The four exchanged looks when this pitiful story was unfolded in gasps.

The beggar approached him with a pitiful story of wanderings and hardships.

It was a pitiful story, greatly distorted and misinterpreted by the press.

So in a few minutes he had learned her pitiful story.

This pitiful story haunted me as I went about my work.

Then comes a pitiful story of the strife between Lassalle and the Donniges family.

The very positions of the skeletons told a pitiful story.

Then both children began to cry, and the elder sobbed out a pitiful story.

With many tears and sighs, she told her pitiful story.

Perhaps you didn't hear the pitiful story he told us?

He blurted out the whole pitiful story and threw himself on the mercy of Jesus.

Still by catching sentences here and there the whole pitiful story was clear to me.

At the conclusion of his pitiful story he waited.

Then, with a little more urging, the nurse drew from them the whole pitiful story.

She would shed tears over a pitiful story of want, and without shadow of hypocrisy.

Susie, when she heard this pitiful story, sobbed convulsively.