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1  Tell all, and I WILL pity you.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
2  He looked towards her with pitying surprise.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
3  Tis a pity to make two chimleycorners where there need be only one.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
4  It was the pitiful sight of a man standing in the very focus of sorrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
5  Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
6  Mental luminousness must be fed with the oil of life, even though there is already a physical need for it; and the pitiful sight of two demands on one supply was just showing itself here.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
7  There was a forlorn look about her beautiful eyes which, whether she deserved it or not, would have excited pity in the breast of anyone who had known her during the full flush of her love for Clym.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
8  He could not help feeling that it would be a pitiful waste of sweet material if the tender-natured thing should be doomed from this early stage of her life onwards to dribble away her winsome qualities on lonely gorse and fern.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
9  Anyone who had stood by now would have pitied her, not so much on account of her exposure to weather, and isolation from all of humanity except the mouldered remains inside the tumulus; but for that other form of misery which was denoted by the slightly rocking movement that her feelings imparted to her person.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November