He held out both his hands with a most pitiful gesture of interrogation.

The most pitiful end that an operative could face: burned out and unwilling to do anything about it.

I came across one of the most pitiful things I have ever known.

"Boy," he said, "that's got to be the most pitiful excuse for a body I've ever seen."

Willadene half threw herself across the space between, and her hands closed on that most pitiful of weapons.

Why, even the most pitiful rogue will believe in ghosts and demons.

This was the most pitiful element of sudden death, he thought.

It is the most pitiful thing in the world.

"You're the most pitiful person in the place," she said with a motherly smile.

The street children in the big cities there were the most pitiful sight I had ever seen.