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  • How many men had the snot-nosed little wretch sent through that door already?†   (source)
  • Sometimes I sing to myself, in my head; something lugubrious, mournful, presbyterian: Amazing grace, bow sweet the sound Could save a wretch like me, Wbo once was lost, but now am found, Was bound, but now am free.†   (source)
  • I will deal with this wretch.†   (source)
  • "Good God, are you planning to slit me open, you little wretch?" she snapped at him.†   (source)
  • I don't know what I expected to see as I drew nearer, what terrified peasant or farmer, what miserable wretch that had already seen the face of that thing that had brought it here.†   (source)
  • As we turned to leave, we bumped into a wretch.†   (source)
  • She almost feels sorry for him, the pusillanimous wretch.†   (source)
  • "AND ALL BECAUSE OF THAT STUBBORN WRETCH AZAZ," roared the Mathemagician, completely overwhelming the bug, for now his sadness had changed to fury and he stalked about the room adding up anger and multiplying wrath.†   (source)
  • Give me no riddles, you fork-tongued wretch!†   (source)
  • And beautiful: need not have withered her nights and wasted her body on a bony, shivering wretch.†   (source)
  • Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake.†   (source)
  • The people outside, maintaining their vigil, had begun to sing: Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound...That saved a wretch like me.†   (source)
  • It was the rare wretch who had to beg for coppers or a woolen blanket.†   (source)
  • I wish I could lay my hands on the wretch.†   (source)
  • The robber was pursued and taken in about two miles, and we saw the poor wretch, ghastly and horrible, brought along on foot.†   (source)
  • Under the punishment inflicted by the Council his mercurial spirit had fallen low and he had become the apathetic wretch the sight of whom had so much shocked Bigwig.†   (source)
  • The poor wretch saw all of her family into their graves and then, though barely more than a child, became an alehouse haunter, seeking insensibility in the pot.†   (source)
  • The poor wretch was roasted alive.†   (source)
  • Her neighbors tell Ilda she's crazy, that it's not Javier but just a poor wretch who tripped on the roots of her gardenia tree and drowned.†   (source)
  • On occasion, one or more students who knew the lyrics and were gifted with powerful voices stood in their seats and competed with whatever wretch was unlucky enough to be onstage.†   (source)
  • He would fight, but only as one guilty wretch against the others.†   (source)
  • With a second wink at Dendybar, who was inwardly thoroughly enjoying this game, he answered the poor wretch's unspoken question.†   (source)
  • 'I am a wretch to complain,' the farmer said.†   (source)
  • But Mama yanked down on his bridle and said, "Jumper, you wretch!"†   (source)
  • Believe me, you look upon a wretch who has suffered almost more than any mortal can bear.†   (source)
  • "Here is a marvel indeed," they would say, and make comparisons with ordinary parents who sometimes bore a child of matchless brilliance; or with a devout couple who had brought forth a wretch.†   (source)
  • Then, without looking at the wretch, Joe held out the pan.†   (source)
  • Talk about your lovesick fool, how I exemplified such a wretch!†   (source)
  • When ANNIE lowers her knuckles she looks at blood on them; she works her lips, gets to her feet, finds the mirror, and bares her teeth at herself: Now she is furious herself) You little wretch, no one's taught you any manners?†   (source)
  • You should be sorry for him, the poor wretch, the drunkard.†   (source)
  • Whenever a human being left the front door of his house, legions of mosquitoes with their hypodermic snouts would cover the wretch from head to foot.†   (source)
  • Should he climb down and feel his way through the dark to wherever the poor wretch was?†   (source)
  • Poor, pitiful, shriveled wretch, with a soul so small that a little pelf would outweigh all things else that dignify or ennoble manhood.†   (source)
  • But just as Bilbo was beginning to hope that the wretch would not be able to answer, Gollum brought up memories of...   (source)
    wretch = a person of bad character and/or someone  you feel sorry for
  • And can you love such a mean wretch?   (source)
    wretch = a person of bad character
  • How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me!†   (source)
  • Four of his drowned men waded out to seize the wretch and hold him underwater.†   (source)
  • With that the wretch floundered off into the flood.†   (source)
  • Mark my word, when Gyles dies that ill-born wretch will make off with his gold.†   (source)
  • One of the nasty friends the little wretch had made in his wanderings, he supposed.†   (source)
  • The wretch did have a point about the High Septon, to be sure.†   (source)
  • He motioned for his burly companion to be rid of the annoying little wretch.†   (source)
