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"In Florida, cruel men shoot the mother birds on their nests while they are rearing their young, because their plumage is prettiest at that time, The little ones cry pitifully, and starve to death.
Hour after hour, from the sun's rising till its going down, he sat by his father's coffin, unmindful of the many who came in to look at the dead, and then gazing pitifully upon the face of the living, walked away, whispering mysteriously of insanity.
And then, as the motherly eyes looked into hers, there came a burst of the ready tears; and 'Oh, please don't talk about it please don't ask. 'I know what you are afraid of, said Sister Constance, remembering her horror of the Bexley medical attendant, 'but is it right to conceal this, my dear child? 'I don't think I do, said Cherry pitifully.
But somehow the sight of the badly-wounded man disarmed me, and I dismounted to part the bushes and kneel down beside where my enemy lay back with his legs beneath the neck and shoulders of his dead horse, blood-smeared and ghastly, as he gazed wildly in my face. "Wather!" he said pitifully. "I am a dead man."
"No," he cried, drawing a thought backward, and again entrenching himself behind one of his former phrases; "I will not cross the door." I looked at him. I saw unaffected terror struggling on his face with unaffected shame; he was smiling pitifully and wetting his lip with his tongue, like a detected schoolboy. I drew a brief picture of my state, and asked him what I was to do.
I've often thought of you rather pitifully!" said Prather. "You well might!" Jack answered, feelingly. "We may well share a common pity for each other." There was no sign that John Prather subscribed to the sentiment except in a certain quizzical turn of his lips, as he looked away. "Yes, the story has been kept from me. I have come for it!" said Jack. "That is raking out the skeletons.
When they reached the group of paupers they rested upon a woman with deadly pale, hollow cheeks, pressing a pitifully emaciated infant to her dry breast, and her eyes swiftly filled with tears. "Here," she whispered to old Martsche, taking several gold coins from the pocket that hung at her belt, "give these to the poorest ones. You are sensible.
The big Turk screamed pitifully at first, and then actually fainted away from fright. Rob was much frightened, on his part, for he knew if his hands slipped from their hold he would fall to his death. Indeed, one hand was slipping already, so he made a frantic clutch and caught firmly hold of the Turk's baggy trousers.
Lafayette had won a great reputation for his magnanimous and chivalrous assistance to the United States, when, at twenty years of age, he escaped from official hindrances at home and tendered his unpaid voluntary services to Washington. This was in the darkest period of the American Revolution, when Washington had a pitifully small army, and when the American treasury was empty.
She looked pitifully distracted; she might not have understood his report; or Kenby might really have mistaken Mrs. March's sympathy for favor. "No, he only lives to do good," Mrs. Adding returned. "He's with Rose; won't you come in and see them?" Rose was lying back on the pillows of a sofa, from which they would not let him get up.
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