unpitied

‘When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.’

Trivia!: All that's needed for evil to triumph.... fantasyecho 2008

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Is Karl Rove An Atheist? 2009

“Here then, is my death-bed,” he said, “and that gulf perhaps the grave which yawns for my remains Nay, I have heard of prisoners being plunged into such horrid abysses while they were yet alive, to die at leisure, crushed with wounds, their groans unheard, and their fate unpitied!”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Cardinal Balue, was groaning within a cage of iron, so disposed as scarce to permit him to enjoy repose in any posture except when recumbent, and of which, be it said in passing, he remained the unpitied tenant for nearly twelve years.

Quentin Durward 2008

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

A Fateful Election Baker, Russell 2008

He finds Obama's position "dismaying" and even quotes British political philosopher Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

James Warren: This Week in Magazines: What's at Stake in the Election, Atlantic's Redesign and The New Yorker's Brainiacs 2008

This very conceit hath, in a tempest, disposed and left me willing to be swallowed up in the abyss of waters, wherein I had perished unseen, unpitied, without wondering eyes, tears of pity, lectures of mortality, and none had said, “Quantum mutatus ab illo!”

Religio Medici 2007

Anxious and unhappy for them both, the thought stole on her through the crowd, that it might have been better for them if this noise of tongues and tread of feet had never come there, — if the old dulness and decay had never been replaced by novelty and splendour, — if the neglected child had found no friend in Edith, but had lived her solitary life, unpitied and forgotten.

Dombey and Son 2007

Burke wound up with the sentence that has been pillaged ever since: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

Problems At The Pentagon 2007

Unrecognised and unpitied, it was borne to the grave; and there it has long since mouldered away!

Sketches by Boz 2007