miseries
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Seventy pages of footnotes attest to the research he invested in “WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
The practice was first promoted in 1787, by a group of reformers called the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2015
Last week Jacques Callot's 18 etchings on The Miseries and Misfortunes of War were on display in Frankfurt, leading off an exhibition that bore the single-word title "Krieg."
From Time Magazine Archive
First they meet the Luxuries of the Earth, bloated revellers whose banqueting-hall is separated from the cavern of the Miseries only by a thin curtain.
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Bithell, Jethro
Thou Apple-Eating Trayt'riss who began The Wrath of Heav'n, and Miseries of Man, And hast with never-failing diligence, Improv'd the Curse to humane Race e'er since.
From The Pleasures of a Single Life, Or, The Miseries of Matrimony by Anonymous
