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Wretch in sentence

136 examples of Wretch in a sentence

Claude Rains is his usual steady self as the traitorous wretch who realizes his chance to seize power with the pauper in charge.
I saw this one on TV on a weekend, when I was cleaning house and had the tube on, and it started, and I watched a few minutes of it, and I thought, OK, I want to see what happens to this wretch of a girl.
The livid wretch, clinging with imbecile obstinacy to his fixed idea, continued to stammer his need of cleaning himself.
Blinded by this red flood, and dazed by the shock to his skull, the wretch was beating the air with his arms at random, when another blow, striking him at last full in the chest, finished him.
Then, while she hid her eyes, he dragged away the wretch, and threw him down the upbrow, to remove him from the narrow space in which they still had to live.
Ah! you never knew that there, so near you, so far from you, was a poor wretch!"
Then he came straight to his pupil, and, planting himself in front of him with crossed arms—"Have you every vice, then, little wretch?
Anyone'd think you wanted to seduce me!""You are a wretch!" she cried.
"What a wretch!
And Emma began to laugh, an atrocious, frantic, despairing laugh, thinking she saw the hideous face of the poor wretch that stood out against the eternal night like a menace.
At times he thought he felt nothing more, and he enjoyed this lull in his pain, whilst at the same time he reproached himself for being a wretch.
'Poor wretch!' he added with a sigh, 'his name has the same ending as mine.'
'Ungrateful wretch, will not your heart find out some way of telling me that you love me, before starting on this walk?
'I intend to take it to the Casino, to show them all that it comes from that wretch Valenod, whom I picked up out of the gutter and made into one of the richest citizens of Verrieres.
If he hears the least sound I am lost, he will drive me from the house like the wretch that I am.''Ah!
...Remember what I told you, last winter, of the early years of that wretch, Cardinal Dubois.
'Ah, little wretch, I shall make you eat those words.
To ask for advice, to relate his agony to the first comer would have been a happiness comparable to that of the wretch who, crossing a burning desert, receives from the sky a drop of ice-cold water.
More than once the idea of suicide occurred to him; this image was full of charm, it was like a delicious rest; it was the glass of ice-cold water offered to the wretch who, in the desert, is dying of thirst and heat.
'It was reserved for me, wretch that I am, to see the most indelicate advances repulsed!
'That wretch's eyes are ablaze,' he said to himself; 'what a triumph for that vile nature!
'That wretch Frilair has betrayed me,' she said to him, wringing her hands; rage prevented her from speaking.
Harvey will be nothing but an utterly despisable, poverty-stricken wretch.
Occasionally there was some whispering between this man and the Skinner nearest him, that induced Harvey to suspect he had been the dupe of a contrivance in which that wretch had participated.
"Go - go, poor wretch, and make your peace with God; for it is He only that can be of service to you now."
"Am I a wretch, that you treat me so cruelly?
"Poor, ignorant wretch!" exclaimed the veteran, recovering his voice with a long-drawn breath; "think you that figure was made of flesh and blood?""Harvey ain't fleshy," replied the black, "but he berry clebber man."
"One who remains in a single state may devote his life to science and the extension of knowledge, if not of his species; but the wretch who profits by the constitutional tendency of the female sex to credulity and tenderness, incurs the wickedness of a positive sin, heightened by the baseness of deception."
In what better way can I serve her than in exterminating a wretch who would have blasted one of her fairest daughters?"
If not, poor wretch, I pity you, although you may be in heaven."
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