Sentence examples for wretched child from inspiring English sources
That Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch and Tea Are all the Human Frame requires... " With that the Wretched Child expires.
Born of the tribes and the outcasts, a wretched child destined for menial tasks and a lifetime of poverty, Gaddafi – thanks, in large part, to his humble roots – immediately won the adoration of the disadvantaged on the fringes of society and rallied the aggrieved and the rejected to his cause.
The banana-clipped Kalashnikov is by now a familiar sight to anyone who watches a few minutes of television news footage; it's the weapon clasped to the chests of Kim Jong Il's goose-stepping legions, waved high by Somali pirates, clutched by Africa's wretched child soldiers, leaning up against a mud-washed wall in Osama bin Laden's infamous videos.
"Alas, the wretched children ! they are seekin Death in life, as best to have !
They are what he has called "the School of Resentment... wretched children.
Once, early in her novitiate, the nun had been sent to a squalid apartment filled with wretched children, where a skeletal woman, made old, discolored, barely human, by pain, was in the last throes of her disease.
The wretched children born and raised on a rural hippie commune who flail through Adam Sherman's new film, "Happiness Runs," may not be as depraved as the members of the Manson family.
Now there are half a dozen much bigger establishments, including one run by the army for orphans of its dead retainers.In this section ASEAN and the temple of doom A tarnished triumph Five-ring circus The cockerel's cropped crest Red mist Spoiled by war Greens and the black stuff Guerrilla politics ReprintsThe orphanages mean wretched children, but also a depressing cultural change.
Life had been wretched as a child and young person.
That the books make both children wretched is itself ironic, given the gentle nature of their father, who never imagined that his work would receive more than modest attention.
It also documents, with a child's wretched matter-of-factness, the hatred that fatness provokes in others.
