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Meanings of wretched existence in English

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Usage of wretched existence in English
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He himself, poisoned by Charles de Navarre, dragged out a wretched existence.
Catherine De Medici
2
Their wretched existence is passed in perpetual contest and perpetual change.
The Coming Race
3
There they drag out a wretched existence in disappointed hope, satiety and disgust.
Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation
4
But an extreme resource was necessary to preserve our wretched existence.
Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 / Undertaken by Order o...
5
But what a wretched existence was mine when all this was denied me!
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point / Autobiog...
6
That must be a wretched existence, forced to lie when you don't want to.
Seraphina
7
Had he been enslaved, and was he still lingering on, in a wretched existence?
With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
8
Ef you-all refuse me, Ah shall end this wretched existence in life widdout love!
Polly and Eleanor
9
El Zagal dragged out a wretched existence of many years in the city of Velez.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
10
A more wretched existence than that of soldiering in wet weather could hardly be imagined.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
11
At one moment he examined the sweet-pea and mourned with it on a wretched existence.
The Crock of Gold
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As I pondered over this wretched existence, I watched the strange couple walking before me.
Artists' Wives
13
I may say that I live a wretched existence.
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
14
But you have had to drag out a wretched existence in want and danger and darkness.
The Martyr of the Catacombs / A Tale of Ancient Rome
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So thither she longed to be taken-awayfrom the anguish and misery of her wretched existence.
The Emperor of Portugallia
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The Rhenish confederation now began its wretched existence.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
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