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We have thus in our sleep a number of Pities, like the ‘Pietà’ of the
The Captive 2003
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Pities our _fruitless Pains_ for _Fame_ and _Praise_,
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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Divers Pities, and along the Path by the Bazaar to the Tomb with the Blue
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 01 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Divers Pities, and along the Path by the Bazaar to the Tomb with the Blue
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Divers Pities, and along the Path by the Bazaar to the Tomb with the
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Years, walking there softly and alone with the feet of life's Pities and a mother's Constancies.
Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Allen 1887
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And the Pities before they left the house that night walked past her one by one and each lifted its veil and dropped it more softly.
Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Allen 1887
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And behind him among the dark evergreens went on that Pilgrimage of the Years -- with the feet of the Pities and the Constancies.
Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Allen 1887
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Pities a Man of Sense, judg'd by a Croud of Fools.
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Senators, not out of Wantonness but Stratagem. it is a thousand Pities you should be so severely virtuous as I fear you are; otherwise, after a Visit or two, you would soon understand that we Women of the Town are not such useless Correspondents as you may imagine: You have undoubtedly heard that it was a Courtesan who discovered Cataline's Conspiracy.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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