was pitying
- past progressive of pity.
Example Sentences
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“And I was pitying you having jaundice. Pity is something that is wasted on you.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
He was pitying her and offering her a way out of her supposed dilemma, offering to assist her in some of his own kind of deception.
From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston
He had an instinctive sense that she knew as well as he did what he had come there for, and was pitying him—an inference in which he was quite correct.
From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah
His hands were moving uncontrollably, and Elsie discovered with a curious pang that she was pitying him and admiring the stern young soldier who stood quietly waiting for an opportunity to speak.
From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin
It came to him through those words which he did not understand that she was pitying him; and stung to the quick, he drew back from her, frowning, with an angry toss of his head.
From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
