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Sentence Examples
| It was, evidently, some poor penniless wretch trying to keep from freezing to death on the coldest day of the year. |
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| Poor wretch, the officers tell me that he was caught robbing a loaf of bread from the basket of a wealthy Lady who had bought it. |
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| My hits did go up to about 200 since yesterday so why am I being an ungrateful wretch? |
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| He watched the poor wretch the commanding officer was lecturing, and looked on him with little pity. |
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| Know that I have nothing but contempt for your concern, you pompous wretch. |
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| I need hardly add that this particular young wretch will be taking the train or walking in future. |
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| The wretch simply ran madly from his hovel and took chase through his so-called garden. |
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| But then, we realize that if we do not help this poor wretch, it is going to turn out that, when we need help, no one will come to our aide. |
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| There had been such pain in his red-rimmed eyes, that she could gladly have throttled the wicked wretch that had brought him to such a pass. |
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| Here, alas, an ink-stained wretch fell behind in his polysyllabic note-taking. |
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| Tony Williams is a pitiful wretch, on the jetsam on the shore of the Anacostia. |
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| The priestesses and priests turning towards the setting sun, the dwelling of the infernal gods, devoted with curses the sacrilegious wretch. |
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| Jones proves to be a sympathetic director, coaxing Pepper to one of his most convincing performances as a callous, black-hearted wretch. |
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| It rather appears that your job of spiritual adviser is being undermined by your brother, the grasping wretch. |
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| Later he went abroad and the misfortunate wretch got shell-shocked in some foreign war. |
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| It may be just a smear to you, mate, but it's life and death to some poor wretch. |
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| I happen to know that miserable wretch intimately, as I stare at him each morning in the mirror. |
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| I forgive you, you ungrateful wretch, for you are my brother's son. |
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| Shah Alam II ruled well until his eighties and died as a sightless wretch dressed in rags when an army from Bengal led by General Gerald Lake stormed Delhi and Agra. |
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| Do we identify with the ungainly, terrified wretch who will soon be dead meat, or do we get a thrill imagining ourselves as the sleek, athletic predator? |
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| At any other time, it was a cold, meat-locker-lit, inconsiderately furnished wretch of a room, with service that defined insolence and cooking steeped in indolence. |
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| With any given victim, Tammaro slowly shifted from an omnicompetent dazzler to a pitiable wretch buffaloed by circumstance. |
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| I sat the thankless wretch down, and asked him what he wanted out of life. |
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| One poor wretch, pressed against the car window at a Delhi traffic light, tries to change a dollar bill she presumably cadged off a tourist. |
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| If only he had got his hands on one before bidding farewell to the trading floor to become an impoverished inky-fingered wretch instead. |
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| Almost blind man and poor wretch, it will have to remain while being delivered to the begging. |
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| Because I get it back from the worthless wretch who stole it, from the woman who robbed the dead and the living. |
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| But remember, I only have to cough and my guards will chase you out of Mabudi, you ungrateful, selfish wretch! |
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| Think of him as a poor wretch who is to be pitied rather than envied, for he is very near death. |
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| Beg someone to help me remember, like some poor wretch starved of memories? |
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| With that the wretch died, and they exposed his body in the ditch of the city, and the dogs devoured it. |
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| Pressing a hand over his mouth, he stifled the wretch he could not keep down, pushing out a hand in front of him to wave the door which was already slightly ajar open. |
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| The poor wretch working the steady cam must have been exhausted. |
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| Do you realize what this means for me, you ungrateful wretch? |
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| And what's wrong with the CD player we just bought you, you ungrateful wretch, it's a perfectly good make and it's probably made in the same factory as Sony anyway! |
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| If I say to a wicked man: Wicked wretch, you are to die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked man to renounce his ways, then he shall die for his sin, but I will hold you responsible for his death. |
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| If the sponsor or sponsors of this bylaw before council know what is best for me and are trying to protect me from myself, then I will have to be known as an ungrateful wretch. |
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| During Joey Smallwood's retirement years, when he was abandoned by every ungrateful wretch that he had plucked from anonymity during his premiership, it was Steve who stood by him and carried the torch. |
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| It is about a sports relay team in 1970s America who accidentally kill a wretch who, in esoteric language, might be known as a Fetch … a discarnate entity in physical form. |
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| How could you let yourself be shorn like a sheep, you wretch, yelled her mother, biting her lip and then reproaching herself for what she had said. |
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| So you are the one who is at the bottom of this, you wretch you! |
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| Yesterday, Mr Barón Crespo said to Mr Tajani, for whom we all have high regard: Calla, desgraciado', which, when translated, means shut up, you wretch! |
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| The poor wretch, who lay motionless a long time, just began to recover his senses as a stage-coach came by. |
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| However, being an inky-fingered wretch at heart, when printing he switches to 12-point Times New Roman, the godfather of many a modern font family, including Georgia. |
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| I asked that selfish wretch, Winterblossom, to walk down with me to view her distress, and the heartless beast told me he was afraid of infection! |
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| Noting this penury, to my selfe I said, An if a man did need a poyson now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here liues a Caitiffe wretch would sell it him. |
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| Many a wretch who has been drawn upon a hurdle, has done less mischief than those barterers of forged lies, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. |
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| The wretch had the pernicious habit of writing in Milanese dialect. He was doubly wretchful when he took the liberty of giving birth to parodies of the Divine Comedy. |
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| I should have your throat cut for cowardice you miserable wretch! |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Even the pavement artist will destroy his work rather than allow some poor wretch to sit beside his pictures and collect an alms. |
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| Decoud thought that it was a thousand pities the wretch had not died of fright. |
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| Even bambino, wretch that he was, had known what it was to love, and he sighed for her misery. |
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| But why contaminate my name, by connecting it, in this instance, with such a wretch? |
