Miss Garth was prophetically pitying Magdalen's unfortunate husband.
He turns on me, looking pitying enough to make a body cry, and says:
Only I wish you'd beat me and thump me when I'm such a fool, instead of pitying me.
Something in the gesture of the man as he waved the bloody and pitying soldiers away made the youth start as if bitten.
The woman did not speak; a fit of coughing came on, and the old man stood looking at her with a very pitying expression.
Apollo, pitying his deserted child, sent Hermes to convey him to Delphi, where he deposited his charge on the steps of the temple.
"Mighty Victor, mighty lord, Low on his funeral couch he lies! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies. Is the sable warrior fled? Thy son is gone.