Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.
Your purpos'd low correction Is such as basest and contemn'dest wretches For pilf'rings and most common trespasses Are punish'd with.
Prove it a conspiracy, Prudence Brooke—prove it so that I can get my revenge upon these wretches and you may ask what reward you will.
Yes, society thus organized, whether it tolerates or imposes so much misery, loses all right to blame the poor wretches who sell themselves not through debauchery, but because they are cold and famishing.
I am like the famished wretches who have been some days without food.
Society, perhaps, may then feel its obligation to so many unfortunatewretches for supporting, with resignation, the horrible existence which leaves them just sufficient life to feel the worst pangs of humanity.
The highest of them are no higher than my tunic; but they are high enough to trample on the necks of those wretches who throw themselves on the ground before them.
The canonico fell on his knees, and overthrew the two poor wretches who, saying their prayers, had remained in the same posture before him quite unnoticed.
This proves that one should not be too ready to believe the reports of the wretches whom we are obliged to employ in the police.
One of those wretcheswho are employed in certain circumstances, and by all parties, came to offer his services to me.
He afterwards said to me, "There are plenty of wretches who are selling me every day to the English without my being subjected to English spying.
The wretches shall receive the reward due to this new crime.
Such miserable wretches are often caught in the snares they spread for others.
It is difficult to conceive the great courage and presence of mind sometimes found in men so degraded as are the wretches who fill the office of spies.
The wretches erected a scaffold and hanged a figure dressed in a French uniform covered with blood.
A hundred of these wretches who have libeled liberty by perpetrating crimes in her name must be effectually prevented from renewing their atrocities.
As a consequence it had gone to pieces; while the wretches who had occupied it, not having the strength to cling either to cask or spar, had indubitably gone to the bottom.
Many of the wretches even jested while it was in progress; and a stranger to the dread conditions under which the drawing was being made might have supposed it a raffle for some trifling prize!
When we had talked a while, the captain told me he had brought me some little refreshment, such as the ship afforded, and such as the wretches that had been so long his masters had not plundered him of.
So all that night the miserable wretches crouched fireless together.
The ninth sun of their freedom, rising upon sandy and barren hillocks, bristling thick with cruel scrub, sees the six famine-stricken wretches cursing their God, and yet afraid to die.
Those who lead the poor condemned wretches to the fire, and throw them into the flames, gain indulgences for one hundred years.
I fancied every human being capable of this kind of virtue on a good opportunity, saving, indeed, such base-hearted wretches as can never forgive their very forgivers; and of these I certainly did not suppose him to be one.
Perhaps now lying at the doors of their betrayers, they sue to wretches whose hearts are insensible, or debauchees who may curse, but will not relieve them.
Ye wretches who, by fortune's hate, In want and sorrow groan; Come ponder his severer fate, 25 And learn to bless your own.
London, in whose cellars and garrets hundreds of poor wretches yearly die of starvation, contains many such princes.
But the greater number fell by the hands of the wretches who in these times of outrage and anarchy swarmed out of the low quarters of the cities, and swept unchecked over the whole country in hundreds and thousands.
Here I saw them that same afternoon; nor can it be said that I or the others who viewed the lifeless remains felt any pity in our hearts for the wretches on whom had fallen a most righteous retribution for their crimes.
Great numbers of thosewretches who, by proper regulations, might have been rendered serviceable to the community, were executed as examples; and the rest perished miserably, amidst the stench and horrors of noisome dungeons.
They accordingly provided cellars and places strewed with straw, to which they conveyed those wretches who were overwhelmed with intoxication.
It was this, that men of rank employed themselves in the culture of the fields; whereas now it is left to wretches loaded with fetters, who carry in their countenances the shameful evidence of their slavery.
When put on board the ships, the poor unhappy wretches were chained to each other, hand and foot, and stowed so close, that they were not allowed above a foot and a half for each individual in breadth.
That Supreme Deity, rushing to the spot whither those wretches among Danavas, of terrible aspect, are dwelling in thousands below the earth, will slay them all.
Those that fly away from battle are wretchesamong men.
Let not suchwretches among men be born in thy race.
If an honest man wishes to exchange words with suchwretches when they seek to humiliate him, he should be counselled in these words: Do not suffer thyself to be afflicted.
That man is a fool who would make any covenant with those miserable wretches or exact any oath from them (for relying upon it).
Thou hast discoursed to us upon the slanderous speeches uttered by wicked-souled wretches of bad conduct.
Death to the cowardly wretches who have outraged my honour!
So many drowningwretches crowded into it, as soon as it came near, that it sank with their weight, and all were lost.
At ten o'clock no doubt all were asleep, for hosts of beggars and poor wretches were snoring by the roadsides.
The two wretches approaching the camping place rolled their eyes in terror, glancing over there.
In another moment, he felt, the thing would forget its respect and return his grimaces, so he ignored it and fixed his attention on Meeus and the trembling wretches he was addressing.
Such, I believe, is too often the history of those wretches whom a fit of religious enthusiasm, likest to insanity, hurries away to the Holy Land.
These half-starved wretchescut steaks from the choice portions, and slung them over their shoulders till an opportunity of cooking might arrive.
I once asked a learned Arab what induced the wretches to rush upon destruction, as they do, when the Faith renders pilgrimage obligatory only upon those who can afford necessaries for the way.
The unhappy wretches condemned to exposure there were placed with head and hands protruding through holes in a revolving wheel, and were left for three hours on three market days, to the gibes and missiles of the populace.
In 1776 two poor starving wretches were hanged on the gallows of the Place de Grève at Paris for having stolen some bread from a baker's shop.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wretches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
