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Meanings of own misery in English

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Usage of own misery in English
1
His mind continually fell away into the contemplation of his own misery.
Up the Hill and Over
2
You have poured out your own misery on her day and night.
The Great Hunger
3
Munch's own misery may be programmatic, but his prints are utterly dynamic.
The Guardian
4
Brenda, squirming on the floor, seemed wrapped up in her own misery.
Come out tonight
5
I was callous to everything, dead to everything but my own misery.
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
6
To be sure, I'd better say my own misery made me come.
Red Fleece
7
It went on suffering and raging in its own misery and shame.
Sympathy for the devil
8
Etta had gone back to her own misery and the contrasts to it.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
9
His own misery no longer occupied the forefront of his poor groping brain.
The Obstacle Race
10
She had a purpose in life which was greater than her own misery.
The road to rome: a forgotten legion chronicle
11
You never thought that he was wantonly sad and enjoying his own misery.
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors
12
You'd see it too if you weren't so stuck on your own misery.
Wife for hire
13
She sat there for some time, wrapped in her own misery.
Roma Victrix
14
Thus month after month passed by, and every day brought its own misery.
Tales from Two Hemispheres
15
She was roused from her sense of her own sufferings, her own misery.
The Forfeit
16
She was lost in her own misery again-her eyes looked drowned.
Transgression: a novel of love and war
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Own misery through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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