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The two of them sat there for a pitifully long time.
And yet, he had found it to be pitifully common.
In a little while she opened her eyes and looked at him - so pitifully!
It seemed that the cost had been great, the result pitifully small.
Perhaps I am pitifully like that old dog we used to have.
It was a pitifully small card to play, but the only one I had.
But the salaries of most government officials are pitifully low.
Pitifully, the only place to hide was under the bed.
Of the country's 1,000 largest companies, the number run by women remains pitifully small.
And there were pitifully few farmers on the land any more.
From here it looked pitifully small in a very large landscape.
I should think they'd have to be,' said the Sergeant almost pitifully.
A pitifully small figure no matter how you spin it.
Even standing on the same broad step as him, she seemed pitifully small.
If it is a test, think how pitifully, thus far, you have failed!
He had looked mad, but at least he'd seemed human, sometimes pitifully so.
They were both pitifully thin and looked ten years older.
It was pitifully easy to tug information from the young.
Such common sense has been pitifully rare in the past generation.
Their pitifully small collection of jars was used up already.
Most of them are wired; it would be pitifully easy for him to do.
They seemed so pitifully few, a handful of moments in our two lives.
Their equipment was pitifully inadequate for the job they had to do.
She was pitifully ancient - about five years younger than I am now.
Against the array of the Enemy they were a pitifully few in number.