But it is impossible even to touch here upon the unthinkable miseries which are inevitably suffered by thousands of innocent men, women, and children whenever that Barbarism of Civilization, War, marches through a land.
Readers of newspapers cannot be ignorant of the miseries endured by wives from brutal husbands.
Then Mrs. Potten stared closely with her short-sighted eyes into her friend's face and saw such resigned miseries there that Mrs. Potten felt a stirring movement of those superficial emotions of which we have already spoken.
She had the sensation of standing for the first time face to face with one of the sternermiseries of life.
Yes, she could face miseries better in London, after all.
The Commissary interrupted her somewhat sharply in her catalogue of the miseries of France, by saying, "I will beg you to give me your keys, madame, for we must have a visitation of your papers.
It is thus our friends often console us; some of them, from a dark and gloomy turn of mind, and some of them from the satisfaction many people feel in meddling with the miseries of others.
The sages who instructed them told them of nothing but the miseries of public life, and described all beyond the mountains as regions of calamity, where discord was always raging, and where man preyed upon man.
Sir," said he, "if you had seen the miseries of the world, you would know how to value your present state.
Should like to have tried a day's fasting, as I have been so strongly recommended by the people, but I expect to have enough of fasting in The Desert, and it is of no use adding to our miseries for the sake of curiosity or vanity.
The domestic and political history of Africa is an eternal cycle of miseries and misfortunes; better that the African world had not been created.
If only great things could satisfy the mind of man, how prodigiously our miseries would be increased, for how few are the things deserving to be called great!
Upon no account wish for war in Algeria, for the miseries of the war would chiefly fall upon you, Mussulmans.
At the time I added, "I am not such a fool as to increase the miseriesof this life by fasting when I can get anything to eat.
And really, if it be the case, there is in this some compensation for the wrongs and miseries which the Turks are inflicting upon an impoverished and over burthened people.
They little think, that for such trifles, what miseries they inflict upon their helpless brethren!
Let me see; we've a lot of the potted meats and fancy biscuits and other things that I ordered from the city a week or two ago, to abate the miseries of summer housekeeping.
They shouted, they leaped, the merriest began to tell stories; the time of their miseries was past.
Their many miseries had confused their understandings.
I sat down close by my table, and, leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myself the miseriesof confinement.
All this, Fritz, was but the beginning of the blockade; you are going to hear now of the miseries we endured for three months.
If we were to speak of all the miseries of war, and all their consequences in after years, there would be no end!
I grasp every creature in the arms of universal benevolence, and equally participate in the pleasures of the happy, and sympathise with the miseries of the unfortunate.
Even the unhappy partner of our kind who is undone, the bitter consequence of his follies or his crimes--who but sympathises with the miseries of this ruined profligate brother?
I am groaning under the miseries of a diseased nervous system; a system, the state of which is most conducive to our happiness--or the most productive of our misery.
My own experience had never travelled in that course which could much instruct me in the miseries from wine, or in the resources for struggling with it.
Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of wishing evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a stronger manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his own calamities in particular.
Job Chapter 18 Baldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked.
England, as well as France, has furnished its examples; and the annals of genius in all countries are replete with the miseries of eccentricity.
The soil is very poor, and the greater part of the provisions and clothing must be carried from Manila; and consequently a thousand miseries are suffered during the year without recourse.
The perilous task reserved for Ali was to go to Shawan and to liberate the followers of Absalam, who, less happy than their leader, whose strong soul was at rest, were still in prison without abatement of the miseries they lay under.
Afflictions induce callosities; miseries are slippery, or fall like snow upon us, which notwithstanding is no unhappy stupidity.
His sway procured a little respite for Scotland in the ordinary miseries of her career.
And everything in Scotland was now tending to the miseries of a divided council and a nation rent asunder by internal differences.
In the civil troubles which succeeded the return of Pompey, he was banished from the country he had saved, and there is nothing more pitiful than his lamentations and miseries while in exile.
M892) Their renewed miseriescan be traced to Masinissa, who was in close alliance with the Romans.
Potidæa surrendered to the Athenian generals, upon favorable terms, after enduring all the miseries of famine.
A cruel slaughter of the citizens added to the miseries of a sack.
The sufferings and miseries of the people were intense, and the calamity by many was regarded as resulting from the anger of the gods.
Was it not better to be thus lamented, than to be remembered only by the numbers he had slain, and the miseries he had caused?
Howard visited the prisons of Europe, and relieved the miseries of those who had no helper, and died with their blessings on his head.
Have you ever thought much, my dear young friends, of the miseries of war?
But he had not taken into view the miseries of the private soldier, nor believed that the cup of glory was for others, and the dregs of bitterness for him.
Bid me turn the wheel of industry, or bring water from the fountain, or tend the plants of the garden, or feed a young bird and listen to its song, but let me go no more forth among the vices and miseries of man.
He made me no answer to this part of my letter, but a long eloquent oration of miseries of another nature.
They, too, were pilgrims on earth, who had to suffer the adversities and miseriesof life and therefore know by experience how sorely in need of divine assistance we poor mortals are.
Mary being in heaven nearer to God and more united to Him, knows our miseries better, compassionates them more, and can more efficaciously assist us.
But I will not begin to count up the countless miseries of office to those who have, I will not say a love, but a passion for quiet, leisure, and the country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miseries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
