Then she asks me if I don't think I was a "little hard on the Taurus woman," and goes on to reveal plainly that her tears were those of self-pity.

Then turned he to his bed that stood beside the window and forthwith began to arm himself; but with every lace he drew, with every strap he buckled, he sighed amain and his self-pity waxed the mightier.

But I knew I would be suspected," he added, in a tone of self-pity.

But he was in trouble and filled with self-pity.

One's bread and onions" he added, with a dramatic gesture of self-pity.

Self-pity warmed him and loosened his fierceness.

is you los' yo' way?" He stroked the little head with a rush of self-pity.

' There was much self-pity in Teddy's tone.

It is this combination of extremes which is the life and soul of the whole poem; you have this world in the next; the same persons, passions, remembrances, intensified by superhuman despairs or beatitudes; the speechless entrancements of bliss, the purgatorial trials of hope and patience; the supports of hate and anger (such as they are) in hell itself; nay, of loving despairs, and a self-pity made unboundedly pathetic by endless suffering.

Last of all, he had quite simply and without one vitiating trace of self-pity, explained himself, luminously, so that it was as if she had known him all her life.

Some men, she thought, would have hidden their own self-pity under the excuse of the necessity of being kind to her.

The tears in Elinor's eyes were not altogether of self-pity when she put her back to the window.

In 1892 Gissing was already beginning to try and discard his down look, his lugubrious self-pity, his lamentable cadence.

I remember some of his words, though I cannot give them his white heat of passion, nor the infinite pathos of his self-pity.

Yet I had no contempt for him as he gibbered with self-pity.

We never hear her sad voice raised in self-pity or revolt.

That is their burden, and with the heroic Belgians to inspire them, without a whimper or a whine of self-pity, they are bearing their burden.

I remembered now that my affections as well as my passions had drained out of me, leaving scarce anything but a tranquil resignation, a dreg of self-pity.

Or I feel a sort of self-pity.

Neither of them could speak a word, or break the holy silence; and as he patted their heads and cheeks, his own tears flowed fast in sympathy and self-pity.

When tormenting thoughts, thoughts of fear, thoughts of unjust deeds of others done to you, thoughts of self-pity, anxiety, doubts, unforgiveness, mistrust of God, or evil of all kinds appear to take up your thoughts, just resist them and point to the blood on the door of your heart.

Bart turned, without the remotest touch of self-pity, to face it, with a heart as cold and dark as the night that swallowed him up.

But the moral is, if I may say so: Be afraid of self-pity and dignity and self-respectdon't be afraid of happiness and simplicity and kindness.

His voice broke, but not for self-pity.

My youth grew dim; somehow I felt a self-pity.