They ruled over Scinde with a rod of iron, living entirely for themselves, and wallowing in wealth, while their people were living in the most wretched condition.
Late in the session Mr. Wilberforce renewed his motion for the abolition of the slave-trade; and though his proposition was rejected, several regulations were enacted for alleviating the sufferings of the wretched Africans on their passage.
The agents of these absentees exacted the rents with bitter severity, and often the dwelling of the wretched occupier was pulled down about his sick and starving children, who frequently perished within the roofless walls.
After a series of operations, Lord Hood was compelled to evacuate the town, and its wretched inhabitants were left to the mercy of their furious republican conquerors.
Poor child, how wretched she was till "peace bound up her bleeding heart," and even then the arrow had pierced too deep for healing.
As Mr. Luzerne looked on the wretched woman lying at his feet, his face grew deathly pale.
Annette, I feel that you are right; but I am too wretched to realize the force of what you say.
Just now some of us are interested in getting our people out of these wretched alleys and crowded tenement houses into the larger, freer air of the country.
A cadaverous wretched creature, yet doubtless with strength enough in his forefinger to make the seven-pound pull of a rifle.
The brigade-major was there, a wretched worn object of a man, plodding by the eccentric light of a tallow dip through the day's telegrams.
You who sit at home and rail at the conduct of the campaign, rail at the wretched officer, regimental or staff, little know what is expected of him.
In vain: shunning all further thought of the miserable couple in the next room, he was driven back upon himself, to his wretched wondering: "What have I done?
He had heard gossip of the final catastrophe of a notoriously wretched marriage.
So far as it was at all lucid the play seemed to represent Agamemnon as a wretched man driven to a miserable end by a shrewish wife and daughter.
Poor heart of woman, how lovely, yet how wretched in delusion!
And this wretched piece of wit was, in the circumstances, received as excellent.
O, Archie, let's get away out of this fearful place," sobbed thewretched obstruction.
Such was the wretched aspect of the heavens to my debilitated intelligence, as I slunk home from the swimming-hole, toward midnight.
I have a wretched memory for faces, yet yours seems familiar; and I 'm certain I've heard your voice before.
Nor could the wretched people prevail upon the Atheling (Beowulf) in any wise to show himself lord of Heardred or to be choosing the kingship.
But not by any means thus did that wretched creature get any help, nor by that did the evil-doer, brought low by sin, live any longer.
And the live-long night he vowed woe upon the wretched troop, and said that on the morrow he would by the edge of the sword slay some and hang them up on the gallows-tree for a sport of the birds.
Nor have I heard under vault of heaven of a harder night-struggle, nor of a more wretched man on the sea-streams.
He was a friend to the wretched Eadgils, and helped Eadgils the son of Ohthere with an army with warriors and with weapons, over the wide seas.
That wretched climate played the deuce with me, and they graciously gave me a step and allowed me to retire upon it.
He had slept badly for some weeks--since the time of that wretched letter.
On the contrary, I shall be glad to do something which pleases you, and to-morrow, if you like, you shall be the owner of that wretched hole.
He hastened his step, took her hand, and said in a low voice and hurriedly: "I am the most wretched of beings!
In five minutes they must be in that apparently wretchedantiquarian shop, where Maryan had discovered the amazing porcelain.
Wretched makeup--hash, with which our age does not wish now to feed itself.
That 'wretched hole,' as you call it, is just the place that mamma desires.
Before her imagination passed the wretched forms of women trailing in the dusk of evening along the sidewalks.
She dozed off into a sleep which was haunted by these images and in which she felt so wretched that she began to sob.
The reasons which prompted the wretched woman's actions I do not know.
He went away jesting; and Veronique heard the two men exchange a few sentences which proved to her that Otto and Conrad were only supers who knew nothing of the business in hand: "Who's this wretched woman whom you're persecuting?
The wretched creature is tied up in the twinkling of an eye.
I am here to learn, and I would know what force or power can so well-nigh destroy this wretched center.
If there was chance for a thief, there might be hope for me," she sighed as her wretched face brightened.
