wretchedness

Example Sentences

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Peace, Tempter, Peace, who artfully betrayest me, And then upbraidest the Wretchedness thou'st made.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague

Wretchedness encompassed me, but I was not wretched.

From Sight Unseen by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Nothing remains but Wretchedness and Woe; Monelia's gone; Monelia is no more.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Next was considered "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance."

From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith

The further history of Lucien de Rubempre belongs to the Splendour and Wretchedness of Courtezans.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick