| 1. | Oh, it was such a pathetic tale, Diana. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 2. | There was something pathetic in it that touched me. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | and containing, among many effective touches, the pathetic lines. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 4. | Jane and Ruby almost always cry when I come to the pathetic parts. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 5. | Her death has all the pathetic uselessness of martyrdom, all its wasted beauty. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 6. | "Don't be cheeky, Jack," remonstrated the landlord, in a melancholy and pathetic way. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | That kind of puzzled us because the stories were all very pathetic and almost everybody died. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 8. | And the choir are going to sing four lovely pathetic songs that are pretty near as good as hymns. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 9. | I should like to have something more of her than the memory of a few kisses and some broken pathetic words.. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |