wretchedness

• It was selfish of me to link you with so much wretchedness, and join you with me in bearing the fardel of never-ending anxiety and suspense And who should bear it with you, my dearest Philip, if it is not the wife of your bosom? —  The Phantom Ship
• An unhappy man thinks only of his wretchedness, and people take his night cap for a fool's cap, while, on the other hand, goodness is only esteemed when it is cheerful. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
• I cannot help hoping and believing that before this generation has passed away we shall have advanced a great step toward that good time when poverty and wretchedness, and the human degradation which always follows in its camp, will be as remote from the people of this country as the wolves which once infested its forests It took a day or so for the full effect of the Budget to be understood. —  Lloyd George The Man and His Story
• But it was up-hill work for people who had lived all their life in filth and wretchedness, and progressed but slowly. —  Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught
• Such a visitor has often chased despair from the abode of wretchedness, and filled it with the atmosphere of hope Sidenote: GIVES UP TOBACCO Hence, that he might participate in this joy, and have wherewith to relieve the needy, Mr. Ellerthorpe abstained from the use of tobacco, of which, at one period of his life, he was an immoderate consumer. —  The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe

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