Sentence examples for miserable wretch from inspiring English sources

Men and womenfolk of the village, I stand before you a miserable wretch.

"I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing".

By Mike Gillis July 28, 2015 Men and womenfolk of the village, I stand before you a miserable wretch.

"The Kennedys" treats JFK like a miserable wretch completely at the mercy of his father's wishes and crippled by back pain.

R. Gilbert: Light that guided the Magi perhaps and many a miserable wretch, vision in which art's redefined instantly (LOADSTAR/STRAIGHT; LOADSRATIGHT; loads rat; anag. in sight).

Immediately spurned by his horrified maker, the creature must teach himself how to survive: "I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept".

Others told him they had on 29 January seen "a miserable poor wretch" travelling toward London.

Oglethorpe had another idea: what about just shipping the miserable wretches across the ocean?

Writing some 300 years after Cortés, Charles Darwin described the Yahgan canoe Indians of Tierra del Fuego as "the most miserable wretches on the face of the earth", living on the very lowest rung of human existence.

Gordon Brown – present by his absence – used to tell us that we were living in a new Elysium, and compared this happy breed with the miserable wretches who inhabited Germany, Japan and the US.

Let the "brave" jihadi soldiers lining up to replace the miserable wretches turned to dust by the French military watch as arms are joined around Wembley Stadium,  two nations speaking in a different tongue coming together to show what kind of life is possible when freedom and tolerance lie at the heart of the piece.