Sentence examples for pitiable wretch from inspiring English sources
With any given victim, Tammaro slowly shifted from an omnicompetent dazzler to a pitiable wretch buffaloed by circumstance.
When ordinary political campaigns consist, as they recently have, of candidates calling one another liars, it is hard to make the case to the next generation that honesty is the prime virtue in public life and that a few pitiable wretches are too weak to observe its strictures.
Martin Battestin believes that this passage is indicative of the fact that while Fielding was opposed to prostitution, "when actually confronted with the pitiable wretches accused of such crimes and misdemeanors ... he acted toward them with the compassion and good-humored tolerance that characterize the treatment of the 'lower orders' in his novels".
And Italians call a hapless wretch a "poor Christ".
Nowhere he lives, poor wretch! and everywhere.
Chatham brightened up noticeably, although one poor wretch was troubled.
In what conceivable way was this poor wretch a customer?
This she affirms; and this, poor wretch, she suffer'd.
"Poor wretches who have never tasted love / away!
