Sentence examples for miserable spectacle from inspiring English sources

On that August day his body was described by Thomas More as "a miserable spectacle", slung "like a hogge or a calfe, the head and armes hangyng on the one side of the horse and the legs on the other side".

The last time his body was carried across the narrow, stone Bow Bridge, it was stripped and slung over the back of a horse "like a hogge or a calfe, the head and armes hangyng on the one side of the horse and the legs on the other side", in the words of Thomas More, who pronounced it "a miserable spectacle".

If the state does so, a miserable spectacle of a trial will have led to one of the most outrageous executions of our time.

Oh, the miserable and calamitous spectacle!" Suspicion soon arose in the threatened city that the fire was no accident.

In the mountains, hills, streets, was a theater of the saddest spectacle, long caravans of miserable people walked in all directions asking, for God's love, a piece of bread.

She speaks sweetly but out of abstraction; her bones are as fragile as a bird's; her eyes look right through her spectacles, right through this hot and miserable world, at a wonder.

Allowing for Serbia's miserable resistance, much of Argentina's play was breathtaking and the joy of their fans added to the spectacle.

Or miserable.

Pretty miserable".

'Very miserable.

Absolutely miserable.