- Pity is a
sympathetic sorrow evoked by the
suffering of others. The word is
comparable to comp****ion, condolence, or empathy. It
derives from the Latin...
- temple-floors with
their dishevelled hair and
lifted up
their hands to
heaven in
piteous entreaty to the gods that they
would deliver the City of Rome out of the...
- Full, as, for example, a voce
piena = "in full voice"
pietoso Pitiful,
piteous più More; see
mosso piuttosto Rather,
somewhat (e.g.
allegro piuttosto...
- Richard, late
mercifully reigning upon us, was
through great treason piteously slain and murdered, to the
great heaviness of this City". York Records...
-
exploits that
phase of
Negro life
which is "quaint," the
phase which evokes a
piteous smile on the lips of the "superior" race. But
since the late 20th century...
-
Romani woman a few
miles down the road
carrying a
child that was
crying piteously.
Scouts were
immediately dispatched in the
direction indicated, and they...
-
depths of **** Caïna
waits for him who took our lives." This was the
piteous tale they
stopped to tell.
Francesca further reports that she and Paolo...
- of the
Daughters of Albion: The loud and
lustful Bromion. The "mild and
piteous" Palamabron, son of
Enitharmon and Los (also
appears in Milton). The tortured...
-
repetition of words, as in the
series "pitiable", "pity", "pitied", and "
piteous". A
second typical device is the use of
unusual adjective-noun combinations...
- of
modified words, as in the
series "pitiable", "pity", "pitied" and "
piteous" (Ch. 81, "The
Pequod Meets the Virgin"). Second, the use of
existing words...
