You liar!" she spurted out. "You wretched liar!"

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

I like to help the most wretched people.

It's wretchedly cold.

You look wretched!

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Human beings—human children especially—seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consist only in a capacity to make others wretched.

Begone, wretched spawn of Hell's unholy bowels!

Most wretchedly by far do I go down.

The poor girl had to sleep in the garret, upon a wretched straw bed, while her sisters lay in fine rooms with inlaid floors, upon beds of the very newest fashion, and where they had looking-glasses so large that they might see themselves at their full length.