He took Dolph aside, and exerted his eloquence to get him to abandon all thoughts of business, and to remain with him-but in vain; and he at length gave up the attempt, observing, "that it was a thousand Pities so fine a young man should throw himself away."
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
In this way they were sauntering slowly along; and when I considered them and the scene in which they were moving, I could not but think it a thousand Pities that the season should ever change, or that young people should ever grow older, or that blossoms should give way to fruit, or that lovers should ever get married.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
"It must be that Miss Fuzzytail just Pities me.
"Mrs. Peter Rabbit"
Thornton W. Burgess
