There it was, hanging out, my desperate and pathetic plea for help.

The storm wind crying in the trees was the voice of a million victims, and the night was filled with their pathetic pleas for mercy.

I made a photocopy of the letter and forwarded your pathetic plea to America.

Don't let them see you-was What a pathetic plea, she thought then.

The last was more of a pathetic plea than anything else.

It was a pathetic plea, and Jamie himself glanced away from those large blue eyes.

A pitiful, pathetic plea from a man aching to make love to his wife.

Ross makes one final pathetic plea to Merrick, who refuses him, saying that's just the way things are.

All that escapes from me is a pathetic plea, 'Talk to me'.

I really believed you'd come up gasping for air and sputtering some pathetic plea.