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Meanings of own wretchedness in English

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Usage of own wretchedness in English
1
I will quit London altogether, and leave you to your own wretchedness.
The Way We Live Now
2
Whereas those who have known God by a mediator know their own wretchedness.
Pascal's Pensées
3
Those films seem now to have been killed off by their own wretchedness.
The Irish Times
4
And now he had declared the whole truth of his own wretchedness and discomfiture.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
5
I wasn't the sort of woman who ends her own wretchedness in that way.
Man and Wife
6
You must not give way to this morbid desire to increase her own wretchedness.
Uncle Max
7
This was the last straw to Parrot's own wretchedness.
The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
8
Sidney, mastering his own wretchedness, which he could not altogether conceal, made attempts to strengthen her.
The Nether World
9
How fortunate that few of these unhappy ones had the imagination to realize their own wretchedness!
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
10
In a cold and quiet voice she reminded him of her own wretchedness, and of Karl's reputation.
Long Live the King!
11
But we cannot know Jesus Christ without knowing at the same time both God and our own wretchedness.
Pascal's Pensées
12
Look here, now; I couldn't stan' it, concluded Mr. Growther, overcome by the picture of his own wretchedness.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
13
His own wretchedness was like a personal injury, and an offence that he could resent would have been a positive relief.
Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 1
14
Then she pulled herself together to write to Lord Melbourne an account of all that had happened, and of her own wretchedness.
Queen Victoria
15
So then if a man would be kept sure and stedfast, let him labour before all things to know his own wretchedness.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
16
It would be like him to see this as a noble gesture, a very good reason for dying and ending his own wretchedness.
An impartial witness: a bess crawford mystery
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