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  • Suffice it to say that occasionally, even today, if some poor, raggedy, nicotine-stained wretch is seen shuffling through town, word will spread that this once was a bright, happy, normal child who had the misfortune of blundering onto Finsterwald's property.†   (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)
  • She almost feels sorry for him, the pusillanimous wretch.†   (source)
  • How many men had the snot-nosed little wretch sent through that door already?†   (source)
  • As we turned to leave, we bumped into a wretch.†   (source)
  • "Good God, are you planning to slit me open, you little wretch?" she snapped at him.†   (source)
  • I will deal with this wretch.†   (source)
  • Give me no riddles, you fork-tongued 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)
  • 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 was roasted alive.†   (source)
  • I wish I could lay my hands on the wretch.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The robber was pursued and taken in about two miles, and we saw the poor wretch, ghastly and horrible, brought along on foot.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • And beautiful: need not have withered her nights and wasted her body on a bony, shivering wretch.†   (source)
  • He would fight, but only as one guilty wretch against the others.†   (source)
  • But Mama yanked down on his bridle and said, "Jumper, you wretch!"†   (source)
  • It was the rare wretch who had to beg for coppers or a woolen blanket.†   (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)
  • Believe me, you look upon a wretch who has suffered almost more than any mortal can bear.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • You should be sorry for him, the poor wretch, the drunkard.†   (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)
  • Poor, pitiful, shriveled wretch, with a soul so small that a little pelf would outweigh all things else that dignify or ennoble manhood.†   (source)
  • Should he climb down and feel his way through the dark to wherever the poor wretch was?†   (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)
  • With that the wretch floundered off into the flood.†   (source)
  • Four of his drowned men waded out to seize the wretch and hold him underwater.†   (source)
  • Jaime had been been looking forward to hanging the wretch while his pockets bulged with gold.†   (source)
  • One of the nasty friends the little wretch had made in his wanderings, he supposed.†   (source)
  • How did some miserable wretch of a gaoler come to have such a coin hidden beneath his chamber pot?†   (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)
  • Manderly has clapped the wretch inside a cell.†   (source)
  • Mark my word, when Gyles dies that ill-born wretch will make off with his gold.†   (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)
  • She and Dill sang: 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.
    A-men.
    Jem wrapped his arms around the pulpit, leaned over, and said in confidential tones, "My, it looks good to see you all this morning.†   (source)
  • Did that wretch break the skin?†   (source)
  • What a self-absorbed little wretch!†   (source)
  • Oh, the wretch is dead enough.†   (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)
  • The poor wretch had returned too late.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Oh Adams, Adams what a wretch thou art!†   (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 ….†   (source)
  • Like as not, I'll never see the wretch again, he thought bitterly, but even so the chance had to be taken.†   (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)
  • The nasty creature; the poor wretch!†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • Poor wretch!†   (source)
  • He knows, the insolent wretch.†   (source)
  • 'Poor wretch!†   (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)
  • The wretch is dead.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Did that wretch break the skin?†   (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--†   (source)
  • But he wasn't such a bad wretch at that.†   (source)
  • Tjaden wins of course, the lucky wretch.†   (source)
  • We say to ourselves that we are a wretch and a traitor.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • You are a clever, black-hearted wretch, Rhett Butler, and you know very well this bonnet's too pretty to be refused.†   (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 am a wretch.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • What poor wretch had strayed to that shore this time?†   (source)
  • The verdict of human nature on such a wretch was death.†   (source)
  • Bo, I never did—or I'd never have brought you to this—wretch that I am!" cried Helen.†   (source)
  • "Yes, your Honour," stammered the poor wretch.†   (source)
  • Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay That made the breeze to blow!†   (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)
  • If the din meant that now his army's flags were tilted forward he was a condemned wretch.†   (source)
  • "Why, you little wretch—" cried Amory indignantly.†   (source)
  • I do believe that—poor little exquisite wretch!†   (source)
  • I'm going over and pull the wretch's ears."†   (source)
  • Tom was touched, for he knew by his own experience how this wretch had suffered.†   (source)
  • When I heard that, I forgave the poor wretch all the fear he had inspired in me.†   (source)
  • The question now is, what shall we do with this poor wretch's body?†   (source)
  • Then shall we make our final coup, and hunt the wretch to his real death.†   (source)
  • He did try, poor wretch, but, obviously, he could not.†   (source)
  • "You know what a wretch I've said he was?†   (source)
  • What DOES it matter what my opinions are—a wretch like me!†   (source)
  • My father was slain by just such a wretch as you, in just such a duel, for just such a cause.†   (source)
  • I hurried forward to pick it up, just in time, for an old wretch in a long kaftan rushed up too.†   (source)
