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to wretchedness

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An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.

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In "Resolution and Independence", that great despondent William Wordsworth describes the descent from exuberance to wretchedness as a law of the physical universe.

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To add to my wretchedness, the inevitable baby was coming..

"Sometimes Russians are too used to living in wretchedness to be able to enjoy something of quality," he said.

Leaving the prime minister's residence on Sunday, Niki reported, Giorgos Karatzaferis, leader of the Popular Orthodox Rally, said he "will not contribute to the explosion of a revolution due to a wretchedness that will then spread across Europe".

The couple's partnership leads not to a final-scene clinch presaging a happy ever-after, but to relentless wretchedness culminating in disaster.

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He It a graduate of Yale Law School.

The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims "were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same".

There will be flowers planted up its inside face, so it looks nice from the road, so you can zoom along in a tunnelled floral paradise, entirely impervious to the wretchedness outside.

I wonder if there is a place to rent some wretchedness just to fill out the family lore?

"We cannot," he wrote, "prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon ourselves whether the principle of equality will lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness".

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