1 The puppy uttered a piteous yelp.
2 The guest's tone was almost piteous in its appeal.
3 Suddenly the angry, squirrel-like expression of the princess' pretty face changed into a winning and piteous look of fear.
4 But these words came like a piteous, despairing cry and an entreaty for pardon.
5 He asked in a hesitating, piteous voice.
6 They forgot that the frightened face and the figure could not be altered, and that however they might change the setting and adornment of that face, it would still remain piteous and plain.
7 On the Pratzen Heights, where he had fallen with the flagstaff in his hand, lay Prince Andrew Bolkonski bleeding profusely and unconsciously uttering a gentle, piteous, and childlike moan.
8 His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless efforts to seem calm.
9 The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the other sounds, did not cease for a moment.
10 Please get it for me and put it under for a moment, he pleaded in a piteous voice.
11 He made a piteous, frightened face and bent down.
12 It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 13 But ere he entered his cabin, light, unnatural, half-bantering, yet most piteous sound was heard.
14 He paused in piteous anxiety to await his friend's reply.
15 Those pictures of glory were piteous things.