Sentence examples for is a wretch from inspiring English sources

Slumped below her is a wretch even closer to death: a skeletal soldier holding a cask, with a ballad—"The Downfall of Madam Gin"—peeking out of his basket.Behind this dismal pair are two orphan girls, wearing St Giles badges to show that they are nominally in the care of the parish, drinking by the gin barrels.

'This is certainly treason,' the outraged Napoleon wrote, 'Villeneuve is a wretch who should be ignominiously dismissed...

She is a wretch, abominable almost beyond conception, so as to be odious, if known, to the most odious.

Among the many unacceptable things Mocenigo claimed to have heard Bruno say, listed in a letter to the Inquisition in May 1592, were that Christ was a wretch and a magician, that the world is eternal but divine punishment is not, that bread does not turn into flesh in the Eucharist, that the Virgin cannot have given birth and that all friars are asses.

She's a wretch of a human being, as mired in despair as Betty was flying on the wings of hope.

I am a wretch, I want to understand this "amazing grace".

Any Member of Congress who votes against the bill is a moral wretch who should be ousted from office.

Hitchings skips through the Chesterfield connection (a patron is "commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery"), and tells us as much as we need to know about contemporary reviews, sales, and revisions.

A pregnant woman resting under a tree turns out to be a "poor wretch swollen with putrefaction, his eyes and tongue pecked out by buzzards".

A pregnant woman resting under a tree turns out to be a "poor wretch swollen with putrefaction, his eyes and tongue pecked out by buzzards".

To be sure, Gaddafi was a tyrannical wretch, but he was not the responsibility of the United States.