Sentence examples for a miserable condition from inspiring English sources

Finally, says Polybius, Hannibal "succeeded in getting his elephants across, but the animals were in a miserable condition from hunger".

One of the artificers, the quickest and the handiest workman among them all, with a slip of his foot fell down from a great height, and lay in a miserable condition, the physicians having no hope of his recovery.

Hundreds of Armenian women and men along with their children in a miserable condition were being driven along on foot, under the blows of whips and guns… whipping them along like flocks of sheep".

In a video for Oxfam a few weeks ago a woman who had lost her home to the floods stated it simply: "We are under the sky in this cold and our children are in a miserable condition".

After being eroded of Patgram and Andharmanik Bazar, the large traders currently become poor and survive in a miserable condition.

We have no right to hand over a planet Earth that has less worth or in a more miserable condition than the planet we ourselves have had the good fortune to live on.

"Even in a very miserable condition you can be very happy if you are grateful for small mercies," said Siddiqur Osmani, a professor of applied economics from the University of Ulster in Ireland.

4. WRAP-UP/HOMEWORK: Students respond to the following prompt (written on the board for easier access): "In the article, Siddiqur Osmani states, 'Even in a very miserable condition you can be very happy if you are grateful for small mercies.' Reflect on this question in relation to the article, their personal experience, and today's class work.

In the Iliad, Patroclus, who dies as a substitute for his king and dearest friend, Achilles, and then gives Achilles a description of the miserable condition of man after his death, bears striking similarities to the friend of Gilgamesh, Enkidu.

Squires was called an "old Gypsy Woman", who "robbed the girl of her stays; and then in a miserable naked Condition, because she would not become a common Prostitute, confined her in an old Back Room or loft".

She said Alan had abandoned her and their two small children, leaving her with enormous legal fees that would keep them in a miserable financial condition for years and years to come.