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.
