All 4 Uses of
wretch
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- An hour or two hence, and the low companions and low habits that I scorn but yield to, will render me less worth such tears as those, than any wretch who creeps along the streets.†
Chpt 2.13 *
- Defarge had but sprung over a railing and a table, and folded the miserable wretch in a deadly embrace—Madame Defarge had but followed and turned her hand in one of the ropes with which he was tied—The Vengeance and Jacques Three were not yet up with them, and the men at the windows had not yet swooped into the Hall, like birds of prey from their high perches—when the cry seemed to go up, all over the city, "Bring him out!†
Chpt 2.22
- "Don't torture a poor forlorn wretch," he implored them, with a dreadful cry; "but give me my work!†
Chpt 3.12
- "Ha, ha!" she laughed, "you poor wretch!†
Chpt 3.14
Definition:
-
(wretch) someone you feel sorry for
or:
a person of bad character