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Sentences starting with misery

Misery and mystery were in my heart all at once. [11]
Misery me, he sit on dat rocking-stone you see tipping on de wind. [11]
Misery and anger possessed her, and she fought on with herself through dark hours. [11]
Misery was heavy on her. [11]
Misery loves company. [5]

Sentences ending with misery

I know how you hide in areas, how you talk sedition in private, how you have made money out of other men's misery. [9]
It was a world of ease, simplicity, and beauty; now it is a scene of desolation and misery. [5]
His voice roughened with misery. [11]
It would be wise, mother, for you to leave this abode of misery. [10]
The letters the winged messengers had brought were read aloud from the windows of the town-hall, and the courage of the populace, pressed to the extremest limits of endurance, flickered up anew and helped them bear their misery. [10]
It was his wife's sister, my sister whom my brother drowned for her money--he made her life such a misery! [11]
When one thinks who and what--what trash--can cause people misery! [2]
Moreover, his newly-acquired wealth would enable her to help many indigent persons in their need and misery. [10]
Once more he ventured to protest, but I told him my resolution was fixed, and that I would at all costs secure escape from my six years' misery. [11]
I have never thought a great deal about these things, of course, and I never understood before why taking away the tariff caused so much misery. [9]

Short sentences using misery

My life is sheer misery. [10]
The misery is real. [4]
The heart-sinking misery of it! [5]
And this is misery. [4]
You'll see enough misery here. [8]
Nothing could quench his misery. [11]
His misery oppressed her. [11]

Sentences containing misery two or more times

The drenching we were getting was misery enough, but a deeper misery still was the reflection that the halter might end us before we were a day older. [5]
Some are born rich and some are born poor, and this inequality makes misery, and then some lose their possessions, which others get hold of, and that makes more misery. [4]
And to have known it with all its misery,--for misery there must be; misery, Jasmine, there is--to have known it, to have felt it, the great overwhelming thing, goes far to compensate for all the loss it so terribly exposes. [11]
The great mistake follows the man, and, by a greater misery, breaks the misery of the bandbox; or the man himself, hating his captivity, becomes reckless, does some mad thing, and has a miserable end. [11]

