Posts, and rails, and old cautions to trespassers, and backs of mean houses, and patches of wretched vegetation, stared it out of countenance.
The carnage had the desired effect: the poor and wretched were driven from the fields, leaving the way clear for Zimbabwe's military chiefs to move in.
He himself realized that it was a wretched thing to have dragged in.
Let the echoes of doom resound across this wretched world, that all who live may hear them and despair.
In late October 1947, oppressed with "wretched health", Orwell recognised that his novel was still "a most dreadful mess and about two-thirds of it will have to be retyped entirely".
It was not to amuse myself that I went: I was often wretched all the time.
I've never felt sohappy, delirious, guilty and wretched all at the same time in my whole am I going to do next?
Most courteously they lead him into a wretched suburb, put his head on a stone, and slit his throat.
the wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages(bGeorge Orwell)
“All these feelings welled upin the week before the war, sweeping through the nation in a tide of insanity,”says Mr Segev. “The people had not felt this wretched and isolated since the Holocaust.”
Even the wretched euro zone has a few racy emerging markets nearby.
I have been so happy to possess you, and am now so wretched as to be forced to fly from you.
If a wretched man has a vices, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, and droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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