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wretch sentence examples

  • How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!
  • A gentleman said that a week ago he was the vilest wretch in the county, but now saved.
  • He played the spy upon us, and surprised us together in bed, base wretch.
  • No, i'd be quite content to see the wretches herded into re-education camps.
  • Oh, was there in all the world a more miserable wretch than he!
  • I gave the poor wretch the wherewithal to bury his daughter and to leave england.
  • He called himself unhappy wretch at being suspected of treason toward a man for whom he would have given his life.
  • An appeal to perishing sinners to trust in christ is like calling on a drowning wretch to climb the embankment wall.
  • Have a care of her, she is too good by far for a poor wretch like me.
  • Have not the most cursed wretches been forced to cry out, oh!
  • Oh, unfortunate wretch that i am, now i must change whether i will or no!
  • Had the ship passed one quarter of an hour sooner, i had died there a wretch as i lived.
  • Why don't you go away you little ignorant wretch?

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