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Miserable in sentence

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It was too much this time; the day was coming when the miserable, pushed to extremity, would deal justice.
The frozen moss crackled beneath the heels of the crowd, while the beeches, erect in their strength, with the delicate tracery of their black branches against the white sky, neither saw nor heard the miserable beings who writhed at their feet.
It annoyed him to feel her so near him, so miserable, shivering beneath her man's old jacket and her muddy trousers.
A quarter of an hour later, as the band of strikers, which had gradually enlarged, was becoming threatening, a large door opened on the ground floor and some men appeared drawing out the dead beast, a miserable mass of flesh still fastened in the rope net; they left it in the midst of the puddles of melting snow.
He awakened, miserable and detested; his people were dismissing him by flinging bricks.
And he reminded her of a miserable little hovel situated at Barneville, near Aumale, that brought in almost nothing.
ENNIUS'Answer me, without lying, if you can, you miserable bookworm; how do you come to know Madame de Renal?
You will have a place worth perhaps twenty thousand francs, but it must be that while you gorge to repletion you stop the poor prisoner from singing; you will give dinner parties with the money you have filched from his miserable pittance, and during your dinner he will be more wretched still!
Is she a prude, weary of her calling, and malicious because she is miserable?''Or rather,' said Altamira, emerging at last from his profound silence, 'can it be what I have said to you twenty times?
For a month past she had been miserable, but that proud spirit was far from confessing its feelings to itself.
'It would be if I expected to die in my bed that the sight of that poor old man ought to make me so utterly wretched; but a swift death in the springtide of life is the very thing to save me from that miserable decrepitude.'
He was losing that manly pride which repels with a forcible oath certain degrading ideas by which the miserable are assailed.
We were to learn in the days to come, when it was too late, that George was a miserable impostor, who could evidently have known nothing whatever about the matter.
This way, sur.""Go away, you miserable old man," I said.
They were looking at each other with as bewildered and helplessly miserable expression as I have ever witnessed on any human countenance before or since, and they held a long tow-line between them.
"Ah! would ye!" growled Montmorency, showing his teeth; "I'll teach ye to cheek a hard-working, respectable dog; ye miserable, long-nosed, dirty- looking scoundrel, ye.
We were wet to the skin, and cold and miserable.
"Take it; and you, miserable man, prepare for that fate which will surely befall you before the setting of to-morrow's sun.""Life offers but little to tempt me with," said Harvey, slowly raising his eyes, and gazing wildly at the strange faces in the apartment.
It is a woman, mild, gentle, and dependent as yourself, that my very nature loves; deceive not yourself with visionary ideas of generosity, which will only make me miserable."
The miserable horse of the sutler was soon distanced, and Betty, thus thrown out in the chase, turned to the side of the road, and observed,-"There - it's no difficult to tell that Captain Jack is wid 'em, anyway; and away they go like so many nagur boys to a husking-frolic; well, I'll jist hitch the mare to this bit of a fence, and walk down and see the sport afoot - it's no r'asonable to expose the baste to be hurted."
"Then go, miserable wretch," said the trooper, relinquishing his grasp.
It would render me miserable for life."
How long do you think that miserable Dutch horse you are on would hold his speed, if pursued by the Virginians?
The instant that Harvey put his horse to his speed Captain Wharton was at his heels, urging the miserable animal he rode to the utmost.
"But this miserable horse is blown already," cried Henry, urging his beast with the end of his bridle, at the same time that Harvey aided his efforts by applying the lash of a heavy riding whip he carried.
Did Sir Henry Clinton know that the peddler had communion with me, and under such circumstances, the life of the miserable man would be taken instantly; therefore, as you value human blood, or remember the rescue of your brother, be prudent, and be silent.
Will you aid to make the life of a wretch still more miserable?"
CHAPTER VIMONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable.
He left the presence too miserable to even feel revengeful toward Sid; and so the latter's prompt retreat through the back gate was unnecessary.
He began to find himself hanging around her father's house, nights, and feeling very miserable.
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