"Pitiful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with his pitiful tale, Till Vulcan the weapon restored; "There, take it, young sir; try it now—if it fail, I will ask neither fee nor reward." The urchin shot out, and rare havoc he made, The wounded and dead were untold; But no wonder ...
— Successful Recitations • Various
... Rosalynde, who, poor soul, was as hotly burned as himself, but that she shrouded her pains in the cinders of honorable modesty. Whereupon, guessing him to be in love, and according to the nature of their sex being pitiful in that behalf, they suddenly brake off his melancholy by their approach, and Ganymede shook him out of his ...
— Rosalynde - or, Euphues' Golden Legacy • Thomas Lodge
... Fisher, now as cold as that stone she had got up from, "is the pose of the modern young woman. It seems to me pitiful, ...
— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim
... back, in the little, hysterical, defiant note she left under the door. Her father and mother must wait and not worry. There are thousands of homes, I suppose, in which are buried just such letters as Minnie's farewell to her parents; rebellious, passionate, yearning, pitiful. Ah, well! The moth must break its chrysalis. The flower must rend its bonds toward the light. Little Minnie was "going on the stage." A garish and perilous stage it was, whereon Innocence plays a part as sorry as it is brief. And now ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... would be. You are not hard. You couldn't be. You must come close day by day in your life to so much that is pitiful. One can talk to you and you'll understand. This is my first chance, the first real chance I have ever had, ...
— Witness For The Defense • A.E.W. Mason
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