Citations:pitied


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Truly I pitied the man, and was not altogether without hope of him; but one may see, it is not every one that cries, Lord, Lord.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * In this house they were received by Miss Darcy, who was sitting there with Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley, and the lady with whom she lived in London. Georgiana's reception of them was very civil, but attended with all the embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved. Mrs. Gardiner and her niece, however, did her justice, and pitied her.