Is it not a pitiful story?

Many tell pitiful stories of low self-esteem that began when they were children and worsened as they grew older.

It is not necessary to follow the pitiful story to its inevitable end, one, happily, more common at that time than it is to-day.

It was a long and (as the reader knows) a pitiful story; but Flora heard it with compressed lips.

Well, she'd make up some pitiful story about a soldier in the hospital who needed it and Rhett need never know the truth.

Mr. Andrist has not only dug out the facts, he has told a series of dramatic, pitiful and tragic stories.

From Polly they learned her pitiful story.

"We are going to manage all these things better now," I said, feeling a strange resentment at this pitiful story her faded, matter-of-fact voice was telling me.

Deep lines carved themselves from nose to jaw in Ardmore's face as he listened to the little man's pitiful story.

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