53 adjectives to describe wretchedness

She would have been thought rich in any country; to their utter wretchedness her wealth was fabulous beyond bounds of fairy tale.

And if the weary children of hunger and hard toil instead of seeking sleep as nature's sweet restorer, sought to stimulate their flagging energies in the enticing cup, they with the advantages of wealth, culture and refinement could not plead the excuses of extreme wretchedness, or hard and unremitting drudgery.

"Perhaps Montgomery's men have scalped him;" the miller pulled the night-cap from his own head and threw it on the floor in helpless wretchedness.

I have lived in Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky; and I know the condition of the slaves to be that of unmixed wretchedness and degradation.

Relieved from my ever-present sense of irremediable wretchedness, I gradually found that the ordinary incidents of life could again give me some pleasure; that I could again find enjoyment, not intense, but sufficient for cheerfulness, in sunshine and sky, in books, in conversation, in public affairs; and that there was, once more, excitement, though of a moderate, kind, in exerting myself for my opinions, and for the public good.

Suffering and sorrow were aliens from his roof, misery approached not his doors, and Mordaunt had, in fact, been purchased from motives of compassion, which his evident wretchedness, both bodily and mental, had excited; to cure his bodily ills no kindly attention was spared, but vainly Mahommed Ali sought to lessen the load of anguish he saw imprinted on the brow of his Christian captive.

The thought of sitting in it brought a faint sense of comfort to my bewildered wretchedness.

The overwork and the brutal chastisements of which I was the victim, combined with that ever-gnawing and soul-destroying thought, 'I am a slave,a slave for life,' rendered me a living embodiment of mental and physical wretchedness.

would they not lead lives of abject wretchedness?

Only to the arms of their betrayer, which, perhaps, are now no longer open to receive them; and then how quick must be the transition from deluded virtue to shameless guilt, and from shameless guilt to hopeless wretchedness?

Sufferings inconceivable and innumerableunmingled wretchedness from the ties of nature rudely broken and destroyed, the acutest bodily tortures, groans, tears and bloodlying forever in weariness and painfulness, in watchings, in hunger and in thirst, in cold and nakedness.

Mental disgust "sicklies o'er" all the objects of thought, extinguishes faith in exertion, communicates a dull wretchedness to indolence in the very process by which it makes activity impossible, and drags into its own slough of despond, and discolors with its own morbid reveries, the objects which it should ardently seek and genially assimilate.

All things were real to this man, this uncouth mass of flesh that his companions sneered at; most real of all the unhelped pain of life, the great seething mire of dumb wretchedness in our streets and alleys, the cry for aid from the starved souls of the world.

But only if our prison lasts too long, I'll try divert eternal wretchedness, And shall adorn myself unto my death.

Why should I insist upon such aggravations as hunger, beggary, and external wretchedness?

Her first husband had been his first law partner; and from what he had been forced to observe concerning his partner's fireside wretchedness during his few years of married life, he had learned to fear and to hate her.

His lordship, however, did not interpose; and I went on to relate, in the most telling manner of which I was capable, the history of the deceased Mrs. Thorndyke's first and second marriages; the harmony and happiness of the firstthe wretchedness and cruelty which characterized the second.

Mr. Michael Johnson was a man of a large and robust body, and of a strong and active mind; yet there was in him a mixture of that disease the nature of which eludes the most minute inquiry, though the effects are well known to be a weariness of life, an unconcern about those things which agitate the greater part of mankind, and a general sensation of gloomy wretchedness.

Many present pictures of indescribable wretchedness.

Four-and-twenty hours he gave her to decide, and departed, leaving inexpressible wretchedness behind him, on the part of Mrs. Greville, and the calm stupor of exhaustion and despair pervading Mary's every faculty.

One cannot take in infinite wretchedness: it is our nature to make dates and periods to our sorrows in our imagination.

Money is perfectly powerless as a shield against many troublesand on the other hand it can save a man from innumerable little wretchednesses and horrors which destroy the beauty and dignity of life.

He had said no word, he had given no sign; and for several hours that mother could not overcome internal wretchedness so far even as to join her Mary.

He spoke calmly, but there was a paleness of the cheek, a dimness of the eye, that told a tale of inward wretchedness, which the regard of Mr. Hamilton could not fail instantly to discover.

Of what depths of juvenile wretchedness and precocious misanthropy is that crop suggestive!

53 adjectives to describe  wretchedness