You'd forgive them if you'd seen, as I did, how miserable and overwhelmed they were when Brother PaulwhenI'm not saying it's the highest kind of religion that they're so almighty afraid of losing your good opinion, but itit gives you a hold, doesn't it?"

She wondered how many other miserable people had tried to read these hateful books while they waited in this abominable room.

Now you've made me utterly miserable for the entire afternoon, and I'm sure I hope you are satisfied.

This dunderheaded giantess of a Mrs. Grundy condemns me to be miserable, and I am powerless.

If he deserts her, she is miserable until she succeeds in demonstrating to herself it was entirely her own fault; after that, she is properly repentant, but far less unhappy; and, anyhow, she goes on loving him just the same.

This despair brought me a miserable kind of comfort.

" Schoolboy though the railer was, Boone staggered against the hedge, the words brought a dreadful flush and then a livid pallor to the miserable parent's cheek.

And surely she was miserable enough in her old environment.

When it makes miserable those about it, or robs a girl of her pink cheeks, her bright eyes, her joy of life, wearing the elasticity out of her step and making an old woman of her before her time, we do not fly into a rage at itwe avoid it.

When Stoddard would have remonstrated, or asked why, his lips were closed by sight of her daunted, miserable face.

I found a miserable household here.

At last she came, looking thoroughly miserable, distracted, and forlorn.

Thou mayest observe," continued he with the air of a good man contending with adversity, "how weak and miserable is man's estate even in the day of good fortune, how hard it is for purblind mortals to discern the right path, especially when two alluring routes are simultaneously presented for their decision!

I have consequently represented my case to many of your predecessors: but, O Alexander, you seventeenth-century Popes are a miserable breed!

How miserable, in comparison, is the present sapless age, with its prudery and its pedantry, and its periwigs and its painted coaches, and its urban Arcadias and the florid impotence and ostentatious inanity of what it calls its art!

Now when the sun was setting, and he was beginning to feel very cold and miserable in his nakedness, the men were seen returning from the hunt; but instead of riding slowly to the camp as on other days, they came riding furiously and shouting.

A miserable little boy alone and lost in the forest, naked, all scratched and bleeding with thorns, with no courage in his heart, no strength in his hands!

He bent down and let a tear drop, and watched it as it sank into the ground, but no small beetle came out to drink it, and he felt more lonely and miserable than ever.

Then a cloud came over the sun, and a sharp wind sprang up that made him shiver with cold: then followed a shower of rain; and now Martin, feeling sore and miserable, crept into a cavity beneath a pile of overhanging rocks for shelter.

"I said I was not ignorant of misfortune myself, and had learned to succor the miserable, and that's not your trade, Mr. Sheepskin," said the trooper.

On his approach the Carnutes, taught by the fate of others, abandoned their miserable hutswhich they had erected on the site of their burgs and oppida destroyed in the last campaignand fled in every direction.

With the Psalmist, I believe, 'at His right hand there are pleasures for evermore:' and what is good and of eternal duration, must be joyful above what we can conceive; as what is evil and of like duration, must be despairingly miserable.

Old Hobbes, with all his fancied strength of reason, could never endure to rest or stay upon that thought, but ran from it to some miserable amusement.

So cold and dismal and miserable.

He comes here with a miserable load of wood; gives it away; sells it for a note; did not care about the wood, wanted only to get it out; had a longing for a cargo of negroes.