The Cappadocian seemed to draw strength from that piteous sight.

But what was it to me, this piteous sight of Christians rushing to help their brethren, and naked children crying for parents who were no more?

There will be screams and howls and piteous sights.

But all is lost: that mighty mind o'erthrown, Like sweet bells jangled, piteous sight to see!

"A piteous sight," according to a letter written by selectman Jonathan Weekes.

A man who had died Bowman's death would be a piteous sight.

But finally she is apparently moved by the piteous sight of the distressed supplicant and laboriously counts out 995 roubles change.

The sorrow and the horror of the piteous sights weighed on their hearts and drained their souls.

The tears came, then, and trickled, one after the other, down his face; but this piteous sight wrought no softening effect upon the savage old man.

Here they saw a strange and piteous sight.