Example Sentences

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If you do," she cried, "the time will come when you will be pitying yourself—for being cast off like an old leather shoe—from one of the most brilliant and attractive circles in this town!

From His Second Wife by Poole, Ernest

"I feel everybody will be pitying you for becoming engaged to a penniless pretender like me," he sighed.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton