“You might keep in mind that I was injured in the process of rescuing you, ungrateful wretch.”

“The poor wretch working the steady cam must have been exhausted.”

“In those clothes he might have been some derelict wretch out of a poem by one of the wilder romantics, I thought.”

“But there are fissures in the cocky exterior that occasionally reveal a rage and a wretchedness that seems to border on despair.”

“But the statistics alone, as horrifying as they are, hardly convey the trauma, pain and wretchedness of the victims.”

“He would not creep about the country with moaning voice and melancholy eyes, with draggled dress and outward signs of wretchedness.”

“Ye knowen wel that I am poure and olde, kithe your almesse upon me poure wretche.”