  • Jaime had been been looking forward to hanging the wretch while his pockets bulged with gold.†   (source)
  • How did some miserable wretch of a gaoler come to have such a coin hidden beneath his chamber pot?†   (source)
  • Manderly has clapped the wretch inside a cell.†   (source)
  • Did he not, in the old days during the Depression, knock on tenant-cabin doors at midnight, did he not drum it into the head of every ignorant hungry wretch who accepted public assistance, whether job or relief money, that his vote was Willoughby's?†   (source)
  • What a self-absorbed little wretch!†   (source)
  • "The wretch is mad, and in pain, and no use to anyone, least of all himself," declared old Ser Harbert, the castellan of Storm's End in those years.†   (source)
  • Did that wretch break the skin?†   (source)
  • Oh, the wretch is dead enough.†   (source)
  • Anyway, I had the miserable wretch who killed the Urgals hanged, but ever since, our relations with Garzhvog's rams have become increasingly precarious.†   (source)
  • Oh Adams, Adams what a wretch thou art!†   (source)
  • Amazing grace how sweet thuh sound
    That saved a wretch like me;
    I once was lost but now I'm found,
    Was blind, but now I see.†   (source)
  • His smile had to be deserved, it was intended for an adversary who traded her strength against his, not for a pain-beaten wretch who would seek relief in that smile and thus destroy its meaning.†   (source)
  • I took this sword from Vrael's hand, and I took this crown from the head of the mewling wretch who wore it before me.†   (source)
  • I am the more thankful to her for all her infinite bounty to such a poor mortal wretch as I. For you must know, Sirs, I am a man under most strange afflictions, and none but the Queen's grace would have had patience with me.†   (source)
  • The poor wretch had returned too late.†   (source)
  • That spring of 1800, the notorious James Callender reemerged, determined to defeat "the wretch" Adams, elect his patron Jefferson, and make himself a martyr.†   (source)
  • "With so many different mothers, a few of the maids are bound to turn up comely," said Ser Marq Piper, "but why should the old wretch give you a pretty one?"†   (source)
  • The nasty creature; the poor wretch!†   (source)
  • Like as not, I'll never see the wretch again, he thought bitterly, but even so the chance had to be taken.†   (source)
  • Now, unless you wish to experience agony the likes of which you cannot imagine, surrender your sword to me, then untie that poor wretch and carry him over to the rest of the bodies.†   (source)
  • Jaime would never send another man to do his killing, and Cersei was too cunning to use a knife that could be traced back to her, but Joff, arrogant vicious stupid little wretch that he was ... He remembered a cold morning when he'd climbed down the steep exterior steps from Winterfell's library to find Prince Joffrey jesting with the Hound about killing wolves.†   (source)
  • Poor wretch!†   (source)
  • He will ask why the United States degrades themselves to the choice of a wretch whose soul came blasted from the hand of nature, of a wretch that has neither the science of a magistrate, the politeness of a courtier, nor the courage of a man?†   (source)
  • He knows, the insolent wretch.†   (source)
  • 'Poor wretch!†   (source)
  • The wretch is dead.†   (source)
  • The Republicans, French agents, and the "lying wretch" Bache intended to abuse and misrepresent the President until they forced him to resign, "and then they will reign triumphant, headed by the man of the people," Jefferson.†   (source)
  • Did that wretch break the skin?†   (source)
  • Abigail mistakenly understood that Jefferson had liberated the "wretch" Callender from jail, and this to her was totally unacceptable, after the attacks Callender had made on Adams, a man, she reminded Jefferson, "for whom you professed the highest esteem and friendship."†   (source)
  • Cersei did not doubt that there were any number of boys who would do more honor to the crystal crown than the wretch on whom the Most Devout had chosen to bestow it.†   (source)
  • You try to lay a little pittance by, you put your money in the bank or you lend it out at a fair rate of interest, you build up a position of authority in the community, and along comes some ugly little wretch—" Her throat convulsed.†   (source)
  • I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.†   (source)
  • It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before.†   (source)
  • I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created.†   (source)
  • But it is true that I am a wretch.†   (source)
  • I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.†   (source)
  • Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded if such a wretch as I felt pride.†   (source)
  • The wretch saw me destroy the creature on whose future existence he depended for happiness, and with a howl of devilish despair and revenge, withdrew.†   (source)
