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    wretchedly


    1. I sat wretchedly and wished only to die, but I obeyed like a meek and stupid child


    2. And turning, he hastened out of the oracle chamber; behind him Muriela squeaked wretchedly at his going


    3. His mother was beside his body, sobbing wretchedly, and his father stood behind her still holding the phone next to his ear as if he didn’t even know it was there


    4. Lucifer now sat wretchedly in his chair


    5. There was a silence before Trevain wretchedly said, “I know


    6. He shook his head wretchedly


    7. Wretchedly short-sighted, without her glasses she was helpless, and a prey to the oddest delusions


    8. Never did unhappy celebrity sit more wretchedly than the poor Professor


    9. He turned to Undina, shaking his head wretchedly


    10. After an hour of feeling wretchedly sorry for herself the phone rang

    11. Where whatever I touched turned out wretchedly


    12. wretchedly and I sat with her and caressed her until she calmed down


    13. The escort were so wretchedly clothed, that they twisted straw round their bare legs, and thatched their ragged shoulders to keep the wet off


    14. In theirs the listeners felt as much pity as wonder at her misfortunes; but as the curate was just about to offer her some consolation and advice Cardenio forestalled him, saying, "So then, senora, you are the fair Dorothea, the only daughter of the rich Clenardo?" Dorothea was astonished at hearing her father's name, and at the miserable appearance of him who mentioned it, for it has been already said how wretchedly clad Cardenio was; so she said to him:


    15. "How strange this is! You must think wretchedly indeed of Willoughby, if, after all that has openly passed between them, you can doubt the nature of the terms on which they are together


    16. When there, though looking most wretchedly, she ate more and was calmer than her sister had expected


    17. "We spent such a day, Edward, in Harley Street yesterday! So dull, so wretchedly dull!--But I have much to say to you on that head, which cannot be said now


    18. "Death couldn't come," said the demon wretchedly


    19. A man wise but unlucky! Braving the ice banks of the South Pole, the coral of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, only to perish wretchedly in a train wreck! If that energetic man was able to think about his life in its last seconds, imagine what his final thoughts must have been!"


    20. "Yes; but you have a wretchedly small garden

    21. How long, he wondered wretchedly, would he suffer for it in purgatory?


    22. In the stages of exhaustion, its back legs trailing behind its flattened rump as though paralyzed: a rabbit that stared, white-eyed, from one side to the other, seeing nothing, yet finding no respite from its fear, and then fell to licking wretchedly at one ripped and bloody ear that drooped across its face: a rabbit that suddenly cried and wailed as though entreating the Thousand to come from every quarter to rid it of a misery too terrible to be borne


    23. I have told you that she had only recently recovered from an illness, and was looking so wretchedly pale and wan that I remonstrated with her for being at work


    24. I was wretchedly damp and cold, but I tried to cheer myself with the reflection that modern science prescribed open windows and walks in all weather for my disease


    25. Dinner-time came, and the whirling ceased; whereupon Tess left her post, her knees trembling so wretchedly with the shaking of the machine that she could scarcely walk


    26. This afternoon the helplessness was more wretchedly benumbing than ever: she longed for objects who could be dear to her, and to whom she could be dear


    27. One strong proof of my wretchedly defective nature is, that even her expostulations, so mild, so rational, have not influence to cure me of my faults; and even her praise, though I value it most highly, cannot stimulate me to continued care and foresight


    28. In such a voice as might be expected from a hopeless heart and fainting frame—a voice wretchedly low and faltering—I asked if a servant was wanted here?


    29. Wretchedly did he feel, that with all the cost and care of an anxious and expensive education, he had brought up his daughters without their understanding their first duties, or his being acquainted with their character and temper


    30. Ross Browne are pretty correct in contour; but they are wretchedly engraved

    31. He was ill, wretchedly ill, but more morally than physically


    32. "Yes; trade indeed! The trading class in my country is wretchedly ill-off; just poverty-stricken


    33. They are such wretchedly small, vain, egotistical, commonplace people! Would you believe it, they invited me there under the express condition that I should die quickly, and they are all as wild as possible with me for not having died yet, and for being, on the contrary, a good deal better! Isn’t it a comedy? I don’t mind betting that you don’t believe me!”


    34. You see, Alexey Ivanovitch, I have only been visiting there a week” (he grew more and more confused), “and yesterday, when I met you, I thought to myself that I had never seen her yet in society; that is, in the society of other men besides myself—a stupid idea, I know it is—I was very anxious to try—you know my wretchedly jealous nature


    35. As he passed along the left side of the street, near the Admiralty building, he perceived, by the light of a bright fire burning behind the wall, the acacias planted along the sidewalk, with green guards beneath, and the wretchedly dusty leaves of these acacias


    36. One of the first things to catch my eye was a wooden haut-relief, wretchedly executed, representing a woman (naked) who with both hands is squeezing from her two breasts streams of blood


    37. He sat, wretchedly uncomfortable, trying to remember whether he had ever seen Lillian wear long lavender gloves, hearing Lillian deftly turn and dispose of, unanswered, Blanche Remi’s suggestions for horseback excursions and “plunge parties


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    "wretchedly" definitions

    in a wretched manner