- Pity is a
sympathetic sorrow evoked by the
suffering of others. The word is
comparable to comp****ion, condolence, or empathy. It
derives from the Latin...
- temple-floors with
their dishevelled hair and
lifted up
their hands to
heaven in
piteous entreaty to the gods that they
would deliver the City of Rome out of the...
- Richard, late
mercifully reigning upon us, was
through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the
great heaviness of this City". York Records...
- Full, as, for example, a voce
piena = "in full voice"
pietoso Pitiful,
piteous più More; see
mosso piuttosto Rather,
somewhat (e.g.
allegro piuttosto...
-
depths of **** Caïna
waits for him who took our lives." This was the
piteous tale they
stopped to tell.
Francesca further reports that she and Paolo...
-
repetition of words, as in the
series "pitiable", "pity", "pitied", and "
piteous". A
second typical device is the use of
unusual adjective-noun combinations...
-
Strickland claiming that the
princess and her
sisters were left ‘in a
piteous state.’ However,
modern examination of the
evidence suggests otherwise...
-
Romani woman a few
miles down the road
carrying a
child that was
crying piteously.
Scouts were
immediately dispatched in the
direction indicated, and they...
- of
modified words, as in the
series "pitiable", "pity", "pitied" and "
piteous" (Ch. 81, "The
Pequod Meets the Virgin"). Second, the use of
existing words...
- the
guise of a poor man. In this
guise the
deity is said to have made a
piteous plea to
Srinivasa for
money to
perform his son's 'upanayana'(sacred-thread...
