Sentence examples for wretched boy from inspiring English sources

The opera singer Dame Nellie Melba complained, "That wretched boy has achieved overnight what has taken me years".

(Basil tells Dorian, "There was that wretched boy in the Guards who committed suicide. You were his great friend. There was Sir Henry Ashton, who had to leave England, with a tarnished name. You and he were inseparable").

The sergeant said: "There's one sitting right next to me," and the wretched boy went white and scrambled off the bench and hurried through the silence to the tent.

Of course the silly old cunt tried to make a man of the wretched boy by laying about him with a horsewhip, but the child was father to the man and he stepped up his pain threshold with a true masochist's relish, rather than relinquish or repress any part of his nature.

I thought, however, that the vast wordage each account dedicated to the mishap of a wretched little boy who almost fell over Elizabeth's train during the ceremony was a tipoff on how desperate most of the reporters must have been.

And boys, wretched weasels that they are, will be anything as long as they can have a sword.

His songs became playful narrative fantasies populated by improbable characters like the "chimbley sweep," whose song of despair ("I am a poor and a wretched boy/ A chimbley, chimbley sweep") Mr. Meloy cannot sing without a grin.

The trial was a swift one, and moved briefly over the wretched life of the boy who was the child of an Austrian kitchenmaid, and an idling policeman, hurried over the five minutes in Black Shirt Lane wherein Frederick Hirsh was killed.

"That's My Boy" is a pretty wretched movie if you want to activate your brain cells, but its busily plotted second half approaches involving.

That theory imploded along with the stock market bubble, and nowadays discredited CEOs such as Kozlowski and Ebbers routinely serve as poster boys for the era of wretched excess.

Back on social media, the search quickly becomes a sort of boy-meets-girl version of that wretched dress everyone saw as different colours.