1 Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. Thomas Fuller 

2 Guy felt wretched about it now.

3 The house was in a wretched state.

4 I felt wretched about the way things had turned out.

5 Where is that wretched boy?

6 I was shocked to see their wretched living conditions.

7 The wretched car won't start!

8 He was wretched when he failed the examination.

9 Is it that wretched woman again?

10 I feel really confused and wretched.

11 Please excuse this wretched apology for a meal.

12 It's that wretched cat again!

13 She had a wretched time of it at school.

14 My wretched car's broken down again.

15 We have sorted out this wretched business at last.

16 The animals are kept in the most wretched conditions.

17 What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

18 The hotel food was absolutely wretched.

19 She finally agreed to have the wretched animal put down.

20 That wretched child I'll swing for him one of these days!

21 You look wretched—what's wrong?

22 The wretched man never answered her questions!

23 I have tasted Vegemite and wretched.

24 What was the wretched man doing on board, anyway?

25 The walk from the Shoe Barn had been wretched.

26 He looked really wretched and crestfallen.

27 Selling municipal bonds in Atlanta was unthinkably wretched.

28 You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.

29 I think I must be coming down with flu - I've been feeling wretched all day.

30 Until her mother's arrival, Halen was thoroughly beaten down and wretched.

1 Guy felt wretched about it now.

2 The house was in a wretched state.

3 You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve.

4 I felt wretched about the way things had turned out.

5 He was wretched when he failed the examination.

6 Please excuse this wretched apology for a meal.

7 What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

8 You look wretched—what's wrong?

31 You're becoming utterly spoiled by that wretched woman.

32 Presently he trudged on, alone and wretched.

33 And wretched they were, too, the poor hungry dupes.

34 I felt so wretched, because I thought I might never see you again.

35 Through nostrils she smelled the fear and the death in this wretched band more powerfully.

36 This wretched man knows quite well he is doing wrong in taking my eggs.

37 The weekend was one of the most wretched she had ever known.

38 The really wretched thing is, it can only get worse for me.

39 I don't know how long I shall be laid up with this wretched ankle.

40 Unfolding my wretched map, I used gestures to ask them to indicate our location.

41 I should, of course, do myself no favour by dumping property on the market in its present wretched state.

42 I've known the wretched man for less than a week!

43 To her annoyance, she was still thinking about the wretched man when lunchtime came and went.

44 For one thing, he chose to carry out the essential cell fusion with Sendai virus-but Sendai virus is wretched.

45 They await the general election with enthusiasm because they want this wretched Government out of office.

46 I spent hours with that wretched boy evading his questions and seeming more stupid by the minute.

47 But whereas the wretched Io had to pay dearly for the distinction, Europa was exceedingly fortunate.

48 She found Wynne-Jones resting in the overhang of a rocky outcrop, exhausted, wretched, starving.

49 I've been feeling so wretched these past two weeks because we've been apart.

50 But such conversations, unless they spring up spontaneously among friends, are usually poor and wretched things.

51 I found the wretched machine later, in the new extension.

52 He could have waited, got Hencke back home before making his wretched announcement, keep us unawares.

53 I was trotted out at these wretched award banquets like the March of Dimes child.

54 Intricate issues were summarized in a few phrases or reduced to a line of wretched verse....

55 There was nothing to do but put the wretched thing on.

56 The man laughed, and the others joined him but none of the neophytes felt differently about their wretched lot in life.

57 I don't want to have Nicky Scott Wilson fussing round me like a wretched nanny while you're away.

58 And the wretched thing is that Gore is no better placed.

59 He felt wretched,() in fact at times so miserable that he wanted to laugh out loud.

60 But that wretched Sandra would have had a field day too - her picture in the local rag in her best dress.

61 It was a venue of pathos and prayers, a wretched place for passengers concerned with their welfare.

62 Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him.

63 Edward, utterly wretched, put his arms about her and she raised her mouth to his.

64 She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow.

65 Another child makes the family wretched with his crying for the better part of an hour.

66 Deceived by unscrupulous men, he vouched for the authenticity of that wretched diamond mine.

67 He was always finding some excuse to hold that wretched girl.

68 Either that, or she made up her mind to marry the wretched fellow.

69 But one can only take just so much wretched excess and conspicuous consumption.

70 It was a Skein of Geese envelope, with three of the wretched birds embossed in brown on heavy cream vellum.

71 When Captain Cook arrived, as he invariably did, they were so wretched they traded even their sacred carvings.

72 I had to get a grip on myself and put this whole wretched business behind me.

73 Why couldn't she put the image of that wretched man out of her mind?

74 Billy lay on the bed, wretched and close to tears.

75 It multiplied capital punishment for the most wretched categories of offenders.

76 Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. Anthony Burgess 

77 She was alone in this isolated house and not a soul knew she was here except that wretched Marie.

78 Why don't we shoulder all the burdens of this wretched country?

79 She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched.

80 Even after the fire, Garvey had never looked so wretched.

81 He did kiss me back then, as if he wanted to press his wretched thin inhibited mouth right through my head.

82 That wretched old ben Issachar did the cruellest thing possible to Anya - he put her, indefinitely, on hold.

83 He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

84 Hencke had discovered during the last few days of wretched weather that doorways were not all the same.

85 I shall have travelled away in the flesh from that wretched court - light years away by then, light decades.

86 Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune. Seneca 

87 This really is the most wretched country you could imagine.

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88 How was I to know she'd meet that wretched man?

