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Hear him call piteously his father's name; see him clutch his fingers as he shrieks for his sister -- his only sister, the twin of his soul -- now weeping for him in his distant home!

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

Then in his throbbing head there was a question that kept on repeating itself -- that cry he had last heard as of someone calling piteously, something about his father, and who could it be?

Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain George Manville Fenn 1870

But the scene was suddenly changed; a quick step came round the hot-house; the birds flew away, and the mother called piteously to her child to follow.

Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855

The sight of her suffering agonized him beyond expression, but he took her hands -- he pressed them, for they were icy cold -- he called piteously on her name.

Foul Play Charles Reade 1849

For a while he was satisfied that his skull was fractured, and at least seven of his ribs driven in; and, as M'Bride came up, he called piteously to him to examine and see if his brains were not oozing out.

Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847

The unhappy boy was extended on the bed, in a raging fever; ever and anon he called piteously upon his father, then he cried out that Dunstan was pursuing him, driving him into the pit, then he cried -- "Father, I did not murder thee; not I, thy son! nay, I always loved thee in my heart.

Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

I heard my aunt call piteously from behind, but then my uncle said, “Swanle!” —

The Joy Luck Club Tan, Amy 1989

Dragging his fragile-looking damp wings on the ground, he began to lunge this way and that, calling piteously, while the adult dragons crooned encouragement, reinforced by Ramoth's half-hum, half-howl.

Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

Dragging his fragile-looking damp wings on the ground, he began to lunge this way and that, calling piteously, while the adult dragons crooned encouragement, reinforced by Ramoth's half-hum, half-howl.

Dragon Drums McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1979

He listened intently -- surely he heard a soft sweet voice calling piteously through the wind.

The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��