Sentence examples for miserable creature from inspiring English sources

You've ruined your sons, you miserable creature.

You'll never find anything new about the world and they will make you a miserable creature.

Later in the 19th century Carlyle mocked Keats, declaring him "a miserable creature, hungering after sweets he can't get... Keats wanted a world of treacle".

It was, as microbiologist Theodor Rosebury once wrote, "a miserable creature, seeming at nearly every point to require an artificial substitute for the germs [it] lacks".

They did things to endure for ages, they had led the world in many a grand career, and yet they bowed down to this miserable creature monopoly, compared with which the monkey of the Egyptians was indeed a god.

If you happen to be visiting Wellington airport over the next few months, don't be surprised to be greeted by Gollum, the miserable creature at the centre of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

They're miserable creatures filled with hate".

From Politico: "There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don't have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues," Dole wrote in a message sent yesterday morning.

Tribal loyalties When Charles Darwin encountered the tribal people of Terra del Fuego he called them "the most abject and miserable creatures I have anywhere beheld" and as existing "in a lower state of improvement than in any part of the world".

The class of people who worry about such things (Lady Constance Bridgelow is one of them, but you are far from ready to meet her yet) will tell you that in recent years these miserable creatures (by which she would mean the pigeons, but possibly also the foreigners) have only been encouraged by the official sanctioning of a stall selling paper cones of birdseed at a halfpenny each.

Love is a bond of obligation which these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes" (Machiavelli 1965, 62; translation altered).