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Wretch in sentence

136 examples of Wretch in a sentence

Ugh! how I hate the wretch!'
Eh, Mary!''Get along with you, you wretch,' said the hand-maiden, obviously not ill-pleased with the compliment, however.
'Oh, the wretch!''Ladies,' roared Mr. Pickwick, rendered desperate by the danger of his situation.
'No, my dear, he hasn't,' replied Mr. Weller, lighting the pipe by the ingenious process of holding to the bowl thereof, between the tongs, a red-hot coal from the adjacent fire; and what's more, my dear, I shall manage to surwive it, if he don't come back at all.''Ugh, you wretch!' said Mrs. Weller.
He ought to be ashamed of himself (here Mrs. Raddle sobbed) to allow his wife to be treated in this way by a parcel of young cutters and carvers of live people's bodies, that disgraces the lodgings (another sob), and leaving her exposed to all manner of abuse; a base, faint- hearted, timorous wretch, that's afraid to come upstairs, and face the ruffinly creatures--that's afraid--that's afraid to come!'Mrs. Raddle paused to listen whether the repetition of the taunt had roused her better half; and finding that it had not been successful, proceeded to descend the stairs with sobs innumerable; when there came a loud double knock at the street door; whereupon she burst into an hysterical fit of weeping, accompanied with dismal moans, which was prolonged until the knock had been repeated six times, when, in an uncontrollable burst of mental agony, she threw down all the umbrellas, and disappeared into the back parlour, closing the door after her with an awful crash.
'Get along with you, old wretch!' replied Mrs. Raddle, hastily withdrawing the nightcap.
Poor wretch!
'What a prowokin' little wretch it is!
"That wretch would have married me by violence in another hour."
'A reptile contemporary has recently sweltered forth his black venom in the vain and hopeless attempt of sullying the fair name of our distinguished and excellent representative, the Honourable Mr. Slumkey--that Slumkey whom we, long before he gained his present noble and exalted position, predicted would one day be, as he now is, at once his country's brightest honour, and her proudest boast: alike her bold defender and her honest pride-- our reptile contemporary, we say, has made himself merry, at the expense of a superbly embossed plated coal-scuttle, which has been presented to that glorious man by his enraptured constituents, and towards the purchase of which, the nameless wretch insinuates, the Honourable Mr. Slumkey himself contributed, through a confidential friend of his butler's, more than three-fourths of the whole sum subscribed.
In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there.
By the way, Planchet, I think you are right with respect to our host, and that he is decidedly a frightfully low wretch."
"Be off, you wretch!" cried Aramis, throwing his skullcap in his face.
"Ah, monseigneur, how dearly have I paid for that fault, unhappy wretch as I am!""That gentleman, I say, what has become of him?"
"Well, I will avenge you of this wretch," replied d’Artagnan, giving himself the airs of Don Japhet of Armenia.
"Ah, wretch!" cried she, "you have basely betrayed me, and still more, you have my secret!
My mother gave it to me, and I, fool as I was, instead of keeping the ring as a holy relic, gave it to this wretch."
The conflict was not long; the wretch had nothing to defend himself with but his discharged arquebus.
So no more delay, no more hesitation; or else whatever may be my repugnance to soiling my sword a second time with the blood of a wretch like you, I swear by my faith as an honest man--" and at these words d’Artagnan made so fierce a gesture that the wounded man sprang up.
It was a frightful thing to see this wretch, leaving a long track of blood on the ground he passed over, pale with approaching death, trying to drag himself along without being seen to the body of his accomplice, which lay twenty paces from him.
"I, wretch?
Besides, of what importance to you is the life or death of a condemned wretch?
"I felt instinctively that someone approached me; it is said that the doomed wretch in the deserts of America thus feels the approach of the serpent.
"’Come,’ said the wretch, ’is not peace much better than such a war as that?
"Oh, grace, grace, pardon!" cried the wretch, falling on her knees.
"Come, Axel, come, you miserable wretch," my uncle cried from as far off as he could see me.
Just as the poor little wretch was going to take to his heels, Hans caught hold of him, and brought him to us, kicking and struggling.
The question now is, what shall we do with this poor wretch's body?
"How was that?""This poor wretch was dressed in your clothes.
Then, as he turned to leave the room, the captain seized him by the wrist, imploring him, by the memory of their mother, to have mercy upon him; and I loved my master as I saw him drag his sleeve from the grasp of the clutching fingers, and leave the stricken wretch grovelling upon the floor.
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