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

She was tortured by the fear that everyone knew her shame and humiliation and was pitying her.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

She fancied that every woman who looked at her was laughing in her sleeve at her, that every man who bowed or spoke to her was pitying her.

From The Jungle Girl by Casserly, Gordon

While Pauline was pitying me, Eug�ne told me that it was M. Tirande who had told Master Silvain to take me on the farm.

From Marie Claire by Raphael, John N.

I soon saw that he was pitying me and I promptly stepped down to the dining-saloon and tried to appreciate two or three tons of flowers.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley