Sentence examples for a wretched man from inspiring English sources

Oxford was also a wretched man who abused his wife and drove his father-in-law to distraction.

For this was the beginning of our burning time, and "It is better," said St. Paul — who elsewhere, with a most unusual and stunning exactness, described himself as a "wretched man" — "to marry than to burn".

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Romans 7 22-24).

Catherine's immediate reaction is not known; but on Christmas Day, she told a friar, "Oh, wretched man!

Within an hour he had a line to the wretched man's employer, his bank manager, his landlord, and his wife's father.

Åsne Seierstad has written an exhaustive account of this wretched man's murder in 2011 of 69 boys and girls in a summer camp for young socialists, and eight adults after a bomb attack in Oslo.

"I know the bank has problems, but I can't imagine them letting down a wretched old man".

The wretched man blocked, stammered, dodged and weaved.

At first, the wretched man tries to extricate himself with supplications.

But at least we knew what the wretched man was about.

Iran's President, Ali Khamenei, had hinted that if he apologized "this wretched man might yet be spared".