Use miserable in a sentence
Sentences starting with miserable
- Miserable scrawl! [10]
Sentences ending with miserable
- But her heart was sick and miserable. [11]
- And now you want to make me more miserable. [4]
- Then he said to himself: "Bartja must not stay here; fire and water have more in common than we two--he always fortunate and happy, and I so miserable. [10]
- She merely made them miserable. [11]
- I grant you that those who are overworked and underfed, who are burning with the consciousness of wrongs, who have no outlook ahead, are essentially hopeless and miserable. [9]
- It seemed strange that this acquaintance of my early days should have come back into my life, transformed, to make it more or less miserable. [9]
- I abhor everything that is sick and poor and miserable. [11]
- The happiness was only a gleam, which departed and left him thoroughly, miserable. [5]
- And it will not make me miserable. [5]
- Annette saw, and mourned, entreated, prayed; Jacques was miserable. [11]
Short sentences using miserable
- We are miserable with inaction. [6]
- She grew very miserable. [5]
- Forget all this miserable talk. [5]
- How about the miserable Indians? [6]
- I spent a miserable day. [9]
- O miserable, miserable me! [5]
- What a miserable failure! [4]
- For me--a miserable, broken woman. [13]
- Mary--I am miserable again. [5]
- I am miserable. [5]
Sentences containing miserable two or more times
- I'd be angry when he was angry, miserable when he was miserable, happy when he was happy. [11]
- Nothing would make me more miserable than to believe you miserable, nothing more happy than to know you were so. [7]
- And what made him miserable was, that he couldn't feel miserable when everybody else was miserable. [4]
- Patsy is miserable about it; miserable on account of the neighbors, and particularly miserable on account of her foreigners, of course; so miserable on their account that she hasn't any room to worry about her own little losses. [5]
More example sentences with the word miserable in them
- It will make your whole night miserable, and to no good; for we will hope--" "But it isn't a presentiment--it is a fact. [5]
- What ails you, you, miserable hunchback!--Who gives you a right to toss our cloaks into a corner? [10]
- I won't suppose you to be disgracing yourself in one of those miserable tubs, tugging in which is to rowing the true boat what riding a cow is to bestriding an Arab. [6]
- Tell me, have you ever sold your clothes to the Mart, or whatever the miserable coffin-shop is called? [11]
- I have asked you a great many questions and you have not hesitated to answer, and you may know how I got into this miserable cage and why I stay in it. [10]
- The miserable bravo writes in this letter that he has. [10]
- But the second would weep bitter tears to think what a rayless and barren life that must be which could extract enjoyment from the miserable flimsy wand that has such magic attraction for sauntering youths and simpering maidens. [6]
- In Zorrillo's tent, which was usually brightly lighted until a late hour of the night, only one miserable brand was burning, beside which sat the sleepy bar-maid, darning a hole in her frieze-jacket. [10]
- To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. [7]
- But at last, when the drama had risen to the pitch of unbearable suspense, he looked down upon the two miserable pyramids at his feet, and touched them. [9]
- Very well, then what is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a lean and withered old age? [5]
- Well--well--how miserable we were, and yet, yet. [10]
- If my Myrtilus were still alive, and these miserable eyes yet possessed the power of rejoicing in the light and in beautiful human forms, by the dog! [10]
- If the Seigneur were killed in the encounter--he must defend himself now-- what a miserable notoriety and possible legal penalty and public punishment! [11]
- In our minds we were both looking at those miserable scenes on the 'Fulvia', when Madras sought to adjust the accounts of life and sorely muddled them. [11]
- Loudest of all was the wailing of the Saite Orion who cried with uplifted bands, "What wilt Thou of us miserable creatures, O Lord? [10]
- I wish there was something in that miserable spiritualism, so we could send them word. [5]
- If the dining-room was empty, other unprecedented demands were made upon Henrica, for then her aunt, who could not endure to be alone a moment, was sick and miserable, and she was obliged to nurse her. [10]
- When the King was beheaded at Whitehall he mourned and lamented the miserable crime with the best of his countrymen. [11]
- We bought a wagon and two miserable old horses. [5]
- It was a very dark miserable place, very low and very damp: the walls disfigured by a thousand rents and blotches. [12]
- What still remains useful in this miserable body! [10]
- Try and get us some golden goblets, Bischen; the wine has no flavor out of these miserable brass mugs. [10]
- She was still under the mastery of the feeling that some disagreeable dream had borne her back to these miserable rooms, while her true place was in the magnificent apartments of royalty. [10]
- Mrs. Colfax was under its sway, and doubly miserable because Clarence would listen to her tirades no more. [9]
- His face restlessly turned to the wall--a vexed, stormy, anxious face and head, scarred by the whip of that overlord more cruel and tyrannous than Time, the Miserable Mind. [11]
