pitiableness

Example Sentences

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To complete the pitiableness of her aspect, she shivered either with cold, or fear, or nervous excitement, so that you might have beheld her shadow vibrating on the fire-lighted wall.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Oh, the pitiableness of man's colossal conceit, the arrogance of his ignorance.

From Quit Your Worrying! by James, George Wharton

No, no, it was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.

From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Cather, Willa Sibert

It was only a boy's fancy, and your divine pity and my utter pitiableness have recalled it for a moment.

From Youth and the Bright Medusa by Cather, Willa Sibert

And the next was that the only way in which it could be made to appear in its complete pitiableness, would be to write it from the point of view of Tommy Bettersworth.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter