"Misery" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the words, and then we saw a dark smile upon the face of the cold-hearted commissioner, that told how keenly he enjoyed our misery. ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... that the characters, minds, and dispositions of Maria Addolorata and of her aunt, the abbess, were wholly unsuited to one another. And this one fact became a source of life and death, of happiness and misery, of comedy and tragedy, to many individuals, even to ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
... in this simple household: cook, maid-of-all-work, treasurer, dispenser. Her hands received with a respectful tremble these two little 'rouleaux' which represented so much misery ...
— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy
... that which was mere enjoyment, to that which was apparently, though it may be only apparently, sanctioned by the law of God. And so it would carry with it all the disobedience, all the guilt, and all the misery which belongs to the doing of an act altogether wrong; or as St. Paul expresses it, the ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson
... he had swallowed stuck in the jaws of a Wolf. Thereupon, overcome by extreme pain, he began to tempt all and sundry by great rewards to extract the cause of misery. At length, on his taking an oath, a Crane was prevailed on, and, trusting the length of her neck to his throat, she wrought, with danger to herself, a cure for the Wolf. When she demanded the promised reward for this {service}, "You are an ungrateful ...
— The Fables of Phdrus - Literally translated into English prose with notes • Phaedrus
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