Usa "wretched" in una frase
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1. I was a wretched ghoul held in a pit, a wraith, a rat in a trap
2. My dear aunt, so wretched and forlorn, so defeated in her grief, I dared not make a sound
3. Professional mourning women dressed from head to toe in weeds, their wretched faces the colour of putty, snivelled and wailed with all the drama of a well-worn Greek tragedy
4. I feel completely wrung out physically and emotionally … and slightly nauseous … the usual aftermath of one of these wretched attacks
5. wretched and desperately alone in this harsh and threatening world
6. auditorium as she raised her hand and pointed it at the wretched old
7. I’ve tried all sorts of tactics … turning it inside out and grabbing hold of the corners of the duvet through the cover and trying to get the wretched thing to turn itself back the right way; winding the cover back over my arms and then grabbing the duvet and shaking hard … nothing seems to work
8. Jean felt wretched as he watched his friends leave,
9. of parishes to give them more than the wretched maintenance which they themselves might be
10. to spend the rest of their days in that wretched
11. It was a wretched supper that
12. A portion of this waste land, however, after having been pastured in this wretched manner for six or seven years together, may be ploughed up, when it will yield, perhaps, a poor crop or two of bad oats, or of some other coarse grain ; and then, being entirely exhausted, it must be rested and pastured again as before, and another portion ploughed up, to be in the same manner exhausted and rested again in its turn
13. Looking at Brontes and the other wretched looking survivors, it was hard for Anon to believe it was so
14. his head at least, and live another wretched year
15. It consisted commonly in a few wretched cattle, maintained altogether by the spontaneous produce of uncultivated land, and which might, therefore, be considered as a part of that spontaneous produce
16. Nor have these publications been all party pamphlets, the wretched offspring of falsehood and venality
17. If you only heard my wretched history, I thought--”
18. It was the kind of silence that he would usually relish during long days, but this time it let all those wretched thoughts run wild again in his head
19. She knew that keeping herself out of some occupation would make the notion of her sister in the hands of those wretched men appear in her mind
20. What changed? Not London and its wretched poor
21. Senta made it up through the most wretched of the lower decks and stumbled up into what had to be the less abused conscripts' 'dormitories
22. It is abandoned to an inferior set of dealers; and millers, bakers, meal-men, and meal-factors, together with a number of wretched hucksters, are almost the only middle people that, in the home market, come between the grower and the consumer
23. ” Aside from Mercer’s consistently wretched temper which likely would have refused the Nord’s inquiry regardless, there was also the obvious issue of the Breton Guild Master’s absence
24. "Well, well! Another one of those wretched citizens of Cardew Street who does not feel the need to pay his council taxes
25. The rest were mere objects of vulgar wonder and curiosity ; some reeds of an extraordinary size, some birds of a very beautiful plumage, and some stuffed skins of the huge alligator and manati ; all of which were preceded by six or seven of the wretched natives, whose singular colour and appearance added greatly to the novelty of the show
26. All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers of the court, ‘Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!’ on which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off
27. He is evidently the more wretched and miserable of the two; because happiness and misery, which reside altogether in the mind, must necessarily depend more upon the healthful or unhealthful, the mutilated or entire state of the mind, than upon that of the body
28. Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of govermnent, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency
29. He is, upon this account, frequently afraid to have a good team of horses or oxen, but endeavours to cultivate with the meanest and most wretched instrutnents of husbandry that he can
30. Though, in consequence of this wretched cultivation, the market is, no doubt, somewhat worse supplied; yet the small rise of price which this may occasion, as it is not likely even to indemnify the farmer for the diminution of his produce, it is still less likely to enable him to pay more rent to the landlord
31. harming the wretched females!” he calmed down somewhat
32. By this time the cavalry were starting to deploy along the creek; but when the wretched balloon had finally received its quietus, and sunk amid the curses of the men stricken through its agency by an unseen fire, the enemy had exactly ranged the line of the road, and were apprised that a general advance was taking place
33. The poor little one was thus as wretched as a child could be and used
34. made him climb up into the loft where he had his wretched cubbyhole
35. wretched a Christmas as this poor creature was
36. What we are witnessing today, however, especially in the more wretched urban environments, is a conspicuous absence of purposeful ―genius‖ attributable less to inherent factors than the prevailing influence of a McDonald‘s-like mentality that seems to promote the lowest forms of culture that baser designs have to offer
37. Transitional elements, as emerging possibilities present themselves, are oftentimes prone to violence because of rising expectations; unlike a society‘s wealthier segments who, lacking little in the way of material comfort, are ―stable‖, as a rule, or (ironically), the abject poor who, (temporarily) resigned to their wretched living conditions, are equally ―at ease‖ in a dormant stage of transition waiting for such an opportunity when there will be reason enough for hope or ―change‖
38. All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers of the court, 'Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!' on which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off
39. Furthermore, ‘rescue teams’ from units of the Guardia Nacional, were video taped dynamiting damaged building with the wretched pleas of trapped victims clearly discernable before the blast
40. In a wretched mood, François stormed across the lawn demanding an immediate explanation when he finally located Caroline outside, by the front gate
41. He's turned a young innocent woman into an old, evil, wretched hag
42. When they retrieved him from the water, crewmembers gasped, wretched and blessed themselves
43. They knew not where to look, so they cruised the streets of wretched poverty and questioned a few whose misfortune it was to call this place home if they knew of Herminia, her ‘mother’ or her three children, to no avail
44. They were coming to love what they thought I could be, not the wretched thing I was
45. Barely edible, they’d wretched his middle far worse than even the emptiness had, but many times they’d ended up soothing his hunger and his expertise in recognizing wild edibles had grown
46. She looked so wretched
47. That was short lived sentiment, as I later learned the full extent of the unforgivable damage he and his wretched wife had inflicted upon my nephews and nieces
48. As soon as this wretched war is over
49. But there it is--there's only two men in the Glen I'd ever want to talk to--and what with gossip and this wretched love-making business it's not likely I'll ever see either of them again
50. She had woken to the wretched escape of Cinder and Wynne