Sentence examples for this poor wretch from inspiring English sources

In what conceivable way was this poor wretch a customer?

But then, we realize that if we do not help this poor wretch, it is going to turn out that, when we need help, no one will come to our aide.

Oh, how long and joyfully the poor wretch relished these gifts!

So the poor wretch was not a fairy after all, thought Adam.

Then he'll turn up leading a tribe of vindictive nativeslike that poor wretch who stirred up half of Algeria to revoltjust to end up roasted by fundamentalists on the Moroccanborder.

It was perfectly suited to this melodramatic self-portrait, on the back of which he wrote: "The corpse which you see here is that of M Bayard...The government, which has been only too generous to Monsieur Daguerre, has said it can do nothing for Monsieur Bayard, and the poor wretch has drowned himself.

She wrote this desperate letter to her mother: "He is 11 years old and very honest … I cannot bear the poor wretch being ill-used; if you like him … I will send him, he will be a cheap servant and you will make a Christian of him and a good boy; if you don't like him they say Lady Rockingham wants one".

If they quarrel and brawl — "I did strike her over her left eye such a blow as the poor wretch did cry out and was in great pain, but yet her spirit was such as to endeavour to bite and scratch me" — they usually make up before retiring, ready to chat in bed the next morning.

But the pity and beauty of Shakespeare's poetry can withstand even that Pre-Raphaelite passing-off: "Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up … but long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch … To muddy death".

Perhaps, and if so her veil and fanned-out dress fit perfectly with Queen Gertrude's description of Ophelia's demise in Hamlet: Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like a while they bore her up … But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death.

The abbé schools Edmond in everything from philosophy to fighting, and eventually the poor wretch escapes, only to fall in with a gang of pirates, one of whom, Jacopo (Luis Guzman), becomes his loyal second -- Sancho to his Quixote, Hutch to his Starsky.