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Steppenwolf
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That day, too, however, he came back in the evening, sad, and wretched as usual.†
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wretched = miserable or very bad
It was one of those little books wretchedly printed on wretched paper that are sold at fairs, "Were you born in January?" or "How to be twenty years younger in a week."†
The morning was a wretched time of day for him.†
I cool with the snow my burning jowl, And on to the devil my wretched soul I bear.†
We went into the dining room, and while I racked my brains again and again for something harmless to say, I ate more than I was accustomed to do and felt myself growing more wretched with every moment.†
For moments together my heart stood still between delight and sorrow to find how rich was the gallery of my life, and how thronged the soul of the wretched Steppenwolf with high eternal stars and constellations.†
He took milk and medicine to him in his attic, and a wretched one it was.†
With trembling hand I opened the door and found myself in the booth of a fair with an iron rail separating me from a wretched stage.†
My engaging double suddenly with a low reverence laid his whip at the wolf's feet and became as agitated, as shrunken and wretched, as the wolf had been before.†
You think of your readers, those carrion feeders, and all your typesetters, those wretched abettors, and saber-whetters.†

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