Piteously

"Piteously" in a Sentence (5 examples)

I looked about me and found, close to the forest, a helpless babe, lying quite naked upon the grasses and wailing piteously.

He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.

Across her mind, and bowing over him, Low to her own heart piteously she said:

Little Sea and Desire would wail piteously over my body for a day, and then I should be quickly forgotten.

Adam himself bewildered and Eveless outside the garden; a Minotaur howling piteously in a labyrinth of money-worries.

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