Wretches

And as I looked down upon the poor wretches from the break of the poop, standing there in the high place, the vision of my kind down all its mad, violent, and masterful past was strong upon me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They hurried forward, with yells of defiance; but the strength of the garrison, awakened by the flying wretches from the defeat, turned out all its power, and with De Valence at their head, pouring on Kirkpatrick's men, would have overpowered them had not Wallace and his sixty heroes, with desperate determination, cut a passage to them through the closing ranks. ❋ Unknown (1875)

They called them out by a sort of roll of their nations, one after another, much in the manner in which they called wretches out of their prison to the guillotine. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

“They’ll be here in a minute,” he was told, and sure enough, a bus rolled up loaded with wretches from the local prison. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All people are miserable wretches, that is the lot of man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I really think the only thing which kept him from killing a few of the wretches was the fear that he might by some chance include the thief in the number, and thus destroy all hope of getting back the stolen gems. ❋ Sargent Kayme (N/A)

The wretches were the 8000 Samnite prisoners he had taken at the battle of Præneste, and brought to be killed in the Campus Martius; and with these shocking sounds to mark that he was in earnest, the purple-faced general told the trembling ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

Adding to levity, we frequently sang hymns where we referred to ourselves as "wretches" or "worms." ❋ Unknown (2009)

As reporters we should revel in our newly revived role as society's "wretches", the yapping riff-raff who constantly annoy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus God punished those monstrous "wretches," But the civil authorities of New ❋ David Masson (1864)

All other Mahomedans including the occupational groups and all converts of lower ranks, are known by the contemptuous terms, 'Ajlaf,' 'wretches' or 'mean people'; they are also called Kamina or Itar; base or Rasil, a corruption of Rizal, 'worthless; In some places a third class, called Arzal or' lowest of all, 'is added. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is perhaps why the ink-stained wretches and blow-dried mannequins of the print and broadcast channels were aghast when the president called on a blogger for the Huffington Post at his press conference yesterday. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If this little contretemps proves anything, it's that these reporters, contrary to the cynical and skeptical image they like to put out there as hard-bitten ink-stained wretches, are stuck in the sycophancy mode for an administration that left office two months ago and stopped earning the right to scare the crap out of people with their boogedy-boogedy stories about terrorism and 9/11 long before then. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nosheen IqbalFamiliar to many as the teacher who towers over the wretches of The Inbetweeners and bears an uncanny resemblance to Rik Mayall, Greg Davies returns to his native Shropshire. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dylan is in Burkina Faso, teaching local wretches how to make designer T-shirts out of organic mangoes. ❋ Joe Queenan (2011)

Thing was, I'd been just like these wretches once. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the meantime, Obama will go on to lead the UN to try to make the whole world "equal" in his eyes, which means we will all be poor, enslaved wretches thinking back to what once WAS in the US before the blacks and stupid college age people thought Hope and Change sounded like a good idea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So now, the real authors of the most influential political books of the post World War II era, Sorenson and Bozell, have joined the putative authors of those books, Kennedy and Goldwater, in whatever heavenly reward awaits the ink-stained wretches of this world. ❋ Unknown (2010)