It was a wretched, pitiable sight.

Tope Sorley (his forebears had adopted the name of the family that owned them, in slave days) was a pitiable sight just then.

The gates of Karak Varn were a pitiable sight.

She tore her eyes away from the pitiable sight of the dead family and stared at the assassins.

A man on the point of death sir, has no call for so pitiable a sight as is your face just now.

His health failed and he was a pitiable sight in later years.

The bleating came again, and following the sound Will set eyes on a pitiable sight.

The most pitiable sight in the world is a politician barking up the right tree.

Young Ian was a pitiable sight; he was also an extremely funny one.

It was a most pitiable sight, though one that gladdened the hearts of my men.