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| This poor wretch from Exeter had not a stiver about him, so they refused to shift him. |
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| Let the plague choke him with his considerateness, the wretch, the cut-throat that he is! |
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| She was a wretch, and he this time thought himself for ever cured of his passion. |
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| There was no difficulty in obtaining this lettre de cachet, and the poor wretch was arrested and taken to the Bastille. |
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| I said I'd risk appearing the crassest, contradictoriest wretch that ever drew breath. |
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| What a wretch must I be, if, for one moment only, I could lend an ear to such a proposal as this! |
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| Who was the libelous wretch who said that the flowers of California had no perfume and the birds there had no song? |
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| Even old Solara himself, hardened and despicable wretch as he is, will not seek to inculpate him. |
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| You don't yet know what it is to be a sickly wretch, dependent on these skyey influences. |
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| I forced that much from the Chilcat when I had the measly wretch upon his back. |
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| He looked round at the strangers, and felt like a wretch who was gagged and might say nothing. |
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| I should be the most ungrateful wretch in the world, if I were to make him unhappy. |
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| He selected a wretch named blackhead, who had formerly been convicted of perjury and sentenced to have his ears clipped. |
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| She desired to convert some one, to recover some estray, to reform some wretch. |
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| Scott Gholson was the only one of us who could give that wretch that title. |
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| You're at the mercy of the vilest wretch that's got an ounce of gold in his filthy poke. |
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| Yet the superscription is of his dictating, I dare say, for he is a formal wretch. |
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| The pacificator of kingdoms did the same, but the poor wretch could not himself get up again without our assistance. |
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| He is certainly an intriguing wretch, and full of inventions. |
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| You have my heartiest congratulations for capturing such a wretch. |
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| When he had finished, the wretch protruded his black lips, no doubt, with the object of kissing the beautiful hand which had just succoured him. |
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| Woe betide the unfilial wretch who neglected the tomb of his father! |
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| I am the King mussel, doomed to be a mussel so long as that wretch lived. |
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| How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? |
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| She wormed out of the besotted wretch the secrets of our Order. |
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| This red-handed wretch will try to marry some aristocratic heiress. |
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| He pipeth, weary wretch and worn, A roundel shrill and obsolete. |
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| Call yourself any names you like, but I am neither a rascal nor a wretch and I don't choose to be called so. |
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| Tom was touched, for he knew by his own experience how this wretch had suffered. |
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| I cried, hurriedly, as I poked at the somnolent wretch with my cane. |
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| He was a very unsatisfactory steward and a miserable wretch besides, but I would just as soon think of tweaking his nose. |
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| I'm bound to admit that a more unshaven, unshorn, unkempt, and uneverything wretch I never saw outside the ancient and honorable order of tramps. |
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| I am an impoverished wretch the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster. |
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| I wonder not that the wretch is said to love you the better for it. |
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| I know that this wretch will, if he can, be his own judge, and mine too. |
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| We wondered what had become of the wretch, and made a hurried investigation amongst our portable property. |
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| When I heard that, I forgave the poor wretch all the fear he had inspired in me. |
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| Forget the deserted wretch who breathes his heartfelt prayers for your happiness, and who will ever remain your friend and well-wisher. |
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| I do not blame her so much, though, as I do that wretch of a catchpole. |
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| I hurried forward to pick it up, just in time, for an old wretch in a long kaftan rushed up too. |
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| Often he cursed himself as a wretch for paining that pure and noble heart. |
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| Soon afterward the unhappy wretch received sentence of death, and was remanded to the county jail to await the inexorable vengeance of the law. |
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| The lively wretch has made me a visit, and is but just gone away. |
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| I am the vilest wretch that ever disgraced the face of this green earth. |
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| They say he couldn't look such a miserable, hangdog wretch for nothing. |
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| Hardly was the thing done before another poor wretch was brought up, like an ox to the slaughter. |
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| If you marry Miss Vanstone, you make this wretch your sister-in-law. |
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| He has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the coco-nuts and bread-fruit. |
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| Then shall we make our final coup, and hunt the wretch to his real death. |
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| If the poor wretch waked in the flames and perished, no one cared. |
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| When about to be sent to the same market, an older sister went to the shambles, to plead with the wretch who owned them, for the love of God, to spare his victims. |
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| Marry, NO man SAW the killing, but this Unknown saw this hardy wretch near to the spot where the stag lay, and came with right loyal zeal and betrayed him to the forester. |
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| I live here in the wilderness upon roots and rinds, and may not receive into my dwelling even the poorest wretch that lives, unless it were to save his life. |
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| Trent was pronouncing an encomium upon his wife, and they were both wondering by what enchantment she had been brought to marry such a misshapen wretch as he. |
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| At least, the unhappy wretch upon whom your anger falls receives from you, however culpable he may be, his daily bread though moistened by his tears. |
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| I should think myself a miser, a selfish wretch, if I had kept them any longer. |
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| I hobbling over the ground like some decrepid wretch, and Toby leaping forward like a greyhound. |
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| A boy lifted his hand and flung a rotten egg at the pilloried wretch. |
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| Is this the way you show your obedience, you undutiful wretch? |
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| Be off, you wretch, outside, and eat your supper there, or you shall be driven out with a firebrand. |
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| His pitying eyes searched the lineaments of the poor wretch. |
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| There had been none while their possessor had been pummeling the wretch. |
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