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Wretched in sentence

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The druggist's wife crunched them up as they had done—heroically, despite her wretched teeth.
Madame de Renal realised her own imprudence: 'I am feverish,' she told her, 'and I think, a little light-headed; stay beside me.'Thoroughly awakened by the necessity of controlling herself, she felt less wretched; reason resumed the sway of which her state of drowsiness had deprived it.
To have to reckon with a wretched workman who puts on airs, that's what we've come to!''Since my husband, who does not know how deeply he has wounded Julien, thinks he is going to leave us, what am I to suppose?'Madame de Renal asked herself.
He wearied his brain in devising clever stratagems; a moment later, he felt them to be absurd; he was in short extremely wretched, when two struck from the clock tower.
What is to become of me apart from you, and with the knowledge that you are wretched by my fault!
'But that would be no good,' he broke out angrily, 'that wretched Elisa would notice it, and it would be all over the house at once that I am jealous.'
Julien, already in the worst of humours, suddenly reflected that on the other side of the dining-room wall there were wretched prisoners, whose rations of meat had perhaps been squeezed to purchase all this tasteless splendour with which his hosts sought to dazzle him.
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!
How pleasant it was in your time to climb to fortune through the dangers of a battle; but meanly to intensify the sufferings of the wretched!'
Never can vanity, at grips with all the nastiest and shabbiest elements of a petty love of money, have plunged a man in a more wretched state than that in which M. de Renal found himself, at the moment of his entering the tavern.
'It would be impossible for a woman to be more wretched ...I hope I am going to die ...I feel my heart freezing ...'Such were the longest answers he was able to extract from her.
The wretched conceit of the damned fellow!'
Here is a detailed account of one of his wretched days.
de La Mole has not sent so much as a wretched Cross to his agent at Besancon, and is going to allow him to be deprived of his post without a murmur.
I must speak to you, I am too wretched!' and he knocked until the window nearly broke.
At that time I was writing you day after day letters which I dared not send you; I concealed them carefully, and when I was too wretched used to shut myself up in my room and read over my own letters.
Julien spun out his story, and spoke of the wretched life he had led since leaving Verrieres.
But, in the carriage, the little strength that remained to her was still employed in making her melancholy and wretched.
What a wretched state of things!' he added bitterly.
'Julien is quite sincere with me,' she told herself; 'at his age, in an inferior state of fortune, wretched as an astounding ambition makes him, he needs a woman friend.
They are jealous of my wretched little superiority in language.
Whenever, for an instant, the strength of her will made her remorse silent, feelings of shyness and outraged modesty made her extremely wretched.
Julien was too wretched and above all, too greatly agitated, to interpret so complicated a stratagem of passion, still less could he discern all the promise that it held out to himself: he fell a victim to it; never perhaps had his misery been so intense.
'Can I possibly be more wretched?' he asked himself.
Didn't Kalisky make love on Richmond Terrace, you know, a few miles out of London, to the prettiest Quakeress in the whole of England?'Julien was less wretched when he parted from his friend at two o'clock in the morning.
As for Julien, he had now taken action, he was less wretched; his eyes happened to fall on the Russia-leather portfolio in which Prince Korasoff had placed the fifty-three love letters of which he had made him a present.
Those judges so steeped in formalities, so thirsty for the blood of the wretched prisoner, who would have the best of citizens hanged in order to hang a Cross from their own buttonholes ...I should remove myself from their power, from their insults in bad French, which the local newspaper will proceed to call eloquence.
'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.'
Whatever arguments he might thus advance, Julien found that he was moved like any pusillanimous creature and made wretched in consequence by this visit.
The settlement of the lawsuit had been signed some weeks earlier, and the abbe Pirard had left Besancon, not without having spoken of the mystery of Julien's birth, on the very day on which the wretched fellow tried to kill Madame de Renal in the church of Verrieres.
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