Not that pitiful handful of porters who are too old for fighting, that is certain.

One sergeant recorded that the British army was "a poor pitiful handful of half starved scorbutic skeletons."

Only a few lifetubes had shot out, carrying a pitiful handful of survivors.

If it did, though, and all he had to fight with was this pitiful handful of men, well, Semma wasn'this homeland.

The rest of us, along with Tom and a pitiful handful of freed humans, were bunched together.

Only a pitiful handful would not resent him or be afraid of him.

Now there was nothing he and his pitiful handful of survivors could do, no matter what orders came in.

Was this pitiful handful of drowning men what was supposed to rescue Aratex?

All in all, it was a far cry from the pitiful handful Rand had seen the last time.

Without hostages, you're just a pitiful handful of people on one little bit of land.