Wretchedness

Wretchedness squirms for alleviation, and in the public-house its pain is eased and forgetfulness is obtained.

DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT 2010

Wretchedness is a contemptible state whose very ignobility motivates ennobling improvement.

A Week To Go Steven Barnes 2009

Harlowe: — but it is now Wretchedness! — — Lord be merciful to me, what is to come next?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

When the first Lord of the Rings movie came out, I was mildly impressed, but that was mostly because I hated Tolkien so much (for the reasons why, see my essay To Survive, We Must Kill Our Father - The Wretchedness of Tolkien).

Truer Love Hath No Name mysterg 2003

Wretchedness and strain for another eighteen hours!

Swan Song 2004

Two Poets, and made part of a still larger series united under the title Lost Illusions, the entire work being completed in the Forties with Splendour and Wretchedness of

Balzac 2003

QUOTATION: The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them.

George Washington (1732-99) 1989

Part of the Way, the Wretchedness of our Accommodation exceeds all

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 January 1780 1973

A Mind susceptible of the Feelings of Humanity, an Heart which can be touch'd with Sensibi [li] ty for human Misery and Wretchedness, must reluct and must burn with Resentment and

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1774 1963

Beds on each side, and the lame and sick upon them -- a dreadfull Scene of human Wretchedness.

John Adams diary 21, 15 August - 3 September 1774 1961