I remember only the horrible cold, the endless ages of waiting, the hopeless misery of the dugouts, foul, black rat-holes that we had to crawl into through sticky mud and filthy water.

The cowboy was the picture of utter misery.

Post-pituitary most often refuses to settle down, and expressing its ambition as headaches, flushes, obesity and hysteria, may cause extreme misery and unhappiness to its possessor.

I hope a committee of them will attend to the eternal misery of the dog who betrayed it.

Tenthly, in fine, the slanderer, if he doth not, by serious and sore repentance retract his practice, doth banish himself from heaven and happiness, doth expose himself to endless miseries and sorrows.

"Life on a chain is misery unspeakable.

No other people would have resigned itself to the intense misery and to the infinite sufferings which tens of millions of Russians endure without complaint.

Good George, relieve my bitter misery.

Beauty, which others desire and try every means to obtain, to me has been a source of untold misery.

A look of abject misery was on his face, and in his hand he held an open letter.

They loitered in the public streets, and dissipated in gaming their miserable pittance; they spent the hours of the night in the lowest resorts of crime and misery; they expired in wretched apartments without attracting the attention of government; pestilence, famine, and squalid misery thinned their ranks, and they would have been annihilated but for constant accession to their numbers from the provinces.

Here they fell in with a hospitable Jew, who made himself remembered by saying that he was honoured in their having partaken of his little misery.

How natural were grief and despair, in such complicated miseries, especially to a religious man!

To bestow so vast a happiness on one, while thousands pine in helpless misery.

if not in yourselves vices, to how much exquisite misery do you frequently prepare the way!'

At another time he would have been somewhat alarmed, for the strongest swimmer is absolutely helpless under an attack of cramp, but this morning he was indifferent, and the thought struck him that it would be well for him if he flung up his arms and went down to the bottom of the lake on the shores of which he had experienced such exquisite joy, such unutterable misery.

But, a short time after her arrival, she began to see through the thin veil with which politeness covers domestic misery.

Thus was the wilfulness of Baldwin the source of infinite misery.

Much mental misery clothed the language and ideas of the fisherman with a dignity that his auditor had not been accustomed to find in men of his class.

He never felt better than when he was engaged on some long work, methodically planned out beforehand, so many pages to so many hours every morning, and he compared this work to a balancing-pole, which enabled him to maintain his equilibrium in the midst of daily miseries, weaknesses, and mistakes.

Some time afterwards Iblís returned to Zohák, but in the shape of a physician, and told him that it was according to his own horoscope that he suffered in this mannerit was, in short, his destinyand that the serpents would continue connected with him throughout his life, involving him in perpetual misery.

'Then it cannot be conceived that a creature can make laws for its CREATOR[108].' 'Depend upon it, said he, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it[109].'

This may show you how a bodily sin, like self-indulgence punishes itself by bringing a man into bondage of bodily misery, from which he cannot escape; and in the same way a spiritual sin, like want of charity, will bring a man into spiritual bondage from which he cannot escape.

"I tell you, my much-loved darling, the secret miseries of my heart; no, I do not blush for what my hand has just written, but my heart is sick and suffering, and I tell it to you.

In Gissing the misery inherent in the sharp contrasts of modern life was a far more deeply ingrained conviction.