Which preposition to use with pity

for Occurrences 538%

But he did sleep through it all, and was wakened only by a punch in the ribs with the butt of my rifle, instigated by pity for the poor donkey that was being eaten up by the flies.

on Occurrences 419%

Have pity on these poor people!

of Occurrences 174%

Oh, name him notLet me not in one Moment Descend from Heaven to Hell How came that wretched thing into thy Noddle? Nur. Faith, Mistress, I took pity of thee, I saw you so elevated with Thoughts of Mr. Bellmour, I found it necessary to take you down a degree lower.

in Occurrences 104%

In the mean time, the pure waste going onthe wanton destruction of the innocentsis a sad sight to see, and the sun may well be pitied in being compelled to look on.

to Occurrences 52%

your Anger's just, I must confess: yet pardon the frailty of my Sex's vanity; behold my Tears that sue for pity to you.

than Occurrences 35%

They may forbear, my lords, from the common principles of humanity, because they think those poor traders deserve rather pity than punishment; they may forbear from a principle that operates more frequently, and too often more strongly; a regard to their own interest.

at Occurrences 25%

Lear, the troublesome, Lear to whose limber tongue there was constantly leaping words unprintable and names of tar, deserves no soft pity at our hands.

from Occurrences 24%

However, here I was at thirty stranded, yet wanting for nothing,in a position to call forth rather envy than pity from the greater part of my contemporaries; for I had an assured and comfortable existence, as much money as I wanted, and the prospect of an excellent fortune for the future.

as Occurrences 22%

But a child who has no taste for reading, who is utterly incapable of losing himself in a printed page, quite unable to forget his childish griefs, "And plunge, Soul forward, headlong into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth," such a child is to be pitied as missing one of the chief joys of life.

with Occurrences 13%

They reached Schaffhausen with a number of other rapatriés, in early February, to find there the boundless pity with which the Swiss know so well how to surround the frail and tortured sufferers of this war.

about Occurrences 5%

" "It's an awful pity about old 'Thirsty,'" he would say to his brother prefects.

into Occurrences 5%

The peasant threw kindly pity into his respectful greeting.

over Occurrences 5%

These made great pity over that sorrowful sight, and they took away from there the dead King and the woeful Queen, and the King they buried in holy ground, and the Queen they let live with them and she was thereafter known as the "Sister of Sorrows.

by Occurrences 5%

The Prussians seem determined to revenge themselves for the humiliation they suffered from the French during the time they occupied their country, and I sincerely pity by anticipation the fate of the French peasants upon whom these gentlemen may chance to be quartered.

towards Occurrences 3%

I was myself filled with disgust towards the whites, as well as pity towards the blacks, on beholding, immediately on our arrival, a gang of forty or fifty negroes, of both sexes, and nearly all ages, working in shackles on the wharf.

among Occurrences 2%

Many speak so ignorantly as to excite pity among their hearers.

without Occurrences 1%

He was obviously a typical specimen of that class of men who are destitute alike of the virtues and failings of the "respectable" and successful; whom many people love and no one respects; whom everybody pities in their struggles and difficulties, but whom few pity without a smile.

after Occurrences 1%

Whatever anger Albert may have had toward the poor fellow was all turned into pity after this night.

beside Occurrences 1%

Russell sat silent and pitying beside him, and let Eric's head rest upon his shoulder.

during Occurrences 1%

He spits, and scratches, and spawls, and turns like sick men from one elbow to another, and deserves as much pity during his torture as men in fits of tertian fevers, or self-lashing penitentiaries.

like Occurrences 1%

His kindly blue eyes widened with shocked surprise, and fell; when he raised them, a pity like a mother's had crept into them; it broadened and brightened as time slid by, but it never left them.

near Occurrences 1%

Now, as he thought of her, his heart melted in a fire of love and pity: of love that conjured up a thousand pictures of her eyes, her lips, her smile, her shapeall presently dashed by night and reality; of pity that swelled his breast to bursting, set his eyes burning and his brain throbbinga pity near akin to rage.

through Occurrences 1%

But a heart that has been taught by its own sore struggles to bleed for the woes of anotherthat has "learned pity through suffering"is likely to find very imperfect satisfaction in the "balance of happiness," "doctrine of compensations," and other short and easy methods of obtaining thorough complacency in the presence of pain; and for such a heart that saying will not be altogether dark.

under Occurrences 1%

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

underneath Occurrences 1%

When daring Blood, his rent to have regain'd, Upon the English diadem distrain'd; He chose the cassoc, circingle, and gown, The fittest mask for one that robs the crown: But his lay-pity underneath prevail'd, And, while he sav'd the keeper's life, he fail'd.

Which preposition to use with  pity