black (2004)

[Pity]: something I don't need. Nor should you [give it to me]. Pity: I fell of [my bed] today... OMG IS THE FLOOR OKAY?!?!?!? She [pity] the floor. ❋ Once In A Lifetime (2015)

i'd have pity on your mom for like [two and a half] minutes. [i don't want to] [brag] maybe three. okay, at least five if i was thinking about baseball. ❋ Andy Trevvits (2007)

Brett was in love with a emo [loli] 'scene' girl, but got [cucked]. So [Alison] decided to go on a date with the little Pitied ❋ Ayy Its The Man (2018)

[That's the way] [Piti] will [have it] done ❋ Piti4 (2019)