`I can't remember who I am,' I said, wretchedly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : a wretched miser. ,a wretched job of sewing. From Dictionary.com.
"Yes -- you are looking wretchedly," said her stepmother. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The people who appeared on the shore were wretchedly poor. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
"But I am a wretchedly bad fisherman, Miss Mackenzie," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
One, with forty-two wretchedly-conceived stanzas, was entitled. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
They shot wretchedly ill; and the position is good, but exposed. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Poggio, one of the many wretchedly poor villages, has two churches. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Poor fellows! they were wretchedly equipped, so far as garments went. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
It was wretchedly cold, and our heaviest wraps seemed thin and light. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Isabel was looking wretchedly ill, but pronounced herself much rested. From Wordnik.com. [Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma] Reference
He had been wretchedly baffled at Bujēya, but hoped for better success at. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
It was wretchedly demoralizing for an army: everybody was wild for plunder. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
He has given me things to put into this wretchedly big belly of mine; and when. From Wordnik.com. [The Aztec Treasure-House] Reference
Very reluctantly I refused the gift, and felt wretchedly hard-hearted in doing so. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
A wretchedly thatched roof, surmounted by a single stone chimney, covered the whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
All this seems like a scene out of a melodrama, but it's wretchedly real for all that. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
"The service was wretchedly conducted; hardly any music, and not a flower to speak of.". From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
How wretchedly inadequate are the little signs which form syllables, words, and phrases. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
How wretchedly everything still was progressing by listening dumbly the day long to you. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
John Peter, son-in-law of Alexander, a horrid blasphemer and persecutor, died wretchedly. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He was gasping painfully for breath, and groaned wretchedly as he recognized his visitor. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference
He appeared at his lodgings shortly before midnight, looking wretchedly ill and exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
'You will understand,' the lady of the house began, 'how wretchedly sorry I am to see you.'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"You agree with me, then, that my voice is wretchedly out of tune?" she said mischievously. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
From much bending over in digging, Robinson's back, unused to severe toil, ached wretchedly. From Wordnik.com. [An American Robinson Crusoe for American Boys and Girls] Reference
After two more fruitless quests I grew by turns insanely jealous and wretchedly self-distrustful. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Something wretchedly fine with the Tory feel of a pewter mug, the pinched bouquet of pickled beets. From Wordnik.com. [To No Avail] Reference
Compare the beautifully foreign set coleoptera, with our wretchedly lame and uneven-sided attempts. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
He lay there, his arms moving feebly until he contrived to raise himself in time to be wretchedly sick. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
All, outwearied, have given up and leapt headlong to the ground, or flung themselves wretchedly into the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
He had thought that no death or sorrow could ever move him again; yet here was his heart aching as wretchedly as ever. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
We could have lived just as happily on half that sum, -- we could have lived just as wretchedly on ten times that sum. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
My father was at the head of a small and wretchedly-built village, whose inhabitants were all, with one exception, wreckers. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
In the character of Ranger, (Suspicious Husband) though he was wretchedly supported by the performers of every character, save. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
The game between Oakdale and Wyndham was in progress, and, wretchedly miserable, Phil Springer sat watching from the bleachers. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
The land forces degenerated into a wretchedly organized army of less than three hundred thousand men, drafted from the lowest classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Headquarters were some distance back, but most wretchedly accommodated in an orchard close to a lonely brick-stack known as Itchin Farm. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
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