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But for beggars of unrivaled persistency I commend you to Port Said, for with a pitiableness, sincere or assumed, they dog your every footstep.

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Washington, Booker T.

No, no, it was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.

From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert

It was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.

From Youth and the Bright Medusa by Cather, Willa Sibert

To complete the pitiableness of her aspect, she shivered either with cold, or fear, or nervous excitement, so that you might have beheld her shadow vibrating on the fire-lighted wall.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

He had never spoken to her of his childhood, but once a great impulse came over him to tell her the whole; to lay bare before her all the pitiableness of his past.

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Schubin, Ossip