  • Presently I heard the sound of footsteps along the passage; the door opened, and the wretch whom I dreaded appeared.†   (source)
  • The laughter died away, when a well-known and abhorred voice, apparently close to my ear, addressed me in an audible whisper, "I am satisfied, miserable wretch!†   (source)
  • I thought (foolish wretch!)†   (source)
  • Ugly wretch!†   (source)
  • I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.†   (source)
  • Tjaden wins of course, the lucky wretch.†   (source)
  • We say to ourselves that we are a wretch and a traitor.†   (source)
  • But he wasn't such a bad wretch at that.†   (source)
  • And how the wretch that did it escaped scot-free!†   (source)
  • "Miserable wretch that I am!" groaned Jabez Stone.†   (source)
  • This was what that little wretch meant when he said he'd give me something to remember him by!†   (source)
  • "Oh, Captain Butler, what a crafty wretch you are!" she cried, smiling.†   (source)
  • —'passion for living,' but being a poor-spirited wretch—†   (source)
  • What a perverse wretch he was, but how nice he could be at times!†   (source)
  • He had almost seemed like a human being and not the perverse wretch she knew so well.†   (source)
  • And it is not for you to repine when he has money and buys himself another to bring her to his house, for all men are so, and would my old do-nothing also, except the poor wretch has never had enough silver in his life to feed himself even.†   (source)
  • For on the night when Noah was born, Pa, frightened at the spreading thighs, alone in the house, and horrified at the screaming wretch his wife had become, went mad with apprehension.†   (source)
  • I saw this wretch, this brute beast of a Steppenwolf as a fly in a web, and saw too the approaching decision of his fate.†   (source)
  • The frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison.†   (source)
  • I am a wretch.†   (source)
  • You are a clever, black-hearted wretch, Rhett Butler, and you know very well this bonnet's too pretty to be refused.†   (source)
  • Poor wretch, he was potty, of course.†   (source)
  • But even Wang Lung himself forgot, and once they left her outside through a whole night, and the next morning the poor wretch was shivering and crying in the early dawn, and Wang Lung was angry and cursed his son and daughter that they had forgotten the poor fool who was their sister.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said Collective 0-0009, "we have much to say to a wretch who have broken all the laws and who boast of their infamy!†   (source)
  • He was bad enough when he was a speculator during the war and making money out of our hunger but now that he is hand in glove with the Carpetbaggers and Scallawags and a friend—actually a friend of that odious wretch, Governor Bullock— Call, indeed!†   (source)
  • Of all the people in the world to turn up here, this terrible person who had witnessed that scene with Ashley which still gave her nightmares; this odious wretch who ruined girls and was not received by nice people; this despicable man who had said, and with good cause, that she was not a lady.†   (source)
  • He rode slowly under the pine-trees, feeling a cur and a miserable wretch.†   (source)
  • Had my second self taken the poor wretch by the throat?†   (source)
  • Glad at having survived another contact, the wretch in the beret moved away.†   (source)
  • When I heard that, I forgave the poor wretch all the fear he had inspired in me.†   (source)
  • "Yes, your Honour," stammered the poor wretch.†   (source)
  • I do believe that—poor little exquisite wretch!†   (source)
  • The verdict of human nature on such a wretch was death.†   (source)
  • "Why, you little wretch—" cried Amory indignantly.†   (source)
  • Bo, I never did—or I'd never have brought you to this—wretch that I am!" cried Helen.†   (source)
  • I'm going over and pull the wretch's ears.†   (source)
  • If the din meant that now his army's flags were tilted forward he was a condemned wretch.†   (source)
  • Tom was touched, for he knew by his own experience how this wretch had suffered.†   (source)
  • The question now is, what shall we do with this poor wretch's body?†   (source)
  • I asked; but the poor wretch was weeping again over his misfortunes.†   (source)
  • You know what a wretch I've said he was?†   (source)
  • But I am fastened so tight ...Oh, the wretch!†   (source)
  • There was some poor wretch sobbing, she remembered, in the waiting-room.†   (source)
  • I am a wretch—broken by my distractions!†   (source)
  • I hurried forward to pick it up, just in time, for an old wretch in a long kaftan rushed up too.†   (source)
  • My father was slain by just such a wretch as you, in just such a duel, for just such a cause.†   (source)
  • You may call me a dishonourable wretch if I let it go to auction!†   (source)
  • This poor wretch was dressed in your clothes.†   (source)
  • He did try, poor wretch, but, obviously, he could not.†   (source)
  • "Isn't he charming?" she asked Swann, "doesn't he just understand it, his sonata, the little wretch?†   (source)