  • I asked; but the poor wretch was weeping again over his misfortunes.†   (source)
  • You may call me a dishonourable wretch if I let it go to auction!†   (source)
  • "Isn't he charming?" she asked Swann, "doesn't he just understand it, his sonata, the little wretch?†   (source)
  • This poor wretch was dressed in your clothes.†   (source)
  • There was some poor wretch sobbing, she remembered, in the waiting-room.†   (source)
  • Wretch: I wore mourning for him all my life.†   (source)
  • Of course I understood, and the little wretch looked at me with a nasty sort of satisfaction.†   (source)
  • I am a wretch—broken by my distractions!†   (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)
  • 'Well, and what if he did, you little ungrateful wretch?' said Mrs. Sowerberry.†   (source)
  • "Poor wretch!" he said in a compassionate tone, though his lips trembled a little.†   (source)
  • "The wretch!" said Mrs. Shelby, vehemently.†   (source)
  • The unhappy wretch heard them answer: "No! no! hang him; there'll be the more fun for us all!"†   (source)
  • Never in his whole life had M. Geborand bestowed alms on any poor wretch.†   (source)
  • What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand!†   (source)
  • "Come, Axel, come, you miserable wretch," my uncle cried from as far off as he could see me.†   (source)
  • 'But the horrible wretch is never going to swallow him all at once, father?' cried Jack.†   (source)
  • Ah! you never knew that there, so near you, so far from you, was a poor wretch!†   (source)
  • 'Wretch,' rejoined Nicholas, fiercely, 'touch him at your peril!†   (source)
  • "The poor wretch!" exclaimed Passepartout, "to be burned alive!"†   (source)
  • Woe betide the wretch who is born to behold this plain, with the judgment hanging about his soul!†   (source)
  • The little sly wretch: how dared she not tell me?" cried out Miss Crawley.†   (source)
  • Ah, monseigneur, how dearly have I paid for that fault, unhappy wretch as I am!†   (source)
  • I felt disgusted at the little wretch's composure, since he was no longer in terror for himself.†   (source)
  • Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G——" caused him to fall into a singular preoccupation.†   (source)
  • I'm the wretch that did it, sir," said the new member, with a Welleresque nod to Mr. Pickwick.†   (source)
  • I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.†   (source)
  • The miserable wretch had fallen a victim to his intemperance.†   (source)
  • He's a pleasant wretch, but he wants principle.'†   (source)
  • And he's a scoundrel, a wretch—that's a fact!"†   (source)
  • 'A bachelor is a miserable wretch, sir,' said Mr Lillyvick.†   (source)
  • "Holy father!" said the Jew, "whom could it interest to endanger so poor a wretch as I am?"†   (source)
  • Come, now! you wanton wretch, were not you apprehended by the watch in that bad company?†   (source)
  • 'I never see such a hardened little wretch!'†   (source)
  • He was a miserable wretch, but her word was more than a law for him.†   (source)
  • "And this wretch owns that good, faithful Tom, and Eliza's child!"†   (source)
  • "Don't torture a poor forlorn wretch," he implored them, with a dreadful cry; "but give me my work!†   (source)
  • I don't know who he is; he is some vulgar wretch.†   (source)
  • But I am a coward and…. a mean wretch.†   (source)
  • He was mad then, perfectly mad, and that was my fault, wretch that I am!†   (source)
  • And you suffer that, you wretch—you, who know his life and his crime?†   (source)
  • Here, bursting into sobs, and raising her eyes to the priest,— "Oh! wretch, who are you?†   (source)
  • I asked of my cousin, disregarding the old wretch's mockery.†   (source)
  • Now I know Mother will shake her head, and the girls say, "Oh, the mercenary little wretch!†   (source)
  • " 'Come,' said the wretch, 'is not peace much better than such a war as that?†   (source)
  • "To whom are you referring as 'that wicked wretch'?" inquired the prosecutor.†   (source)
  • A poor prisoner, fed on alms and broken victuals; a squalid, disgraced wretch!'†   (source)
  • "But she is a vulgar little wretch, remember, all the same," said Newman.†   (source)
  • I am an impoverished wretch—the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster.†   (source)
  • Isn't that enough for the old wretch, without blows?'†   (source)
  • "Ha, ha!" she laughed, "you poor wretch!†   (source)
  • It was a lovely sight, even to me, poor wretch who had never beheld aught beautiful before.†   (source)
  • "It's not your revolver, it belonged to Marfa Petrovna, whom you killed, wretch!†   (source)
  • Ah, poor wretch, when was your lip pressed before by such pure kisses?†   (source)
  • Ah! you old wretch of a mayor, you came here to frighten me, but I'm not afraid of you.†   (source)
  • Shrink from the loathsome companionship of this wretch as you would from corruption and disease.†   (source)
  • If I had not stopped you, that wretch might have had his hands on you now.†   (source)
  • " "Yes, my mother," said Albert, "I will return, and woe to the infamous wretch!†   (source)
  • He is, I say again without disguise, a low mercenary wretch.†   (source)
  • Simpson! turn that drunken wretch out," screamed Mrs. Crawley.†   (source)
  • You are an infamous wretch! you are a liar, a calumniator, a villain.†   (source)
  • "Be off, you wretch!" cried Aramis, throwing his skullcap in his face.†   (source)
  • Ah! you are scoffing at the provostship, wretch!†   (source)
  • I am a beggarly contemptible wretch, contemptible!†   (source)
  • 'A miserable wretch,' exclaimed Mr Knag, striking his forehead.†   (source)
  • Light it, light it, dear, I was a wretch to have prevented you doing it.†   (source)
  • Then he came, the cursed wretch! he came to take possession.†   (source)
  • A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.†   (source)
  • I see she is a vulgar little wretch, after all.†   (source)
  • "Wretch!" she cried, "will you dare to tell me you did not know what you now reproach me with?"†   (source)
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