The old man dropped dead, his wizened body sprawled in a pitiful heap.

I went to see anyway, and found the astrologer's body lying in a pitiful heap on the floor of his pitiful lodging.

The deserting porters lay moaning and whimpering in pitiful heaps, with their loot scattered about them.

Doli, however, had quickly taken flint from his pouch and had struck a spark into the pitiful heap of splinters.

Matt stared down at the pitiful heap of ashes before him, feeling foolish and, strangely, very, very guilty.

I found the old surgeon lying, a shrunken, pitiful heap of withered skin and bones.

It fell to the cold ground in a pitiful little heap and lay unmoving.

Draping it around his neck, he went over to the pitiful sobbing heap and knelt down by it.

We stood in the cold slush beside the pitiful heap I had just leased against my better judgment.

Then ne stepped over the pitiful, horri-ble heap on the carpet and went on.