More example sentences with the word misery in them

The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
The answer to your arguments is to be seen on every side, atheism, hypocrisy, vice, misery, insane and cruel grasping after wealth. [9]
However, as the woman seemed likely to die with the convulsions that were tearing her, they concluded that the third could do no more than put her out of her misery with a happy dispatch. [5]
He had died without knowing the truth, and her heart was hardened against him who had brought misery upon her. [11]
I even have wished that I, half peasant, had been--" "If only you had been all peasant, this war, this misery of mine, had never been," she interrupted. [11]
Punch--punch--oh, this misery will kill me! [5]
Whoever knows it, whoever serves it, whoever impresses it deeply on his soul and only breathes and moves in it, no longer has any taint of baseness; he soars high above the earth, and knows nothing of misery and death. [10]
O friends, we who live in peace and plenty amongst our families, how little do we realize the terror and the misery and the dumb heart-aches of those days! [9]
I knew not whether he lied concerning Alixe, but my heart was wrung with misery, for indeed he spoke with an air of truth. [11]
She understood that when speaking of "trash" he referred not only to Mademoiselle Bourienne, the cause of her misery, but also to the man who had ruined his own happiness. [2]
One can laugh when misery and danger are over, and it would be easy to turn this matter into ridicule, but from that hour to this the wooden cross which turned the flood of my feelings then into a saving channel has never left me. [11]
You don't know what trouble is--you don't know what misery is--nor hunger! [5]
Could he know what misery she was in, the daily witness of her father's broken condition, of her mother's uncertain temper? [4]
All through your watch you are tortured with the exquisite misery of uncertainty. [5]
His sole wish was to forget his misery, though but for a brief time. [10]
Even so, he was not innocent of Lucy's misery and death, of the death of the little one who only opened its eyes to the light for an instant, and then went into the dark again. [11]
Many said it was not in Father Peter's character and must be a mistake; but the others shook their heads and said misery and want could drive a suffering man to almost anything. [5]
If he is visited by infirmity--only look at me!--how much misery I have suffered from this curse, terrible enough in itself, and tainting everything with the bitterness of wormwood! [10]
The number of victims swelled daily, and the approach of the comet kept pace with the growing misery of the town. [10]
We beheld around us, to-day, selfishness, ruthless competition, as great contrasts between misery and luxury as in the days of the Roman Empire. [9]
You brought misery upon an old man, and ruined his life and broke his heart. [5]
If it's the unhappy who see unhappiness, think what misery must be revealed to people who pass their lives in the really squalid tenement-house streets--I don't mean picturesque avenues like that we passed through. [8]
Presently Tim moved uneasily, then got up and walked about; and at last, with a strange, awed look, when an hour was past, he stole back into the shadow of the trees, while still the wounded soul poured out its misery and repentance. [11]
And they say too, that of all hearts Thine is the most loving, and so thou wilt know how it is that, in spite of all my misery, it still seems to me that I am a happy woman. [10]
One must go to the Bois de Boulogne to see fashionable dressing, splendid equipages and stunning liveries, and to the Faubourg St. Antoine to see vice, misery, hunger, rags, dirt--but in the thoroughfares of Naples these things are all mixed together. [5]
A step forward to that wagon, a word uttered, a look, and he would have to face again the life he had put by for ever, would have to meet a hard problem and settle it--to what misery and tragedy, who might say? [11]
Must I stay, to prevent the misery that threatens to overtake others? [10]
He who was to perish in misery is permitted, with a sword at his side, to gloat over our destruction. [10]
Life had been to me pleasant enough--without care, without misery, open, strong and free; our people were not as those others which had learned the white man's vices. [11]
Her misery seemed to him a touching proof of the transitory nature of all earthly things. [10]
Her hand went to her heart with a gesture of pain, and a little cry of misery escaped her lips. [11]
But she seemed to have been born to misery, and wandered mournfully about, weeping and lamenting because she lacked an object for which to labour. [10]
He is about to enter the horse-car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching picture of misery, puts out her lean hand and begs for rescue from hunger and death. [5]
To get used to a thought, to have it so near her, that if the man--if Laforce himself came, she would have herself schooled to endure the shadow and the misery of it all? [11]
How real was thy misery for the moment, thou poor lad! [5]
Well, we sped through the wild night, the bitter storm raged on, a cheerless misery stole over me, my heart went down, down, down! [5]
But who'd have thought it, when I came into this house, in such a state of sin and misery, half an hour ago--" "Three houahs and a half ago! [8]
I've made mistakes, though, in my time--" He stopped, and Beaton was not proof against the misery of his face, which was twisted as with some strong physical ache. [8]
And we have this misery on our consciences. [9]
In utter misery they waited on the stairs while Cynthia fought out her battle for herself. [9]
Men who hear themselves designated as the sovereign people, and their welfare as the supreme law of the state, are more apt than others to feel more keenly the distance which separates their own misery from the superabundance of others. [4]
How fortunate for them they did not sooner become sensible of their great misery! [7]
There was all the usual misery, both noisy and silent. [10]
The misery and the tyranny and the unrequited love were all behind her, the disillusion and the loss and the undeserved insult to her womanhood--all, all were sunk away into the unredeemable past. [11]
Far over under the trees a man sat upon the ground, his head upon his arms, and his arms upon his knees, in a misery unmeasurable. [11]
All joined in the toast, and after the cheers had died away, Aquanus said: "Who would not gladly recall the exquisite Sunday of October third; but when I think of the misery that preceded it, my heart contracts, even at the present day. [10]
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. [10]
What has caused the sorrows that bespeak better and happier days, to those lavish out such heaps of misery? [5]
Adrian sturdily attacked the smoking dishes; but his heart soon grew heavy, for his father did not utter a word, and gazed into vacancy as gravely and anxiously as at the time when misery entered the beleaguered city. [10]
