wretchedness
- a word derived from wretched.
Example Sentences
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Th' appeals of Wretchedness had weight with him, And Sympathy would warm him every limb; The Child becomes one of the Family.
From Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs by Bloomfield, Robert
Nothing remains but Wretchedness and Woe; Monelia's gone; Monelia is no more.
From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas
Next was considered "Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Ignorance."
From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
Wretchedness, rags and despair salute me on every side; and if this be the best part of Ireland, what must the state of the worst be?
From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Greeley, Horace
Wretchedness of the most pathetic kind met the gaze on every side.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
