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  1. And kept prisoners by them, some in the house, others carried away ... These, wretched ,miscreants held their muskets against us as we came up to receive the sacred
  2. Power. I am a descendant of the Heavenly king and how can I pay tribute to the, wretched ,foreigners. " 1213 A large portion of the war indemnity still remained
  3. In certain revolutions. On February 14, 1846,he put forward his views on" the, wretched ,way in which the famine was being trifled with ", and asked, had not the
  4. Gilbert in September 1890 that he was" physically and mentally ill over this, wretched ,business. I have not yet got over the shock of seeing our names coupled ... in
  5. Of Faith characterizes this transformation of the original words as ", wretched ,English" making the line that replaces the original" laughably bland ". Part
  6. Compensation system. The New York Post called the act" a monstrosity "," a, wretched ,repudiation of democratic principles," while The Nation accused Democratic
  7. Part to play: speaking in a clear voice to the whole world, as well as to our, wretched ,brethren outside this land, it proclaims our war against the occupier. We are
  8. Of English kings. " Therefore he seems to me a very foolish man, and truly, wretched , who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever
  9. Th expectancy and rose of the fair state ";" And I, of ladies most deject and, wretched ,". Many scholars have found it odd that Shakespeare would, seemingly
  10. S first national heroes, a status that did nothing, however,to elevate the, wretched ,living standard of their descendants. The Chilean Patagonia located south of
  11. Between the infamous tyrant Yazidi and the Shah, denouncing the Shah as a ", wretched , miserable man," and warning him that if he did not change his ways the day
  12. Immediate reaction is not known; but on Christmas Day, she told a friar," Oh, wretched ,man! What has he done? ... Pray for him ... I see him rushing towards his ruin
  13. Describes his personal struggle in vivid terms:" But I, wretched ,most, wretched , in the very commencement of my early youth, had begged chastity of Thee, and
  14. It breaks off to make way for a finale that transports us to the brutal and, wretched ,jollity of a Russian church festival. We see a host of gross and savage faces
  15. Has killed Ophelia's father, he is not remorseful, but calls Polonius" Thou, wretched , rash, intruding fool. " The Ghost appears, urging Hamlet to treat Gertrude
  16. Body of his dead rival and exclaimed," There certainly wasn't a bone in this, wretched ,fellow. " According to one account," That same day, all of Odoacer's army who
  17. Men were the final units to cross the Potomac River, returning to Virginia in ", wretched ,condition—completely worn out and broken down. " The Gettysburg Campaign was
  18. At sixteen Augustine moved to Carthage where again he was plagued by this ", wretched ,sin ": For Augustine, the evil was not in the sexual act itself, but rather in
  19. To/toward),and" trans" ( across). * in exclamations, such as me miser am,", wretched ,me" ( spoken by Circe to Ulysses in Ovid's Re medium Morris; note that this is
  20. Which led to unsympathetic elements of the press to describe the birth as" a, wretched ,abortion" and the funeral arrangements as" sickening mummery ". For eight
  21. Has fixed my lot. I follow willingly; and, did I not, Wicked and, wretched ,would I follow still. (Diogenes Laertes quoting Cleanses; quoted also
  22. Columns of smoke ". An American visitor taken to Manchester’s black spots saw ", wretched , defrauded, oppressed,crushed human nature, lying and bleeding fragments ".
  23. Was contrasted with Herberstein's depiction of peasants as being in" a very, wretched ,condition, for their goods are exposed to plunder from the nobility and
  24. We have researched the subject thoroughly—sitting through more than 2,000, wretched , films in the last few years—and we believe that our nominees and award winners
  25. And you eat what you can lay your hands on, watching for the next trick the, wretched ,animals are getting ready to play on you. " In Newfoundland, split peas are
  26. In To Joy eight years earlier. " Victor," Bergman remarked," was feeling, wretched ,and didn’t want to do it; ... he must have been seventy-eight. He was
  27. And hence my rage since I have grasped in the broadest possible sense what, wretched ,means (the depreciation of my good name, my character and my aims) suffice to
  28. Before, he had fought against the money code, and yet he had clung to his, wretched ,remnant of decency. But now it was precisely from decency that he wanted to
  29. In longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off, wretched ,matter and lame Meter; grace't indeed since by the use of some famous modern
  30. Did provoke the neighboring Austro-Hungarian Empire, and spent the night in" a, wretched ,cell. " After deciding to lodge in a good hotel in Slavonic Broad, having
  31. Confessions, Augustine describes his personal struggle in vivid terms:" But I, wretched , most wretched , in the very commencement of my early youth, had begged chastity
  32. Which described the land upstream from the First Cataract, called Kush, as ", wretched , " For more than two thousand years after the Old Kingdom (c.2700-2180 BC)
  33. Money, my good friend, has,I am convinced made HIM at this moment the most, wretched ,of men," adding," With all his excellent qualities, his domestic virtues, his
  34. Which his army had been massacred. Catherine wrote, the next day:" I am so, wretched ,to live long enough to see so many people die before me, although I realize
  35. And provincial government. Benjamin Franklin, in 1772,after examining the, wretched ,hovels in Scotland surrounding the opulent mansions of the landowners, said
  36. Out,'Second syllable! '" *"She made her curtsy, and was departing when the, wretched ,young captain sprang up, looked at her, and sank back on the sofa with another
  37. Which mutiny against their human masters, and then gradually revert to a, wretched ,caricature of their original condition. The animals were presided over by a fat
  38. Anew. This is the truly tragic moment, when the hero becomes conscious of his, wretched ,condition. He does not have hope, but " there is no fate that cannot be
  39. Also enjoys bead work, costuming,and needlework. She claims, however,to be a ", wretched ,housekeeper, and by and large an indifferent cook" ( Waldemar Companion, p 64
  40. Art ". In his review for the Washington Post, Gary Arnold called the film" a, wretched ,excess ". Jay Scott, in his review for The Globe and Mail, called the film" a
  41. However, others,such as Thomas Abington Macaulay who described Johnson as" a, wretched ,etymologist," have criticized Johnson's dictionary. Johnson's dictionary was
  42. Rites of sacrifice," because it was the custom of the Gallic rustics in their, wretched ,folly to carry about through the fields the images of demons veiled with a
  43. One of the ornaments of his press),and 1546. The text of the Vulgate was in a, wretched ,condition, and his editions, especially that of 1546,containing a new
  44. To write down its livelihood, the span of life, its deeds, and whether it is, wretched ,or fortunate. " According to the Quran, Ruh (Soul) is a command from Allah (
  45. Crowds frontman Chris Robinson) appears from on high and shows them their, wretched ,future (" You suck! "),but they still persist in believing that someday they
  46. Of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our, wretched ,countrymen had been driven to the last resource -- cannibalism -- as a means of
  47. Priest James, who had been sent to him by the people of Carthage" to help the, wretched ,province of Africa. " Benedict VII visited the city of Oviedo with his nephew
  48. Thirst for adventure, power,and glory. The Jesuit Ranging enters, bemoans the, wretched ,state of the church, attempts to obtain Marina's promise that when she becomes
  49. Which Margaret's son (Reginald Pole) was implicated. Her executioner was" a, wretched ,and blundering youth" who" literally hacked her head and shoulders to pieces
  50. In the world. It allowed proprietors to suck the very life-blood of that, wretched ,race. " The" Gregory clause" of the Poor Law prohibited anyone who held at

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