Citations:pity


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Wherefore he began to retire himself to his chamber, to pray for and pity them, and also to condole his own misery; he would also walk solitarily in the fields, sometimes reading, and sometimes praying: and thus for some days he spent his time.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Then, with a rapidity of transition very foreign to his usual character, he said, in pity for his former self, "Poor boy!" and cried again.