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I became disgusted at being so preoccupied with the state of my own miserable soul.

Cambodia's chief of state, who has been accused of harboring Communist marauders and otherwise making life miserable for neighboring South Viet Nam and Thailand, insists he would be very unhappy if communism established its power in Southeast Asia.

The miserable people of China, the largest cast ever conscripted to enact an ideological passion play, cannot themselves resist overtly.

but the letter went on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been miserable at his refusal, and finally he had relented -- and now how happy she was, how expectant!!

We were miserable.

They were both discouraged, disgusted and miserable.

A word should be said for Gary Morgan, a Broadway youngster who, as the adopted son, makes life miserable for nearly everybody and Larkin in particular.

It dawns on you that instead of a lump to fill the seat across the bridge table from you, he was a man, and that because Gratt Shafer was making you miserable, you were passing it down to him, to Gratt Shafer's substitute, that other guy.

The moment I walked in, the whole miserable feeling of the day seemed to focus on the woman in the bed.

I was just miserable.

She was even more miserable than me.

Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.

`` You're having a miserable time, aren't you??

" Wretch " also represents a period in Newton's life when he saw himself outcast and miserable, as he was when he was enslaved in Sierra Leone ; his own arrogance was matched by how far he had fallen in his life.

The city suffered extreme overcrowding and deplorable sanitary conditions up to 1875 when the medieval fortifications were finally abandoned as a limit to building operations and new, less miserable quarters were built in the eastern part of the city, where drainage of waste liquids was easiest.

The latter includes El Passionato, Kigmyland, The Republic of Crumbumbo, Skunk Hollow, The Valley of the Shmoon, Planets Pincus Number 2 and 7, and a miserable frozen wasteland known as Lower Slobbovia, a pointedly political satire of backward nations and foreign diplomacy that remains a contemporary reference.

" It was indeed a truly shocking sight to see the miserable remains of this mighty army ," wrote Captain Drake, "… reduced to a handful.

Walsh doubted his abilities to turn around such a miserable situation — but earlier in 1979, Walsh drafted quarterback Joe Montana from Notre Dame in the third round.

At such a moment, he continued indignantly, one was bound to recall the funeral of Pushkin and the Tsar's courtiers -- their miserable hypocrisy and false pride.

I was miserable — I just didn't have the extra energy to be happy.

Costa Rica was described as " the poorest and most miserable Spanish colony in all America " by a Spanish governor in 1719.

Acting in a situation without first informing oneself of the circumstances of the situation can lead to even the most well-intended actions yielding miserable consequences.

He wrote that " whether a Christian may not employ this Medicine ( let the matter of it be what it will ) and humbly give Thanks to God ’ s good Providence in discovering of it to a miserable World ; and humbly look up to His Good Providence ( as we do in the use of any other Medicine ) It may seem strange, that any wise Christian cannot answer it.

Dijkstra described Mathematics Inc. as " the most exciting and most miserable business ever conceived ".

It was because of Eusebius that " On the whole, Constantine and his successors made life pretty miserable for Church leaders committed to the Nicene decision and its Trinitarian formula.