By making many of the hungry characters children, authors project adult fears on the more pitiable frame of the helpless orphan.
The court cannot ignore the pitiable and helpless condition of the poor residing in villages.
Reminiscences about farmed-out parish paupers, old and young, generally tell about their pitiable fate and harsh treatment.
Throbbing hearts, twitching limbs, the pitiable blanching of cheeks would touch even heartless souls.
Most of them seek compensation and reparation for the oil extracted from their land without commensurate benefits and pitiable social responsibility.
I hear most pitiable and harassing stories of their lot.
I submit that the position of the blinded and disabled officer and man is pitiable in the extreme.
But 10 years' supply of building land is in hand, with a pitiable programme.
