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have pity

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“Somehow they had pity on the farmers but they didn’t have pity on the Indians,” he said.

She doesn’t have pity parties.

Heartbroken and at a loss to help her, Williams listened to all the experienced riders, who told him: Have pity!

“O aunt! have pity! Forgive me! I cannot endure it—let me be punished some other way! I shall be killed if—”

But I see people gaily trotting along in flip-flops or sandals, dependent on their cellphones, often lost — gasp! no GPS! — and it’s a little hard to have pity for them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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