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Examples
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“And is it true, then,” mumbled the paralytic wretch,
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Phinnes and Timothy Murphy testified the same, and to show the bloody disposition of this wretch,
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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Thus there is a word to describe a man who is not so much a poor wretch,
The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920
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What's wrong with thee, when, like a sotted wretch,
On the Nature of Things Titus Lucretius Carus 1910
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This silence, as usual, made my mother still more angry and she shouted: 'You ungrateful wretch,
An Anarchist Woman Hutchins Hapgood 1906
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If Carmen had not chosen to show her power over old "Grizzly Gaylor" by protecting the poor wretch,
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They give of their substance to help the poor wretch,
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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You know well enough that you are a miserable wretch,
Theresa Raquin ��mile Zola 1871
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'Then for a proof -- dismiss and silence that foul-slandering wretch,
Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Was it not he who counselled my mother to order that wretch,
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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