And then, as she read on, slowly mastering the legal phraseology, conning over the cases quoted in support of each assertion, it gradually became horribly, piteously plain to her that if her husband cared to defend the suit, she had but a very poor chance of obtaining what this work so rightly styled "relief."
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
She looked about her piteously, undecided.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
More dead than alive, he lay and groaned piteously, and the pirates, being occupied with his sufferings, and pleased, to all appearance, with the ready help which our men had afforded him, tormented and threatened me no more.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot