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Misery in sentence

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Grass was invading the pit-bank, flowers were covering the meadows, a whole life was germinating and pushing up from this earth beneath which he was groaning in misery and fatigue.
It was impatience before the promised age of gold, a haste to get a share of the happiness beyond this horizon of misery, closed in like the grave.
And in this cry there was the remembrance of her own hard youth, of the hereditary misery which made of each little one in the brood a bread-winner later on.
All the same their misery was aggravated, for the father had received such a shock that he was seriously ill with fever.
To complete their misery it was freezing very hard, and the women watched their piles of coal diminish, thinking anxiously that they could no longer renew them at the pits now that the men were not going down.
Hunger exalted their heads; never had the low horizon opened a larger beyond to these people in the hallucination of their misery.
He felt the fury of battle again, the fierce desire to have done with misery, even at the price of death.
I have worked down below for twenty years, I've sweated down there with fatigue and misery, and I've sworn to make it easier for the poor beggars who are there still; and I know well enough you'll never get anything with all your ideas, you'll only make the men's fate more miserable still.
Certainly honour prevented them from yielding to the Company's demands; but how much misery!
The misery had grown still greater, and the settlements were in agony from hour to hour beneath the increasing famine.
This excess of misery made them still more obstinate, mute as tracked beasts, resolved to die at the bottom of their hole rather than come out.
Good God! was it possible that they were reduced to such misery?
What she saw was far from encouraging; the house spoke of misery even more than her own.
Even the youngsters were already amusing themselves in their misery!
The mine belongs to you, to all of you who, for a century, have paid for it with so much blood and misery!"
With one arm he supported old Bonnemort, exhibiting him as a banner of misery and mourning, and crying for vengeance.
And she planted herself before her man to defend him, forgetting the blows, forgetting the life of misery, lifted up by the idea that she belonged to him since he had taken her, and that it was a shame for her when they so crushed him.
He seemed drunk from hunger, stupefied by his long misery, suddenly arousing himself from the resignation of half a century, under the influence of no one knew what malicious impulse.
Haven't we got enough to do with our misery?
Hadn't we enough misery, that He had to make her ill too, just when I can't even give her a cup of warm gruel."
It was an immense sadness, the misery of generations, the extremity of grief into which life can fall.
I looked at his intelligent head, furrowed with premature wrinkles that misfortune, perhaps misery, had etched long before.
Would this misery last for ever?
Was it not for him, the obstacle to all felicity, the cause of all misery, and, as it were, the sharp clasp of that complex strap that bucked her in on all sides.
I would not bring misery into your life."
Emma expatiated much on the misery of earthly affections, and the eternal isolation in which the heart remains entombed.
To increase his misery, he saw and exaggerated his own absurdity; but what he did not see was the expression in his eyes, they were so fine and revealed so burning a soul that, like good actors, they imparted at times a charming meaning to what was meaningless.
To complete her misery she felt that she was on the point of fainting, but the necessity of doing Julien a service restored her strength.
Throughout the hours of Julien's absence, she had been a prey to the most abject misery, which had made her think.
That evening she had tasted an unknown happiness; now she suddenly found herself plunged in appalling misery.
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