But the Cock expostulated in
piteous tones from his perch: "If you kill me, who will announce to you the appearance of the dawn?
These
piteous wrecks that are my comrades here say we have reached the bottom of the scale, the final humiliation; they say that when a horse is no longer worth the weeds and discarded rubbish they feed to him, they sell him to the bull-ring for a glass of brandy, to make sport for the people and perish for their pleasure.
I was terror-stricken, my voice stuck in my throat, and I was in the deepest distress; nevertheless I summoned up my strength as well as I could, and in a trembling and
piteous voice I addressed such words to him as induced him to stay the infliction of a punishment so severe.
1) Nay, but the piteous tale I've heard men tell Of Tantalus' doomed child, Chained upon Siphylus' high rocky fell, That clung like ivy wild, Drenched by the pelting rain and whirling snow, Left there to pine, While on her frozen breast the tears aye flow-- Her fate is mine.
2) At this thou touchest my most poignant pain, My ill-starred father's piteous disgrace, The taint of blood, the hereditary stain, That clings to all of Labdacus' famed race.
Meanwhile the miser crept out of the bush half-naked and in a
piteous plight, and began to ponder how he should take his revenge, and serve his late companion some trick.
Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty face changed into a winning and
piteous look of fear.
Some faint attempts she had made with blue ribbon, to freshen the appearance of a dingy curtain, she now saw to be
piteous.
And he recalled the timid,
piteous expression with which Anna had said to him at parting: "Anyway, you will see him.
But, as neither of these criminals answered to the name of Oliver, or knew anything about him, Nancy made straight up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat; and with the most
piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered more
piteous by a prompt and efficient use of the street-door key and the little basket, demanded her own dear brother.
But ere he entered his cabin, a light, unnatural, half-bantering, yet most
piteous sound was heard.
But the monkey made such
piteous cries, and seemed so unhappy when anyone attempted to catch him, that the two ladies begged the King to leave him a little longer with them, to which he consented.