| Don't get me wrong: I was also piteously grateful that years of paying virtually everything I earned in rent were behind me. |
| The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. |
| Vanya is too scared to jump, and stays up there, cold and shaking until his mother comes to rescue him, whereupon he weeps piteously. |
| Morgan shuffled along, as if a cripple, his feet dragging piteously on the floor. |
| The wounded with the parching thirst of haemorrhage upon them called piteously for water. |
| Sometimes he makes poor choices and finds himself marooned atop the kitchen cabinets, mewling piteously in my direction. |