- He was a traitor, a liar, a miserable scoundrel! [10]
- Do you know to what those miserable papers force me, the Emperor?--ay, force, I repeat it. [10]
- If they were to turn one loose now, he would not get as far as the Garden of Gethsemane, till these miserable vagabonds here would gobble him up,--[Favorite pilgrim expression. [5]
- It is due to these men that Mark Antony still lives and did not come to a miserable end at the hands of his own troops. [10]
- Thus capital came to the assistance of Mr. Jason, a fund was raised, and I was given carte blanche to defend the miserable city auditor and purchasing agent, both of whom elicited my sympathy; for they were stout men, and rapidly losing weight. [9]
- Washington was unable to say anything; he looked from Laura to the miserable creatures who were walking in the corridor with unutterable disgust. [5]
- I was miserable to hear them say it, for it was the same cold fear that was in my own mind. [5]
- Cauchon was ready to go on with his miserable work. [5]
- He had thought to come back to miserable humiliation. [11]
- It was delicious to be out of his reach, perfectly delicious, and made me feel good and thankful all up one side; but I was hanging there helpless and couldn't climb, and that made me feel perfectly wretched and miserable all down the other. [5]
- They waste their time over words, miserable words! [10]
- At your age this miserable scrap of meat is a mere drop of water on a red-hot stone. [10]
- I have remained this miserable man's faithful adviser even unto his end. [10]
- What are the things which others deem best and highest to a miserable wretch like me? [10]
- What a miserable thing it is to be poor. [6]
- I thought of these things in earnest, for I was very miserable and scared. [5]
- The more distance there is between his healthy highness and the miserable invalid, the better. [10]
- Instead of taking them to the goal of the journey, as he had promised, he had deserted them in a miserable tavern by the way-side, among rough, godless lansquenets, as the mother of Moses abandoned her babe. [10]
- They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again--nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long. [5]
- I confess that the two last are clear to me also; still, I could exist without them, though in a miserable fashion, but without food, where should we be? [10]
- A miserable sentimentalist, the Notary was likely to be misunderstood for ever, and one or two indiscretions of his extreme youth had been a weapon against him through the long years of a blameless married life. [11]
- Now, I am the most miserable of men and I might perhaps have been the happiest. [10]
- But what will the miserable men, who don't sit in, be doing while we're squabbling to see who'll have the best rooms? [9]
- The judge fined the miserable hound five dollars for the assault. [5]
- His mood towards the miserable creature changed: he spoke to him in a firm, quiet tone. [11]
- You descend beneath the level of human understanding by madly wallowing in the mire; and the more clearly you are convinced that you have seized the truth, the more utterly you are involved in the toils of a miserable delusion. [10]
- On its river-side the houses and streets were brilliant, but on the hill-slope lay, with but few more respectable exceptions, miserable, poverty-stricken huts constructed of acacia-boughs and Nile-mud. [10]
- The events of the day were interrupting the ordinary run of thought, and I felt at a miserable disadvantage. [11]
- Behind them was the blank failure of a life--fifteen years of miserable torture, of degradation, of a daily descent lower into the pit, of the servitude of shame. [11]
- And the fish that were to be had there were not miserable carp, but heavy gold and silver vessels, and coins and magnificent ornaments. [10]
- I cannot say that the Young Astronomer seemed particularly impressed with a sense of his miserable condition. [6]
- It is said that the Margravine would give herself up to debauchery and exceedingly fast living for several months at a time, and then retire to this miserable wooden den and spend a few months in repenting and getting ready for another good time. [5]
- How is it that man clings so fondly to this miserable existence, and would fain slink away, and hide himself when the angel calls and the golden gates open before him! [10]
- What though my teeth are chattering, I am none the less a most miserable creature. [10]
- The hill-sides of Syria are riddled with holes, where miserable hermits, whose lives it had palsied, lived and died like the vermin they harbored. [6]
- Here,' said Mr Swiveller raising his voice to a high pitch, and looking sleepily round, 'is a miserable orphan! [12]
- Think of the surly indifference of the storms that swept the forest and the waters, the earthquake chasms that engulfed him, the inundations that drowned him out of his miserable hiding-places, the pestilences that lay in wait for him, the unequal strife with ferocious animals! [6]
- His wife was still clapping her hands at his side, but Lienhard, as though deaf and blind to everything else, was gazing at the page which the miserable little elf was just giving him. [10]
- Then the auctioneer stepped up to her, and gave her a blow with his whip, that she might rouse herself up, and appear less miserable to the buyers. [10]
