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When someone is pitying, that's the end of the conversation for me.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2021

That old mother of mine is pitying herself, and she would like to play too.

From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Rudder, Robert S.

“I do believe Janet is pitying me a little, because of the minister’s inconstancy,” she said to herself.

From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

"And death is pitying come, whose hand shall tear   "From this afflicted heart the sense of pain; "My fainting limbs refuse their load to bear,   "And life no longer will my form sustain.

From Poems (1786), Volume I. by Williams, Helen Maria

And, all the time, she is pitying me for exactly the same reason!

From An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, Bernard