We may easily imagine to ourselves the horror with which these miserable people must be seized, on being obliged to leave their homes, and everything dear to them.
When I visited the pirate in the Moorish castle where he was confined, he was sitting in his cold, narrow, and miserable cell, upon a pallet of straw, eating his coarse meal from a tin plate.
Mr. Stewart said that he saw them himself, and such miserable objects, that had life, he never before beheld.
At length, in the end of December 1821, discovering the miserable state to which he was reduced, he entreated the Intendant of Conception, that he might be received on giving himself up along with his partisans.
He finally left the unhappy province of Conception, the theatre of so many miserable scenes, overwhelmed with the misery which he had caused, without ever recollecting that it was in that province that he had first drawn his breath.
See the numbers of miserable starving children in the great cities and centres of population.
All this miserable feeling, however, disappeared the moment I rose to my feet and looked at the faces before me.
He desires to prevent that miserable Gorka from calling forth a scandal which would have warned his sister.
At least, now she knows nothing, and if some miserable person were to do as you say she would know in part without being sure.
It consists of two long narrow streets, and of three ranges of miserable old houses, offering wretched uncomfortable holes for the inhabitants, the wretchedness being probably to some extent redeemed by the natural purity of the air.
Poor and miserable as the place looks, it has, like all such villages, a grand church—that is, grand in comparison with the dwellings and with the apparent poverty of the people.
AS ALSO, An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable apostates and bloody persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution.
Put rather an end to a miserable life immediately.
He became as miserable as when first convicted of sin.
The miserableseared days of these women were echoed in their sleep.
When she took charge of Hythe, the corps fought its battles in a miserable little barn known as 'The Tar-Tub,' located in a back lane.
He thought the miserable man some love-lorn swain, for he saw the name of Belphoebe cut on many of the trees, and remarked how he brightened at the sound of the name and even kissed the ground where it was written.
When his mother saw his miserable state, she was greatly troubled, and knew not what to think, for she could not discover the source of his malady.
Then she sat by her in the half-dark, waiting for the miserable tears to leave off.
That will make her moremiserable than she has ever been before.
However miserable I may sometimes be, I could never wish to give up a moment of my life with you, my own husband, or to leave you and our child to the influence of this--this being.
Geoffrey made a deep bow, extending the palms of his hands toward her and downward in reverent Oriental pantomime, as one who should say: "Your slave is humbly glad to please, and dusts your path with his miserable body.
The result of this frequent yielding to inclination was that she was miserable enough when away from him and not particularly contented when with him.
Those fellows have never got over here so soon on their miserable cayuses--take it from me," Dig urged.
There were not many Indians about Silver Run; and those who were there were, as a rule, miserable creatures.
Much as I want to overtake those miserable thieves, we must not overlook the fact that we have to eat to live.
And to think how I mourned and made myself utterlymiserable because I couldn't go abroad with Aunt Stina!
You even handled those soiled things in that miserable cart.
Young Lonner is not the most miserable of men, by my faith; but I know one who at some future time will look much prettier in that position!
The penurious estimate which has resulted in this miserable deficiency has been long and ably combated by patriotic and clear-headed citizens, but their influence has as yet proved wholly unavailing.
Now for a telescope to see the barren, dingy hills, with clay and granite peeping out, with a few miserable trees and stunted firs.
How, then, is the miserablenonsense to be disposed of?
The cowardice of conscience is one of the saddest penalties of sin; and to avert suspicion from one's self by severity to others is, indeed, the most miserable expediency of self-condemnation.
To see the isolated and miserable domiciles you occupy and the hard fare on which you subsist?
Next morning they found a number of spears and other weapons which the blacks had left on the ground; these they threw into the fire, and then resumed their miserable journey.
The white woman's heart was moved with pity at the sight of the miserable little bairn.
They made short straggling flights, alighting on the ground in front of the miserable man, inspecting his condition, and calculating how soon he would be ready to be eaten.
Sorrow's the day I ever met you at all, with the miserable life you led me; and you know I was always the good wife to you until you gave yourself entirely to the devil with your wicked ways.
Wheer are me and the childer to go in this miserable lookin' place?
Moreover, they are always in deadly earnest; there is anothermiserable world awaiting their arrival.
Pup's early days were made very miserable by Maggie, the magpie.
In Australia wild rabbits are vermin, in England they are private property; and if one of the three millions of hermiserable paupers is found with a rabbit in each of his coat pockets, he is fined 10s.
I am a mason, and I threw up twenty-eight bob a day to come to this miserable hole.
Wanted everything to look as poor and miserable as possible.
We were both in miserable spirits, and very doubtful about keeping our engagements to the Olliffs.
They have made no natural glades; it is merely a lawn with a few miserable young trees, standing as if they were half-starved.
It was a miserable place, very like a French house; indeed we observed, in almost every part of Scotland, except Edinburgh, that we were reminded ten times of France and Germany for once of England.
I was affected with them, and inmiserable spirits.
Some of them do a thriving trade, others barely eke out a miserable existence.
It was covered with a coarse undergrowth, which simply disfigured it, and was occupied by the miserable shanties of a number of Irish families, known as "squatters.
She dares not return to her miserable boarding-place in Delancey street, for her Irish landlady is clamorous for the two weeks' board now due.
She died alone, in her miserable home, with no one to minister to her last wants.
The course of life which they pursue leads to miserable results.
Consider, Prince, what an example we give to all the world when, for a miserable piece of Poland or of Moldavia and Wallachia, we throw to the dogs our honor and reputation!
Hufeland reports in his diary: "The queen spent the first night in a miserable room with a broken window, and we found the melting snow was dropping on her bed.
Helche is especially motherly toward the numerous noblewomen who stay at the Hunnish court as hostages; she is a friend of the conquered and the helper of the miserable and the exiled.
The miserable woman in her agony replies only by exclamations of pain, and confesses: "After I had fallen a victim to sin, I did not dare approach you.
Gerlinde, in miserable fear of death, seeks at last a refuge with Gudrun.
From the lowest strata of society to the highest women were made miserable by this evil of intemperance.
You will understand that I can never be perfectly miserable while this source of purest joy is open to me.
Their houses are miserable hovels of dirt and wood, placed directly on the ground, and thatched with straw.
Dusk was falling on the mournful streets, and the lamp-lighters were lighting the miserable oil lamps that had replaced gas.
Forgetting, in her tribulation, that she was without her bodice, she got up from the floor in a kind of miserable dream, and opened.
She did not, in her mind, actively object, because she felt that she could not be more hopelessly miserable than she was; but she passively resented the imposition.
We were packed in a waggon which seemed likely to fill with water before we got to our destination; and miserable enough we looked, drenched and cold.
But in spite of all these openings some of our scholars are driven to eke out a miserable pauper's existence in the common lodging-house, or even in extreme cases to solicit parish relief.
The enormous demand for this class of literature is the most pregnant evidence of the miserable effects of misapplied education and defective instruction that could well be brought forward.
The poor priest, too, without having another miserable life, was born a king in his next life, and lived in prosperity.
The thought that after having been born of such a holy sage, she had adopted so wretched a life, the most shameful in the world, made hermiserable at heart.
A miserablehut was all his wealth in that village.
There can be no question that these predictions and preparations led to a real rebellion, because they fitted in with the miserable condition of Calabria.