- At this he sprang after her into the barge, saying in her ear in a tremulous whisper: "A wretch, a miserable man entreats your mercy. [10]
- Verily, your great spirit can be but a weak and miserable creature, if he need a covering from the wind and rain, and a shelter from the heat which he himself has created. [10]
- In the miserable, sobbing, enfeebled man whose leg had just been amputated, he recognized Anatole Kuragin. [2]
- He was feeling so defeated and miserable by this time that he could no longer look with philosophical complacency on the horseplay of the young fellows in the upper rooms at night. [5]
- Indigestion, nausea, headache, sleeplessness,--all combined to produce miserable depression of spirits. [14]
- She was delighted, she showed it to her brothers and sisters, and laid it by the statues of her ancestors; but I was miserable with shame and penitence, and at last I secretly took away the stone, and threw it into the water. [10]
- I spoke up sharply and said: "Look here, you miserable ash-cat! [5]
- The man who shall catch you asleep, my lord Captain, must rise earlier than such miserable hunted wretches as we are. [10]
- At first it seemed to her that a trap had been set, and that David was to be the victim of Oriental duplicity; but revolt, as she did, from the miserable creature before them, she saw at last that he spoke the truth. [11]
- Her own worth seemed clearer to her than ever before, from a comparison with these miserable creatures, and a wonderful certainty of ultimate victory stole into her heart, for Nitetis was a firm believer in the magic power of virtue. [10]
- Let us not seek to penetrate what mysteries they contain; for how can we, miserable sinners that we are, know the terrible and holy secrets of Providence while we remain in this flesh which forms an impenetrable veil between us and the Eternal? [2]
- Homoeopathy may be said, then, to be in a sufficiently miserable condition in Paris. [3]
- If I should sacrifice what I think right, merely to come and go at my own will, I should soon be not only miserable myself, but the object of your contempt. [10]
- For the very rottenness of the service was due to the miserable and servile Ministry and Parliament of his Majesty, by means of which instruments he was forcing the colonies to the wall. [9]
- He paced his room, a prey to jealousy and envy and rage, which his calm temperament had kept him from feeling in their intensity up to this miserable hour. [6]
- He spoke the ringin', lightnin' truth....Then he accused Tull of the underhand, miserable robbery of a helpless woman. [13]
- I had a right to expect that you would be more eager to hear me out than to shorten the time of waiting for these miserable merchants. [10]
- The doctor in Richtberg knows a word, by which he shall turn you all into toads and rats, you miserable rascals! [10]
- And here's the result of it: He lives in our fine house, and we live in his miserable log cabin. [5]
- As Professor Waitz remarks, "however poor and miserable man is, he finds a pleasure in adorning himself. [1]
- She longed to remain miserable and poor on earth, that she might rejoin her parents and dwell with them eternally. [10]
- I had the promise of the Church's prison when I submitted, and if I had but been there, and not left here in the hands of my enemies, this miserable fate had not befallen me. [5]
- Recalling these miserable proceedings which I have been telling you about, Manchon testified thus:--here you have it, all in fair print in the unofficial history: When Joan spoke of her apparitions she was interrupted at almost every word. [5]
- Loveless and malignant privity, miserable folly, and such schemes as might have been dreamed of in a mad-house! [10]
- He left the presence too miserable to even feel revengeful toward Sid; and so the latter's prompt retreat through the back gate was unnecessary. [5]
- The man who possesses such a treasure as I have in thee, will guard it carefully, but never care to seek for others which, by its side, can only show their miserable poverty. [10]
- It was a poor, miserable imposture. [5]
- The sight of poor Garvin's white and wasted features, the terrible contrast between this miserable tenement and the palace with its unseen pictures and porcelains and tapestries, brought home to him with indescribable poignancy his own predicament. [9]
- We transformed the poor creatures into a motionless, miserable mass, and just now they were cleaving the air with their strong wings, proclaiming by proud, glad cries to their families among the reeds their approach with an abundant store of prey. [10]
- Although we were perched so strangely upon boxes, trunks and beds, and so strangely attired, too, we were too earnestly distressed and too genuinely miserable to see any fun about it, and there was not the semblance of a smile anywhere visible. [5]
- Better one honest passion than a life of deception and miserable compromise. [11]
- How he raged over the miserable indecision which had defrauded him of so much joy! [10]
- Here's a miserable orphan for you. [12]
- I'd rather lie on thorns than enter the miserable hole. [10]
- The cold brought on severe toothache; toothache was the cause of a succession of restless miserable nights; and long wakefulness told acutely upon her nerves, making them feel with redoubled sensitiveness all the harass of her oppressive life. [14]
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