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In the smouldering fields she would glisten as if oiled, tearing up the wretched earth, humming strange songs under her breath, her flesh rippling.†
p. 7.3

wretched = miserable or very bad
Indeed, why did you insist on following me to this wretched place at all, given your convictions?†
p. 21.6
Your letters cannot be so wretched as that.†
p. 45.6
Her wretched condition will not fail to move.†
p. 95.4
He meant that I had been a slave, and that the savagery of that past left me a ruined being, like some wretched thing pulled smoking from a fire.†
p. 248.1
And what filled my mind in that wretched state were scenes from the past: Willard's attack, that last sad dinner at which I'd caught my final glimpse of Big Kit, the flash of Titch's eyes as the pane of hydrogen exploded in shards between us.†
p. 293.2
And there was the tablet mounted above the hothouse's entrance, the Latin script upon it: Not Unmindful of the Sick and Wretched.†
p. 296.9
She had been born one person on the far side of Africa, and had walked out of the wretched hold of the slaver's boat a second person, an alien on the white sand shores of an alien land.†
p. 317.2
He was a wretched man, a pox, but I did not rejoice at the brutality of his end, however well deserved.†
p. 337.3 *

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