As it opened, the Seigneur sank back in the chair, a look of helpless misery, touched by a fierce pride, covering his face. [11]
But had I the right to add to the misery of this sweet, brave spirit? [11]
In spite of the misery the news had brought, the thought that his father, too, who was fighting Jethro Bass as a righteous man, dealt in mortgages and coerced men to do his will, was overwhelming. [9]
They said that the misery of this shave had gone so far beyond any thing they had ever experienced before, that they could not bear the idea of losing such a chance of hearing a cordial opinion from me on the subject. [5]
The houseless prince, the homeless heir to the throne of England, still moved on, drifting deeper into the maze of squalid alleys where the swarming hives of poverty and misery were massed together. [5]
This error is the foundation of much social misery. [4]
With unutterable misery the fettered little King heard the voices and footsteps fade away and die out. [5]
So this was the end of it all--friendship gone with the man before him; shame come to the woman he loved; misery to every one; a home-life shattered; and from the souls of three people peace banished for evermore. [11]
The shivering of the boat under the beating of the wheels was sheer misery to them. [5]
And he hopes that they will be brave enough to face his misery, if it must come. [11]
So it is that the best of us may at times desire misery to thousands that our own malice may be fed. [9]
They have also that other misery of packing and unpacking trunks--of running the distressing gauntlet of custom-houses--of the anxieties attendant upon getting a mass of baggage from point to point on land in safety. [5]
He had believed that even the hardest hearts could not fail to pity his misery so, hard as it was for him, he had knocked at a peasant's door and begged. [10]
But the chain that bound him to his companions in suffering was too firmly forged, and was so carefully examined and hammered every morning and evening, that the attempt to escape would only have plunged him into greater misery. [10]
So it is that a great silent-moving misery puts a new stamp on us in an hour or a moment,--as sharp an impression as if it had taken half a lifetime to engrave it. [6]
I will not tell you what misery he underwent, what agony of soul he knew, how great his mental struggle was. [12]
The spirit of Tarautas would again appear to him--and not merely as a vaporous illusion--and put an end to his utter misery. [10]
His being seemed suspended in an atmosphere of misery and helplessness. [11]
Out of the sunset had come her father with a face twisted with misery, and as she ran to him, he had caught her by both shoulders, looked through her eyes to something far beyond, and hoarsely said: "She is gone--gone from us! [11]
The cause was sufficient; he had not tasted food for forty-eight hours, and he could not endure the misery of his hunger in idle hiding. [5]
She, Janet, seemed suddenly to have grown old herself, to have lived through ages of misery and tragedy.... She was aware of a pungent odour, went to the stove, picked up the fork, and turned the steak. [9]
I never saw such a numb misery in any face. [11]
It had been stolen, and in all the bitter days to come, when poverty and misery ground them down, no hint of the thief, no sign of the robber, was ever revealed. [11]
I thought of St. John's, as you did, as an oasis in a desert of misery and vice. [9]
They were all spent with the fatigue that comes from heaven to such misery as theirs, and they sat in a torpor in which each waited for the other to move, to speak. [8]
What more pleasing spectacle than this in a world that has such a bad name for want and misery? [4]
But the deliverer soon reached the first convicts, and the glad tidings that he had come to save them from their misery speedily extended to the inmost depths of the mines. [10]
But there would soon be a blaze of light, and what misery must await the hapless victim of her faithlessness, still so far from perfect health! [10]
How we shall smile, when all this misery is done! [11]
In the morning Slade practised on him with his revolver, nipping the flesh here and there, and occasionally clipping off a finger, while Jules begged him to kill him outright and put him out of his misery. [5]
I meant to sit it through and make them get up and do the bowing; but at last Joe took pity on me and said he would get up and drop them a curtsy and put me out of my misery. [5]
He drew a sigh of relief and misery in one. [11]
He was only sick and dumb, and he trembled with misery as he lifted up his father's head. [11]
The air was shrieking with the misery of mutilated men and horses and the ghoulish laughter of pom-poms. [11]
But as it shone upon the ruins of the mill, when Jean Jacques went out into the working world again, it made so gaunt and hideous a picture that, in spite of himself, a cry of misery came from his lips. [11]
Weeks dragged by, she watching, waiting, hoping, her mind going slowly to wreck under the burden of her misery. [5]
To whom should she go in her vague misery? [6]
Oh, say we shall, say we shall smile, and all this misery cease. [11]
O misery of semi-provincial fashionable life, where wealth is at its wit's end to avoid being tired of an existence which has all the labor of keeping up appearances, without the piquant profligacy which saves it at least from being utterly vapid! [6]
I can only see that every moment of waiting would be a misery for us both. [9]
Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled, trampled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France. [5]
Why, for a scrap of bread and a drop of wine from the hand of his priest he would see you and all of us plunged into misery! [10]
The longer he sat, the deeper did his misery sink into his soul. [11]
There was the same thick air, difficult to breathe; the same blighted ground, the same hopeless prospect, the same misery and distress. [12]
Her father, Agatha said, lived in constant warfare with the misery and suffering of his fellow-creatures, and he was, in fact, able to make those about him happy and prosperous. [10]
He crossed the room, on tiptoe, as though he feared to wake once more this poor wretch to his misery and hate, Gently he covered again the face with the sheet. [9]
Agitation can only result in anarchy and misery for all. [9]
She often silently repeated this to herself; yet only too frequently her impetuous heart rebelled against the misery which she felt that she would encounter. [10]
And behind this redoubtable and sinister Eldon Parr he saw, as it were, the wraith of that: other who had once confessed the misery of his loneliness. [9]
Let this terrible record of lack of employment and misery be compared with the prosperity under Republican rule. [9]
For the very reason that these days were so full of misery and perhaps drawing nearer to the end, she must remain, first for the sake of the Queen, but also to watch over Barine. [10]

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