Ryan inquired with false innocence, in a particularly piteous attempt to play dumb. |
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The court proved immune to these piteous cries and upheld the sentence, anyway. |
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So I'm bent by such grievous tortures, painful to suffer, piteous to behold. |
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Your piteous tribe has committed more to the eternal life and bliss after death then your life here and now. |
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This same mother will also tell you not to cut the tree, for it will bleed real blood during the night and cry out with a piteous wail. |
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As the end neared, she lapsed into a semi-consciousness of raving and then piteous wailing. |
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She had a hundred years experience when you were still a piteous little child! |
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The songbirds had returned, but their calls sounded ever so plaintive and piteous. |
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He was crying into his lovely black feathers a piteous sound that tore at Star's heart. |
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He'd long forgotten most of the words of this piteous lament, but that was no obstacle. |
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With this super warm and cozy collar kids will be able to play, and you won't be afraid to find the scarf trampled and in a piteous state. |
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Boromir's attempted martyrdom was a bit self piteous to be sympathetic. |
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There isn't a hint of jousting, sacred quests or piteous damsels. |
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She twisted her hands miserably, with a piteous expression on her face. |
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Your efforts never fail to leave me laughing at your piteous attempts. |
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The girl uttered a cry, long, tremulous, heart-rending, piteous. |
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The piteous 11 per cent conviction rate has to be explained somehow. |
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She frowns softly, more of a piteous look than a displeased one. |
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Tears and piteous pleas about getting up at 3.30am in Seattle to catch my first flight seemed unlikely to advance my cause. |
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This is the excuse, the crutch, the piteous and finally pathetic defense of Negrophiles unable or willing to face reality. |
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From beneath the dusty, smoking slabs of collapsed concrete, piteous American voices could be heard, begging for help. |
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It flops about in a piteous manner, at the same time crying kill-dee-dee-ee as though in mortal pain. |
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Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight. |
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Henceforth no effort of mine,no piteous cry or agonized entreaty, would make them even look at me. |
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Their situation is truly piteous, but I think it is our duty to end their suffering. |
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The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door. |
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Her piteous mooings caught the ear of a hungry old he-bear which was hunting in the woods near by. |
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Fifty yards from our house is a piteous shrine to 14-year-old Alan Cartwright who was pushed off his bicycle and murdered by another child, with a single stab to the heart. |
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Anna Maxwell Martin's intriguing Lady Macbeth tries to brazen it out with a show of socially practised brusqueness, until in mad remorse, her piteous cradling of a phantom baby suggests the root of the problem. |
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No suggestions, no words, no bewailings could improve it. Still it was very human to make suggestions, and utter words, and make piteous bewailings over and over again. |
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