3561 examples of wretched in sentences

You make me do it all, you wretched shirk.

The result, of course, was miserable,jealousies, piques, humiliations, misunderstandings, and the sundering of the ties of friendship, which led to the necessity of another retreat: a real home the wretched man never had.

The wretched man retires to Derbyshire, and there writes his "Confessions,"the most interesting and most dangerous of his books, showing a diseased and irritable mind, and most sophistical views on the immutable principles of both morality and religion.

At another time, Burke, who was sitting with him in the company of four or five others, expressed his fear that so large a number might be oppressive to him, "No, Sir," said Johnson, "it is not so; and I must be in a wretched state, indeed, when your company would not be a delight to me."

As soon as they found themselves at home in the large friendly room, as far removed from the town which they had just been scouring as if they had been a hundred leagues away from it, all uneasiness and all sadness vanishedeven to the recollection of the wretched afternoon wasted in useless wanderings.

What wretched state is this, Earle Cassimere, That I and my unhappie progenie Stand subject to the scornes of such as these! Cass.

Notwithstanding his wretched appearance however, he was recognised, and people said that he had been a centurion, and, compassionating him, recounted other distinctions that he had gained in war: he himself exhibited scars on his breast in front, which bore witness to honourable battles in several places.

When they repeatedly inquired the reason of his plight, and wretched appearance, a crowd having now gathered round him almost like a regular assembly, he said, that, while serving in the Sabine war, because he had not only been deprived of the produce of his land in consequence of the depredations of the enemy, but his residence had also been burned down, all his effects pillaged, his cattle driven off, and

But I can now suffer nothing that will not bring more disgrace on you than misery on me; nor, most wretched as I am, shall I be so for long.

It was she who washed the dishes, and scrubbed down the stairs, and polished the floors in my lady's chamber and in those of the two pert misses, her daughters; and while the latter slept on good feather beds in elegant rooms, furnished with full-length looking-glasses, their sister lay in a wretched garret on an old straw mattress.

"You have done well, Madam, (said D'Elmont, looking on her with Eyes sparkling with Indignation) you have done well, by your impertinent Curiosity and Imprudence, to rouze me from my Dream of Happiness, and remind me that I am that wretched thing a Husband! '

That poore men Are forct too, for a slender competens, A little to prolonge a wretched lyfe! 2 Fish.

Wretched man!

[Song within.] (1) Helpe, Helpe, oh ayde a wretched mayde or els we are undoon then. (2) And have I caught, and have I caught you? in vayne it is to roonne then.

Then this the land now threatens; againe undoone, Over and over wretched! Clowne.

I have bene The longe and wretched owner of that cabinet With all therein contein'd.

"But what will become of him, if he returns some day, wretched and pooras he's likely to beand we not here?" "You're right about that," the father agreed.

He looked pitifully bowed and old and wretched in the midst of his distracted farm hands, who were running about and shouting and not doing much of anything else.

When one beholds this wretched place, where a man can scarce stand upright, one only wonders how he could survive such treatment; or how he could escape becoming insane altogether.

"This thing," I exclaimed, "is a contemptible falsehooda poor hoaxthe lees of the invention of some pitiable penny-a-liner, of some wretched concocter of accidents in Cocaigne.

Wretched as is the daily life of a large part of our working peoplethe only people who really count in a country's prosperitywe can no longer realise what it was when wages were so low and food so dear that the struggle with starvation never ceased.

But it will make me wretched.

On Saturday the wretched woman dragged herself once more to the cotton field.

4. The free children he represented as being in a wretched condition.

The suffering amongst the families of the Herzegovinians, exiled almost en masse into Dalmatia and Montenegro, was very great; but the influence of the letters which appeared in the "Times" produced a wide and happy charitable movement, and I received at Ragusa supplies of money and clothing, which made the wretched Christians bless England continually.

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