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Meanings of deserve pity in English

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Usage of deserve pity in English
1
They deserve pity, poor creatures; and they can have mine-atthis distance.
Roughing It
2
Especially when they are young they deserve pity, for they suffer cruelly.
Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete
3
I can pity others, or I should not deserve pity myself.
The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
4
Are we really monsters, or merely miserable creatures who deserve pity?
Level 7
5
You deserve pity for not knowing the decent from the vulgar after coming to a middle school.
Botchan (Master Darling)
6
And more, he doesn't deserve pity.
The Little Lady of the Big House
7
They certainly don't deserve pity.
The evolutionary void
8
Do I not deserve pity?
The Wandering Jew — Volume 09
9
They hardly deserve pity.
Spider bones: a novel
10
They certainly deserve pity.
The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
11
You don't deserve pity!
The Mayor of Casterbridge
12
That Persian poet who prated of "the sorry scheme of things" would deserve pity were he not beneath contempt.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
13
But Marcello Consalvi had no idea that he could deserve pity, and life looked very bright to him, very easy, and very peaceful.
Whosoever Shall Offend
14
And yet I deserved pity; what I suffered no tongue can ever tell.
A Terrible Secret: A Novel
15
She was the one who was loathsome, and Anders the one who deserved pity.
The ice princess
16
And at any rate she deserves pity, endless pity.
There Are Crimes and Crimes
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