34 collocations for wretched

But if you have once been defeated and say that you will conquer hereafter, and then say the same again, be assured that you will at last be in so wretched a condition and so weak that you will not even know afterwards that you are doing wrong, but you will even begin to make apologies (defences) for your wrong-doing, and then you will confirm the saying of Hesiod to be true, With constant ills the dilatory strives.

If this then be the case, and if slaves, notwithstanding all the arguments to the contrary, are exquisitely miserable, we ask you receivers, by what right you reduce them to so wretched a situation? You reply, that you buy them; that your money constitutes your right, and that, like all other things which you purchase, they are wholly at your own disposal.

Ungrateful wretches the rest, thou wilt be apt to say, to make such sorry returns, as they generally do make, to the poor and the middling!

My husband, King of England, is leading so wretched a life that death would be a welcome exchange for him.

You'll hear folk speak of a woman as virtuous when she may be as evil and as wretched a creature as walks this earth.

Holding it between his finger and thumb, he saidor rather shouted, so angry was he"Who are you, pray, you wretched little creature, that you make so free with my person?"

I suppose some punishment was inevitably necessary in such a plain case of deliberate theft as this, but, nevertheless, my whole soul revolts at the injustice of visiting upon these poor wretches a moral darkness which all possible means are taken to increase and perpetuate.

I see Amintas wretched fate, To whom sweet poet's verse hath given endlesse date.

Including her, you would now have had five youngsters, you wretched fellow!

And what could the Law do for me? Publish our shame and perhaps brand me that wretched thingthe willingly deceived and complaisant husband.

What wretched infatuation to interdict such amusements as these!

Heaps wretched leaves, half tombed in ghastly snow; Bring back the mother-heaven of orphans lone, The brother's and the sister's faithfulness; Bring forth the kingdom of the Son of Man.

What wretched luck!

" [80] The words "hence we may ... wretched lyfe" are scored through in the MS.

Ah wretched, wretched Man!

THE BEGGAR-MAN Abject, stooping, old, and wan, See yon wretched beggar man; Once a father's hopeful heir, Once a mother's tender care.

Only do go first, and cover up that horrible place, and hide that wretched money before I go into the Tower.

I suppose I ought to have known you were onlyplaying with meas you saida wretched object as I am now, but" "An object!" cried Sarah, so anxious to stem the tide of his reproaches that she scarce knew what she was saying, "which appeals to the soft side of every woman's heart, high or low, rich or poor, civilized or savagea wounded soldier.

It requires a deal of resolution for a young woman to show herself in the streets alone in so wretched a plight as hers.

This poor fellow was such a one; and the king seeing him in so wretched a plight, with nothing but a blanket about his loins to cover his nakedness, could not be persuaded but that the fellow was some father who had given all away to his daughters, and brought himself to that pass: for nothing he thought could bring a man to such wretchedness but the having unkind daughters.

, I would not stick to call so wretched a Politician, a Traitor, an Enemy to his Country, and a Bl-nd-rb-ss, &c., &

She makes the end of youth untimely and of age wretched, the city's sack and the country's beggary: she is the captain's pride and the captive's sorrow, the throat of blood and the grave of flesh.

He says that you have done something which you ought not to have doneabout that wretched Mountjoy Scarborough.

Perchance he's dead!oh wretched state!

" "Of course," I said, "a financial magnate like yourself would easily forget so wretched a sum; but the Bank has done no wrong.

34 collocations for  wretched