Whatever maybe the condition of woman, however sad her experience in life, however deplorable her lot, however low she may be sunk in degradation, it is hard to find one of her sex in whom sensibility is extinguished.
It seems to me a deplorable necessity," said Mr. Armstrong.
They were deplorable defects for one in his position.
A goldsmith of the neighborhood, moved at hisdeplorable condition, offered the use of his house; and Abbe Cavelier had him removed thither.
But above all, he came penetrated with the deplorable effects which had resulted from the mistake of Nikias, in wasting irreparably so much precious time, and frittering away the first terror-striking impression of his splendid armament.
Such a tax upon commerce greatly enhanced the value of all commodities, and this deplorable state of things lasted until the cities made their power felt by forming alliances for mutual protection.
The same war also did great damage to the public thoroughfares, and the commercial and manufacturing interests of the German empire were until the end of the eighteenth century in a deplorable condition.
The contest of the old industrial rivals has, in consequence of this influx of democratic ideas into the South, and the resultant modification of environment there, taken on fresh and deplorable complications.
It is one of the most deplorable things in the history of literature to see a man endowed with Diderot's generous conceptions and high social aims, forced to stoop to these odious economies.
Jehoram ben-Jehoshaphat of Judah was thirty-two years old when he began his independent reign, and reigned for eight deplorable years.
The mean cupidity of Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, gives a deplorable sequel to the story of the prophet's magnanimity.
It was "in the year that King Uzziah died" that Isaiah saw his first vision, and he gives us a deplorable picture of contemporary laxity.
Such, however, was the deplorable end of the king who had stood by the Temple pillar in his fair childhood, amid the shouts and trumpet-blasts of a rejoicing people.
Ahaziah, Ahab's eldest son, after a reign of one year, marked only by crimes and misfortunes, had ended in overwhelming disaster hisdeplorable career.
Although the historian of the Kings gives no hint of this dark story of Zechariah's murder, or of the apostasy of Joash, and indeed narrates no other event of the long reign of forty years, he tells us of the deplorable close.
Thanks to the deplorable prejudices of people with regard to us, every one's object is to keep us at a distance and to stand on the defensive.
Well, that is what I call an illegal action, most deplorable and blameworthy.
Had Stan written the "Life and Work of Miss Dorothy Lennard" he would probably have written the most deplorable record of our whole deplorable age.
The moment it came to India, she shared her aunt's deplorable narrow-mindedness and propensity to make a virtue of her intolerance.
Indeed there were those who considered that this journal made a deplorable exhibition of itself.
On the whole, his education was strictly religious, but it was tainted with the deplorable inconsistency so frequently found in Jewish homes.
The financial world was now in a state of deplorable despondency, but that condition of things could not last for ever.
The certainty that nothing exists (deplorable though it may be) is none the less a certainty.
Six years after he finds the education is still in a deplorable state (ibid.
For it is clearer than day that we feel within ourselves indelible characters of goodness; and it is equally true that we experience every hour the effects of our deplorable condition.
It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
Finally, I took my leave, conscious that I had been asinine in my remarks and had made a deplorable impression.
It behooved me to disturb the beautifully orderly and thoroughly deplorablepiling up of my books indulged in by Mrs. Milliken.
I entertain the lively hope and strong belief that the present deplorable situation is not due to the act or default of the Government of this great country.
I do not believe that Europe will make war to insure the continuance of massacres more terrible than ever recorded in the dismal, deplorable history of crime.
It was not the Duke of Newcastle nor the military system, but the policy of the whole Cabinet which he characterized as a "deplorable administration.
This has resulted, he thinks, from the employment of generals before it is known whether they will "stand fire" and has cost us thousands of good men and deplorable degradation of reputation.
They were in a deplorable condition and must have starved but for the support the government gave them.
Schools were unknown, and they had no minister till, in pity of their deplorable state, two went thither from Boston on a voluntary mission.
The prayer for the evening is so beautiful as to double our regret for the deplorable mutilation which has deprived us of all but the opening of the morning prayer.
Happily thedeplorable proposals of 1689 came to nothing.
It is hard also to shew that their incorporation, and constant acceptance, with the LXX was a deplorable mistake.
I never saw, and please God I may never see again, so deplorable a sight as the reconcentrados in the suburbs of Mantanzas.
The railways are insufficient and wretchedly managed, while the roads are in a deplorable condition, sometimes, in wet weather, being almost impassible.
Useless to waste any time there, as it appears that the countess has a deplorable taste.
He explained in some detail, with statistics, the waste and inefficiency and dishonesty in various departments under the present system, dwelling particularly upon the deplorable state of affairs in the city hospital.
That the condition of the sick and wounded was deplorableis proved by the testimony of many witnesses.
The prince's squadron was indeed shortly in a deplorable condition.
While the army was making this deplorable exhibition of itself, the ships were parading to and fro in front of San Domingo, engaging at odd moments in a languid artillery fire with the forts.
