wretches

And as I looked down upon the poor wretches from the break of the poop, standing there in the high place, the vision of my kind down all its mad, violent, and masterful past was strong upon me.

CHAPTER L 2010

And as I looked down upon the poor wretches from the break of the poop, standing there in the high place, the vision of my kind down all its mad, violent, and masterful past was strong upon me.

Chapter 50 1914

They hurried forward, with yells of defiance; but the strength of the garrison, awakened by the flying wretches from the defeat, turned out all its power, and with De Valence at their head, pouring on Kirkpatrick's men, would have overpowered them had not Wallace and his sixty heroes, with desperate determination, cut a passage to them through the closing ranks.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

They called them out by a sort of roll of their nations, one after another, much in the manner in which they called wretches out of their prison to the guillotine.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

“They’ll be here in a minute,” he was told, and sure enough, a bus rolled up loaded with wretches from the local prison.

Why Guns Are Not Toys 2007

All people are miserable wretches, that is the lot of man.

Men Don't Leave Me 2010

I really think the only thing which kept him from killing a few of the wretches was the fear that he might by some chance include the thief in the number, and thus destroy all hope of getting back the stolen gems.

Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme

The wretches were the 8000 Samnite prisoners he had taken at the battle of Præneste, and brought to be killed in the Campus Martius; and with these shocking sounds to mark that he was in earnest, the purple-faced general told the trembling

Young Folks' History of Rome Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Adding to levity, we frequently sang hymns where we referred to ourselves as "wretches" or "worms."

David Dean Bottrell: Leap of Faith 2009

As reporters we should revel in our newly revived role as society's "wretches", the yapping riff-raff who constantly annoy.

Bob Franken: "Gotcha" not "Homers" 2009