For very few things, my dear, are more pitiable than the middle-age of the pitiful butterfly woman, whose mind cannotcannot, because of its very naturereach to anything higher!

Their condition was pitiable in the extreme.

The capital, henceforth, too large for a too small state, carries on amidst the greatest difficulties, and there congregate the most pitiable of the Transylvanian refugees and those from other lost regions.

Not so, she said: but if I really saw nothing exceptionable to a virtuous mind, in that young person's behaviour, my ignorance of better behaviour was, she must needs tell me, as pitiable as hers: and it were to be wished, that minds so paired, for their own sakes should never be separated.

The servitude of a constitutional King, so often a puppet in the hands of the worst and meanest of menthose who prostitute their powers as rulers of a State to their interests as chiefs of a factionmust seem pitiable to any rational manhood.

Strange indeed Are they, and pitiable beyond measure, Who, thus unmindful of their wretchedness, Crowd at life's bountiful gates, like fattening beggars, Greedy and blind.

The Dutch painters, so admirable in their own style, would become pitiable on quitting it for a higher.

A mind and character incomprehensible indeed, if corruption, lassitude, listlessness, and fear would not explain the existence of everything that is abnormal and pitiable about human nature in a feeble, cold, and selfish creature, excited, and at the same time worn out, by the business and the pleasures of kingship, which Henry III.