  • Then shall we make our final coup, and hunt the wretch to his real death.†   (source)
  • Wretch: I wore mourning for him all my life.†   (source)
  • What DOES it matter what my opinions are—a wretch like me!†   (source)
  • Of course I understood, and the little wretch looked at me with a nasty sort of satisfaction.†   (source)
  • You had better stop, you little mischief-making wretch!" cried Varia.†   (source)
  • The little wretch considers me his enemy now and does his best to catch me tripping.†   (source)
  • "A duel!" yelled the old wretch again, breathless and spluttering at each syllable.†   (source)
  • 'But the horrible wretch is never going to swallow him all at once, father?' cried Jack.†   (source)
  • 'Well, and what if he did, you little ungrateful wretch?' said Mrs. Sowerberry.†   (source)
  • The unhappy wretch heard them answer: "No!†   (source)
  • "Come, Axel, come, you miserable wretch," my uncle cried from as far off as he could see me.†   (source)
  • Never in his whole life had M. Geborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch.†   (source)
  • you never knew that there, so near you, so far from you, was a poor wretch!†   (source)
  • What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand!†   (source)
  • 'Wretch,' rejoined Nicholas, fiercely, 'touch him at your peril!†   (source)
  • "The poor wretch!" exclaimed Passepartout, "to be burned alive!"†   (source)
  • "Poor wretch!" he said in a compassionate tone, though his lips trembled a little.†   (source)
  • "The wretch!" said Mrs. Shelby, vehemently.†   (source)
  • I felt disgusted at the little wretch's composure, since he was no longer in terror for himself.†   (source)
  • And this wretch owns that good, faithful Tom, and Eliza's child!†   (source)
  • I am an unlucky wretch; I am left outside.†   (source)
  • He's a pleasant wretch, but he wants principle.'†   (source)
  • 'A bachelor is a miserable wretch, sir,' said Mr Lillyvick.†   (source)
  • Woe betide the wretch who is born to behold this plain, with the judgment hanging about his soul!†   (source)
  • "Don't torture a poor forlorn wretch," he implored them, with a dreadful cry; "but give me my work!†   (source)
  • And he's a scoundrel, a wretch—that's a fact!†   (source)
  • I don't know who he is; he is some vulgar wretch.†   (source)
  • It's not your revolver, it belonged to Marfa Petrovna, whom you killed, wretch!†   (source)
  • You have forgotten that wretch; but he remembers it.†   (source)
  • 'I never see such a hardened little wretch!'†   (source)
  • "Holy father!" said the Jew, "whom could it interest to endanger so poor a wretch as I am?"†   (source)
  • Then aloud, "The friend of THAT WRETCH is capable of everything."†   (source)
  • He was mad then, perfectly mad, and that was my fault, wretch that I am!†   (source)
  • The miserable wretch had fallen a victim to his intemperance.†   (source)
  • The little sly wretch: how dared she not tell me?" cried out Miss Crawley.†   (source)
  • I'm the wretch that did it, sir," said the new member, with a Welleresque nod to Mr. Pickwick.†   (source)
  • Such a brute and a wretch as she must think me!†   (source)
  • You thought it a mercy then, miserable wretch!†   (source)
  • you are scoffing at the provostship, wretch!†   (source)
  • I asked of my cousin, disregarding the old wretch's mockery.†   (source)
  • Ah, poor wretch, when was your lip pressed before by such pure kisses?†   (source)
  • "Ah, wretch!" cried she, "you have basely betrayed me, and still more, you have my secret!†   (source)
  • Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G—" caused him to fall into a singular preoccupation.†   (source)
  • Now I know Mother will shake her head, and the girls say, "Oh, the mercenary little wretch!"†   (source)
  • "To whom are you referring as 'that wicked wretch'?" inquired the prosecutor.†   (source)
  • Isn't that enough for the old wretch, without blows?'†   (source)
  • I am a beggarly contemptible wretch, contemptible!†   (source)
  • I am an impoverished wretch—the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster.†   (source)
  • A poor prisoner, fed on alms and broken victuals; a squalid, disgraced wretch!'†   (source)
  • I see she is a vulgar little wretch, after all.†   (source)
  • "Ha, ha!" she laughed, "you poor wretch!†   (source)
  • If I had not stopped you, that wretch might have had his hands on you now.†   (source)
  • Shrink from the loathsome companionship of this wretch as you would from corruption and disease.†   (source)
  • And you suffer that, you wretch—you, who know his life and his crime?†   (source)
  • Do you love that wretch Heath — ' 'Hush!' cried Mrs. Linton.†   (source)
  • Ah, monseigneur, how dearly have I paid for that fault, unhappy wretch as I am!†   (source)
  • He was a miserable wretch, but her word was more than a law for him.†   (source)
  • "You hated him, and yet you lived," replied Cedric; "wretch!†   (source)
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