Eksempler på piteous

• Many persons come to my offices with piteous tales.

• His tone is matter of fact and not piteous, and his book is all the more powerful for that.

• We have done all kinds of things for this most unfortunate and piteous class of women.

• You can always get up and make a piteous and pathetic appeal, but do not let us be carried away by sentiment.

• Some demands, some claims, some piteous appeals there will always be, do what you will.

• It was a most piteous case of a governess who had an illegitimate child.

• The state of a large number of the annuitants was piteous.

• So much for the cuts and the piteous plight of young people denied their place in education that we were told about.

• I have heard most piteous complaints by representatives of local authorities that this or that authority is being badly treated.

• There were piteous scenes as young men and women were taken away from their homes.

• And surely the talk about a fall in prices is a most piteous argument.

• Taken on that view alone, this amount is piteous.

• But is the tale of the yard quite as piteous as has been made out?

• It will not help our constituents when they come to us and make their piteous and pathetic appeals.

• This council can testify to the piteous character of some of the cases which are postponed from month to month.