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Example sentences for "wretched state"

  • Die is my dew: yet rew my wretched state 8 You, whom my hard auenging destinie Hath made iudge of my life or death indifferently.

  • The Amours of an Old Batchellor, or the Downfall of Sir Limberham; likewise the four different Stages of Life; or the abject, wretched State of an Old Maid.

  • Being a lively representation of the Address of young Lovers, the Raptures of a new-married couple; the reciprocal Harmony of Antient wedded companions; and the abject, wretched state of an Old Maid.

  • Where may be had 'The abject, wretched state of an Old Maid, and divers other curious Fans; the Designs taken from the best Masters.

  • Chanden Sing and Man Sing were also in a wretched state.

  • But my conscience crieth out, and bids me take heed To love my Lord God above all earthly gain; Whereby all this while I stand in great dread, That if I should God's statutes disdain, In wretched state then I should remain.

  • And sith the lots of our unconstant fate Have turn'd our former bliss to wretched state, I am content to tread the woful dance, That sounds the measure of our hapless chance.

  • In Struensee's time there were streets in Copenhagen without a name: the houses were not numbered, and the lighting of the streets was in a wretched state.

  • She spoke with grief of the king's wretched state, which she stated to have grown much worse since the tour of 1767.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    along shore; ancestral spirits; best wishes; burnt upon the altar; chronic interstitial; each copy; get his; good manners; heavenly body; lifting surface; marriage customs; modern culture; olian harp; other peoples; real danger; shoot him; that can; thin muslin; thou holy; universal nature; will put; wretched state