89 The rock was coated with globs of the wretched rockweed.

90 Why in such wretched circumstances, faced by such great dangers, did they still prosecute these petty feuds?

91 With a violent drunkard for a husband, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror.

92 They were no longer the oppressed, wretched teen menials who must take orders, toe the line.

93 This wretched war has brought misery to millions.

94 The pay has always been wretched.

95 She lamented to us about her wretched lot.

96 Oh, wretched I, to whom this mischance is happened!

97 You are wretched , disunited individuals.

98 It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency.

99 Wretched daughter! How dare she disobey her father's wishes!

100 The Independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge.

101 There is no act more wretched than stealing, Amir.

102 It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!

103 Its financial condition was wretched.

104 So bow down and face your wretched destiny.

105 That split second, we all seemed to hear an extreme wretched interjection, from the coffin in spread out, I frighten of hand a soft, the gun almost sells.

106 Aziraphale looked wretched. "If you must know, " he said, a trifle testily, "I gave it away."

107 We'll flash back to 1491 to see Katherine's first meeting with Klaus and Elijah (yes, Daniel Gillies returns) and we'll see where that wretched moonstone curse originated.

108 Wretched flocks of maids labour so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

109 All the merriment had gone out of the day . He was disturbed , wretched, resentful.

110 Wretched hives of scum and villainy always have the best music.

111 Not as wretched as the doomsters claim; but reviving the British economy will take time.

112 He is a wretched idle layabout never done a day's work in his life.

113 Then you condemn me to live wretched and to die accursed?

114 Her ugly appearance and wretched humpbacked addition is a perfect match, more it is to let the hunchback helps her raising two young teenage daughter.

115 Those wretched Japanese had set it on fire. The damage was simply inestimable.

116 She came in and sat down at her place , feeling exceedingly wretched.

117 What a wretched excuse.

118 If I'd known I wouldn't have threatened you about that wretched Bantu girl.

119 It was dark(http:///wretched.html), it was dank. And it was full of a wretched stench.

120 What a wretched existence these people lead in the slums!

121 Theft is something that really disgusts me. It makes me feel hateful towards this whole wretched island.

122 Those words drive me to intercede for these wretched souls who are false teachers.

123 We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

124 The shame of all : to lose so much money by being so stupid was bone - crushingly wretched.

125 Soon, a conjurator of wretched appearance invited to the funeral.

126 There are miserable things outside. People go a - begging. Women are wretched.

127 Lao Zhang feels very wretched because his illness isn't getting any better.

128 Though I am poor and wretched now, my progenitors were famously wealthy.

129 He scolded her, telling her that there was no honor in what she was doing, that ultimately she could still help Bant if she would just return and that she was wasted in a wretched place like Urborg.

130 What a wretched existence the people in the slum lead!

131 Here , in the wretched room, her father's moaning was the dominant note and seemed irrefutable.

132 As an 1825 poem has it: "Fearing the winters/ Endless and icy/ Nobody will visit/ This wretched country/ This vast prison house for exiles."

133 Aunt Tranter backed him up, and he was accordingly granted an afternoon for his " wretched grubbing " among the stones.

134 The Ocean, that hospitable friend to the wretched, opened her capacious arms to receive Jones.

135 But the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

136 Then, by one of those convulsive, motiveless actions by which the wretched leap from temporary sorrow to life-long misery, she determined to marry Adam.

137 Mr Beattie contrasts how much more cannily Botswana has managed its diamond wealth compared with Sierra Leone's wretched squanderings.

138 Lets see how the power of Subconscious mind can help out the wretched Shopaholic.

139 I have to read these lines again: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."

140 A little, wretched, despicable creature, a worm, a mere nothing...that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth- Jonathan Edwards.

141 Wretched woman, he thought, why the hell can't she wait?

142 Once an old peddler drifted in, selling wretched, ill - made nameplate signs.

143 For the last month this wretched house had presented the gloomy appearance of a lazaretto infected with the plague.

144 Yet because living on a public sex - offender registry is so wretched, many abscond.

145 They read Sonia's Bible together, Raskolnikov deeply impressed by the wretched girl's faith.

146 The wretched butcher clutched the needle and stitched it clumsily.

147 The hour when ye say: "What good is my happiness! It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself!"

148 Never shall he be wed to the child a wretched soul living in this miserable hovel.

149 They had heard so very little of this; yet it was enough to build up wretched dolorous dreams upon, there in the shade of the night.

150 The remorseless demolition of wretched homes and lives by a mighty high-tech war machine cannot but cause grief and outrage in any decent onlooker.

151 But would you therefore put the wretched cookery-book on a higher level of estimation than the divine poem?

152 When he saw that this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden and allowed it to run to waste.

153 They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.

154 Undead Minion Once living humans, these wretched souls now reside in the depths of Hell.

155 Discovering that I was only self-possessed with peo- ple I knew intimately, I would often go to a strange house where I knew I would spend a wretched hour for schooling sake.

156 The biggest problem with Nike is that its overseas workers make wretched , below - subsistence wages.

157 Under close questioning, the wretched man caved in abjectly and confessed all his misdemeanours.

157 try its best to collect and make good sentences.

158 Following her mother's death, the young girl entered an almshouse, where she spent four years among the most wretched of society's outcasts.

159 His stomach-ache made him feel wretched (ie ill) all day.

160 ' Livesey ,'said the squire,'you will give up this wretched practice at once.

161 Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks.

162 I'm so wretched, you can't help being sorry and pitying me.

163 It was difficult to encounter a wayfarer of more wretched appearance.

164 They were wretched , flimsy things, but cooking - pots of any kind were always difficult to get.