peety

"Isn't a peety they dinna ca 'me Izik?" says Jeems.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

It's a great peety that the lad would ha 'forgot what he owed to his salt.

The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

It's an awfu 'peety that the weemin dinna gang to the meetin's.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

There's whiles I think it a peety the old law against witchcraft was not still to the fore.

Doom Castle Neil Munro

Sometimes I think it is a great peety that Philip was not born a wee girl, for he would have grown up into a fine maiden aunt.

The Judge Rebecca West 1937

"I lookit this way and that, and there was no man to peety me, or to have compassion upon my fatherless children."

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

"It was such a peety," he remarked, "for we did all know perfectly well -- for I had told them -- that the inhabitants of Baghdad would destroy us themselves."

In Mesopotamia Maurice Nicoll 1918

"Well inteet," said the Ancient Mariner, as he settled once more to his pipe, "it will be a great peety that Lawyer Ed has neither the Gawlic nor the profanity, for when he will be getting into a rage he will jist be no use at all, at all!"

The End of the Rainbow Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918

"It will be a great peety that you hafe insulted me, for there will presently be a dead Irishman to stain the snow with hiss blood," he said deliberately, falling into more broken English as he always did when excited.

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

In an imperfect state of existence, 'the peety of it is that we cannot have all things as we would like them.'

The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909