But he was as kind a wretch as ever laid lips of a woman: he would a'come through the windows, or doors, or walls, or anything, but he would have come to me.

But may that traitor, shall that vile wretch live, By whom I have receiv'd this injury?

That niggardly wretch, Arthapati, is known to be intimate with me.

A toss of the head supplied what was wanting to the completeness of this speech, and said as plainly as words could have done, "poor wretches!"

This makes me additionally wretched, especially as I cannot help thinking that some mysterious cause enables her to frighten and tyrannise over my poor father.

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow, and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

The company got into a "peculiar metre" tune at once, and the singing was about the most comically wretched we ever heard.

For he, that to himself himself denies, Proves meanly wretched, to be counted wise.

Johnson admitted in his reply that he had no right to resent her conduct; expressed his gratitude for the kindness which had "soothed twenty years of a life radically wretched," and implored her ("superfluously," as she says) to induce Piozzi to settle in England.

1045 "O wretched lossuntimely stroke!

Some wretched trifle like this might spoil it all.