But if he was told, that application was made in his behalf, and that Congress were willing to hear what could be urged in favor of discouraging the practice of importing his fellow-wretches, he would trust in their justice and humanity, and wait the decision patiently.

" "You are not going to leave that wretch in the room with me," cried my lady, pointing to the soldier.

He saw a wretch as miserable as himself crouching under a hencoop and holding both hands upon his tortured stomach.

As you crouch down within the shelter of your howdah, you can't help pitying the poor wretch, and incline to think that, after all, shooting in grass jungle has fewer drawbacks and is preferable to forest shooting.

" The Gradual Emancipation Society of North Carolina, in their Report for 1836, signed Moses Swaim, President, and William Swaim, Secretary, says, in describing the condition of slaves in the Eastern part of that State, "The master puts the unfortunate wretches upon short allowances, scarcely sufficient for their sustenance, so that a great part of them go half naked and half starved much of the time."

Let us save the wretch then, if we can, though we soil our fingers in lifting him up his dirt.

This brutal usage dismayed me; but Althea said, 'Poor wretch!

Pleasant and easy for you Protestants (for I will call you what you are, in spite of your own denials, a truly consistent and logical Protestantand therefore a Materialist)easy for you, I say, to sit on the shore, in cold, cruel self-satisfaction, and tell the poor wretch buffeting with the waves what he ought to do while he is choking and drowning. . . .

I knew the bloody and choleric wretch when he was alive.

It was a manly thing to slay that wretch.

He found a poor wretch, who had been crossing from a neighbouring village, in the possession of a party of kidnappers, who were tying his hands.

They're cursed wretches like you and me; and there are as many bands of them as there are mines on the road; and you'd better turn back and stay where you are.

What could it possibly matter to him, the great Proconsul, whether the Greeks beat a poor wretch of a Jew or not?

He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy.

He took pistol and sword from me thankfully, and flew upon his murderers, and, Friday, pursuing the flying wretches, in the end but four of the twenty-one escaped in a canoe.

"Baffled, but not beaten, I nex' turns my attention to the pictures, examinin' with a trained eye the backs of same, where might be cunningly concealed the old willuhI mean the incriminatin' dockaments that would bring the craven wretch to bay and land him safely behind the bars of jestice.

The Pope also raised troops, took possession of St. Peter's church, drove out the wretches who stole the offerings laid upon the tombs of the Apostles, took back several estates belonging to the domain of the Church, and secured the safety of the roads, upon which pilgrims no longer ventured to travel except in caravans.

The doctors were making ready to lift him, and half of the crowd were gaping in horror, and the rest yelling for ladders or ropes, and scrambling over each other, and there hung the poor flimsy wretches, their eyes starting out of their heads from horror, and their lean fingers loosing their hold every minute.

My great dread was, lest you should kill the poor wretches before their time, by adding to the fear of cholera the fear of hell.

He would punish these wretches by handing downto posterity their peculiarities.

Mrs. Hall suffered greatly for marrying a wretch who had so cruelly treated her own sister, Southey's Wesley, i. 369.

He then seizes the miserable wretch by the hair, in order to force him to the disclosure; and Virgil is represented as commending the barbarity!

a Lady? are the weomen so cruell here to insult ore Captive wretches.

OSWALD No, no, my Friend, you may pursue your business 'Tis a poor wretch of an unsettled mind, Who has a trick of straying from his keepers; We must be gentle.

If Carmen had not chosen to show her power over old "Grizzly Gaylor" by protecting the poor wretch, Harp would have met the fate he probably deserved.