They stood again in their wretched dilemma and heard the sound of distant waters, doleful to their ears, and from this they could distinguish the bitter wails of those who also found that they could not return.
But the unfortunate victim fell to herwretched ruin before the hands of Miss Church-Member could give assistance.
But when I saw the father senseless on the ground, and the son expiring before my eyes, I felt as if I was accursed, as if the brand of Cain were on my brow, and that it was my fate to roam through the world an isolated and wretched being.
This was a piece of news I never expected--that what abounds in every little wretched village in India, could not be purchased in this great city!
Nor can any thing be imagined more wretched than their condition at the present time, when the salmon is fast retiring, when roots are becoming scarce, and they have not yet acquired strength to hazard an encounter with their enemies.
While we stopped, the women were busily employed in collecting the root of a plant with which they feed their children, who like their mothers are nearly half starved and in a wretched condition.
Nought of all this wretched world will come to turn my soul from its adoration of Thee.
If you only knew how wretched you have made me these last few days, with your stupid ways, never seeing me or hearing me!
The priest lowered his dazzled glance upon the village, whose few scattered houses straggled away below the church--wretched hovels they were of rubble and boards strewn along a narrow path without sign of streets.
Hardly was this made public, when one day a wretched individual accosted me in the street, and loaded me with insults.
Taman is the most wretched of all our maritime towns.
And now he would again make me miserable with this wretched prudence, and this time my misery would last to all eternity!
I arrived very late at night in a wretched telega.
Although held in slavery by the Burgunds, the lot of the surviving portion of the population was less wretched than that of their brothers in most of the other conquered provinces.
Alas," moaned the wretched man, "what a terrible law that law is, good father!
The Creator made His children after his own image; He made them good in order that they may be happy; blind, wretched or ignorant are the wicked.
Of course having had his tongue cut out he was not able to taste the sauces; but he is nevertheless a wretched cook.
All day long the wretched Nomfunda lay beneath the undermined bank of a donga.
Thus, no one dwelt nearer to the hut where the wretched victims lay bound awaiting their doom than the women and boys occupying the huts at the left-hand point, beyond the cattle kraal.
The wretched man already felt the strangling rope around his neck.
They brought us clothes, and furnished one of our out-houses with kitchen utensils; so that by daylight we had another, though a wretched dwelling, to retire to.
Vindex also described Nero as a wretched twangler on the harp.
The familia of Pudens only consisted of the modest number of thirty, but the slave population of Rome was of colossal magnitude, and there was a terrible free-masonry among the members of this wretched and corrupted class.
Then will you ask them to say something which may avert the fury of Atè from one who, to you, is not ashamed to confess that she is wretched above all women?
Were not the wretched little islets of Gyara and Tremerus crowded with illustrious and innocent exiles?
Her mother had been cruelly murdered; her aunt, the younger Julia, had died in disgrace and exile on a wretched islet.
Then he passed over to his favourite retreat in the Servilian gardens, and slept as well as he could his last wretched sleep on earth.
Whoever extolled hiswretched voice was his friend; whoever praised it insufficiently was his enemy.
I, the Emperor, ask thee, the doomed and wretched Jew, to tell me what will happen.
The firelight began to glow and flicker on the walls, and the wretched room to look as homely as it was in its nature to look.
Viewed by the light of a cold morning, the inn-room looked more smoky, more grimy, more wretched than when I had last seen it.
Till he cries with St Paul, "O wretched man that I am!
Pay him at once and be done with him: but never think to escape out of his clutches, as too many wretched and foolish sinners do, by running up a fresh score with him, and trying to hide old sins by new ones.
The women and children had just been driven back from the fields where they had been digging and weeding, and they had been served with their wretched dinners.
For a moment it seemed as if he were going to kill the wretched man without word or explanation, but he mastered himself with a supreme effort, put him down, took the vacant seat at the table and cried: "Stand before me there.
As he left them thewretched creatures all gave a shout--a shout of acclamation.
Not for a good deal of money would he have remained to see those wretchedhovels knocked to pieces.
