piteous

piteous englannista suomeksi

1. surkea

1. säälittävä, surkea

piteous englanniksi

1. Provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.

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2. (RQ:Shakespeare King Lear) with his strong armsHe fastened on my neck, and bellowed outAs he’d burst heaven; threw him on my father;Told the most piteous tale of Lear and himThat ever ear receiv’d;

3. 1782, (w), ''(w),'' London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume(nbs)2, Book(nbs)3, Chapter(nbs)4, p.(nbs)51,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004865984.0001.002

(..) my strength, madam, is almost all gone away, and when I do any hard work, it’s quite a piteous sight to see me, for I am all in a tremble after it, just as if I had an ague (..)

4. (RQ:Douglass Bondage)

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1931|author=Pearl S. Buck|title=The Good Earth|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.499111|chapter=11|pages=80–81|publisher=Modern Library|year_published=1944|location=New York

6. Showing devotion to God.

7. (RQ:Wycliffe Bible)

8. Showing compassion.

9. (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2)

10. (RQ:Milton Comus)

11. (RQ:Pope Dunciad)

12. {{quote-book|en|year=1783|author=William Blake|chapter=An Imitation of Spenser|title=Poetical Sketches|location=London|publisher=Basil Montagu Pickering|year_published=1868|page=37|url=https://archive.org/details/poeticalsketches00blakuoft

13. Of little importance or value.

14. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost) calling to minde with heedPart of our Sentence, that thy Seed shall bruiseThe Serpents head; piteous amends, unlessBe meant, whom I conjecture, our grand Foe''Satan,''

15. (RQ:Defoe Robinson Crusoe) my Business was now to try if I could not make Jackets out of the great Watch-Coats which I had by me, and with such other Materials as I had, so I set to Work a Taylering, or rather indeed a Botching, for I made most piteous Work of it.