How To Use Wretchedness In A Sentence
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Get some water heated," said I; and the wretchedness of our bedless bed and furnitureless room crossed my mind at the same time.
Select Temperance Tracts
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But hunger and wretchedness rise superior to fears in the long run.
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A few pale figures were to be distinguished at the accustomed resort at the Tuileries; they wondered wherefore the islanders should approach their ill-fated city -- for in the excess of wretchedness, the sufferers always imagine, that their part of the calamity is the bitterest, as, when enduring intense pain, we would exchange the particular torture we writhe under, for any other which should visit a different part of the frame.
III.4
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He does deserve some good luck after so much wretchedness.
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the grey wretchedness of the rain
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The sweat of my fear stung the cut on my head, my eyes burned with rage and unshed tears, and a wretchedness of shame at my own stupid ignorance.
Brush of Darkness
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What I ended up not liking, actually detesting with a burning passion, was the sheer wretchedness of the text in the piece and the excessive self-consciousness in which they made reference to the painterly/artistic process.
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He nodded repeatedly as if carried away by wretchedness and frustration.
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But, he failed to mention that, with that knowledge comes misery and wretchedness, pain and suffering.
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I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
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And when Dr. Martineau talks of the "natural penalties for guilt," and adds that "sin being there, it would be simply monstrous that there should be no suffering and would fully justify the despair which now raises its sickly cry of complaint against the retributory wretchedness of human transgression" (_Study_ II., p. 106), the reply is that there are no such things as "_natural_ penalties for guilt.
Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
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the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
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My first knowledge of their wretchedness was a thing which sank deep.
His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
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By the utmost self-violence I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice.
Frankenstein
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He nodded repeatedly as if carried away by wretchedness and frustration.
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The misery which checks the pulse and thrills the heart with pity in one's common walks about the great cities of Europe is hardly so saddening as the nameless, mocking wretchedness of these women, to whom poverty were a luxury, and houselessness as a draught of pure, free air.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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How many old labourers, old operatives, or miners are now left to recall the wretchedness of that toiling and starving childhood before the corn-tax was removed?
Essays in Rebellion
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Already I hear it, while guardian angels, attendant on humanity, their task achieved, hasten away, and their departure is announced by melancholy strains; faces all unseemly with weeping, forced open my lids; faster and faster many groups of these woe-begone countenances thronged around, exhibiting every variety of wretchedness -- well known faces mingled with the distorted creations of fancy.
II.6
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The old governor, who had purposely been more circumvolute even than usual, in order not too suddenly to shock his feelings, looked up at him with a kind expression, which showed that he truly entered into his wretchedness.
The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea
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But there are fissures in the cocky exterior that occasionally reveal a rage and a wretchedness that seems to border on despair.
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I can respect a _soul_, sir," replied Emma, warmly, -- "a soul made in the image of God, though it were sunk in the very depths of pollution and wretchedness; and so can the 'Great and Holy One,' Mr. Sliver, or he never would have sent his Son to redeem the world.
Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner
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On visits to the West of Ireland in 1847 he saw scenes of such misery and wretchedness that ‘might have driven a wise man mad.’
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Huge iron-clasped books lay before this ominous specimen of pinguitude — the records of the realm of misery, in which office he officiated as prime minister; and had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him at considering the mass of human wretchedness which must needs be registered in these fatal volumes.
Peveril of the Peak
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If there be institutions or measures inconsistent with immutable rectitude, they are fostered only under the ban of a righteous God; they inwrap the germs of their own harvest of shame, disorder, vice, and wretchedness; nay, their very prosperity is but the verdure and blossoming which shall mature the apples of Sodom.
The American Union Speaker
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Let us therefore, upon the sight of our wretchedness, fly and venturously leap into the arms of Christ, which are now as open to receive us into his bosom as they were when nailed to the cross.
The Riches of Bunyan
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Such hordes of beastly wretchedness and inarticulate misery are no compensation for a millionaire brewer who lives in a West End palace, sates himself with the sensuous delights of London's golden theatres, hobnobs with lordlings and princelings, and is knighted by the king.
HOPS AND HOPPERS
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I shall not close this, till I have seen or heard from the vile miscreant who has involved a worthy family in wretchedness!
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
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the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
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Age after age has passed away, for no other purpose than to behold their wretchedness. Thomas Paine
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You had far better all die -- _die immediately_, than live slaves, and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
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They try so hard to please their parents and even harder to understand them, and their resulting wretchedness is one of the most haunting subplots of the novel.
Suburbs of Our Discontent
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He has to wait in the church for the other confessors to finish, which leaves him plenty of time to keep meditating on the wretchedness of his sins.
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Good, as goodness might be measured in their particular class, hard-working for meagre wages and scorning the sale of self for easier ways, nervously desirous for some small pinch of happiness in the desert of existence, and facing a future that was a gamble between the ugliness of unending toil and the black pit of more terrible wretchedness, the way whereto being briefer though better paid.
Chapter 6
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I never write 'valetudinarian' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents;
Mark Twain's Speeches
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Poor Admiral Boxer has fallen a victim to its remorseless gripe, and is buried at the head of the harbour, where he worked so hard, early and late, to endeavour to rescue Balaklava from the plague-stricken wretchedness in which he found it a few months before.
Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
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The wretchedness of her expression wrenched his heart, but he made no move toward her.
The Unforgiven
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He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.
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In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation.
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What was it specially that he called wretchedness?
The Argonauts
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By such an estimate, nearly the whole number are accounted for by wretchedness, that is by economic causes, alone
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
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he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness
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Huge iron-clasped books lay before this ominous specimen of pinguitude -- the records of the realm of misery, in which office he officiated as prime minister; and had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him at considering the mass of human wretchedness which must needs be registered in these fatal volumes.
Peveril of the Peak
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The opening scene is an interview - about the wretchedness of conditions in the theatre, poking fun at the cumbersome bureaucracy which soils it.
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But the statistics alone, as horrifying as they are, hardly convey the trauma, pain and wretchedness of the victims.
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Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs, and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!
Chapter 23
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Many people around the world experience, at some time or the other in their lifetimes, a feeling of wretchedness, desolation, hysteria and ingratitude within themselves.
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Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown.
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For existentialism defines the human condition as a perpetual beginning, an unfinished finality which, persisting in the depths of our wretchedness as in the heights of our glory, can never be superseded.
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By the utmost self-violence, I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world; and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice.
Chapter 22
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Besides, it gives her a window on community wretchedness and some remarkable efforts to combat it.
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Wretchedness is a contemptible state whose very ignobility motivates ennobling improvement.
A Week To Go
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He insisted that John Law's notes at first restored prosperity, but that the wretchedness and ruin they caused resulted from their overissue, and that such an overissue is possible only under a despotism.
Fiat Money Inflation in France
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They may be fierce and terrible, they may bring wretchedness and ruin, they may 'demoralize' armies and people, they may be dreadful evils, and leave long trails of desolation, but they are none the less wars for victories in which men will return thanks while the world shall stand.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Hunger and wretchedness rise superior to fears in the long run.
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It is of course self-evident that poverty should not degenerate into wretchedness, which is no less an abundant source of moral dangers than is excessive wealth.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
