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Assist me, Heaven, Or, better still, ye fiercest spirits aid me, Bride of Du Nois! myself despised, or worse, Pitied perhaps by both! held in contempt By Richemont too, and taunted for my weakness!

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

Some, like myself, are still found in "Hall," Pitied by those we meet, And who pray that their end it may never be To sit in the ancients' seat.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 by Various

He cheer'd my sorrows, and, for sums of gold, The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold; Pitied the woes a parent underwent, And sent me back in safety from his tent.'

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Pitied you rather, as one whose noble nature has fallen into trammels.

From Veranilda by Gissing, George

Pitied, surely, and for the rest let us leave them to Him who knoweth all things.

From The Ascent of the Soul by Bradford, Amory H.