"Pitying" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... victor, mighty lord! Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford 65 A tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable warrior fled? Thy son is gone. He rests among the dead. The swarm that in thy noontide beam were born? Gone to salute the rising ...
— Select Poems of Thomas Gray • Thomas Gray
... Maggie in a pitying sort of way. "I admit," she said, "that first-class honors would be a very graceful crown of bay to encircle that young head; and yet, Maggie, yet— surely ...
— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade
... who wouldst teach men of Love! Hast thou passed through the place of despair? Hast thou wept through the dark night of grief? does it move (Now freed from its sorrow and care) Thy human heart to pitying gentleness, Looking on wrong, ...
— The Way of Peace • James Allen
... perhaps evil blood, and her evil life seemed to be inevitable. Poor child of sin, whose very beauty was thy curse, let the curtain fall upon thy fate and name; we leave thee in the hands of the pitying Christ, who hath said, "Where little is given little will be required." Little was given thee in the way of opportunity, for it was a mother's hand that bound thee with the chains ...
— California Sketches, Second Series • O. P. Fitzgerald
... stealing through the crowd, Now pale as death, then blush'd and bow'd, Panting—and faltering—humm'd and ha'd, "Her ladyship was gone abroad: The captain too—he did not know Whether he ought to stay or go;" Begg'd she'd forgive him. In conclusion, My lady, pitying his confusion, Call'd her good nature to relieve him; Told him, she thought she might believe him; And would not only grant his suit, But visit him, and eat some fruit, Provided, at a proper time, He told the real truth in rhyme; ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
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