An ear as big as a man!" I looked still more attentively--and actually there did move under the ear something that was
pitiably small and poor and slim.
After a while she raised her head, and looked at me with wondering eyes that were
pitiably like the eyes of her child.
my unfortunate husband was so hopelessly misguided, so
pitiably wrong!
We have had, and may still have, worse things to tell of him; but none, we apprehend, so
pitiably weak; no evidence, at once so slight and irrefragable, of a subtle disease that had long since begun to eat into the real substance of his character.
Then last I looked at Ready; and he leant invertebrate over the rail, gasping
pitiably from his exertions in regaining the poop, a dying man once more.
Da Souza, a Jewess portly and typical, resplendent in black satin and many gold chains and bangles, occupied the seat of honour, and by her side was a little brown girl, with dark, timid eyes and dusky complexion,
pitiably over-dressed but with a certain elf-like beauty, which it was hard to believe that she could ever have inherited.
Trembling, panting, struggling for breath, the Swift One clung
pitiably to a high thin branch.
Sara Ray also managed to get through respectably, although she was
pitiably nervous.
She trembled
pitiably as she opened the folded note.
She looked
pitiably small and thin in her deep mourning.
Bob knew all about this particular affair, and spoke of the sport with an enthusiasm which no one who is not either divested of all manly feeling, or
pitiably ignorant of rat-catching, can fail to imagine.
This was evidently not one of the forlorn, persecuted,
pitiably dependent order of governesses.