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I had been pitying myself for not having books to read, and now I saw children who had never read a book.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Julian had been pitying Colin and Neil, "pawns in the great game."

From The Messenger by Robins, Elizabeth

Virginie stroked her own chestnut head, as if she had been pitying another, and began humming a little Norman air, with a refrain that sounded like the murmur of a brook over the stones.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

To every one's astonishment the blood began to flow again in the veins of the once invincible chief, and those who had been pitying the young medicine man began to congratulate him on his triumph.

From My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young by Cox, James

While Rosamund was speaking he had been pitying Guy.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe