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  • Later on I was passing Hyde Park with a young boy of fourteen or fifteen, a most wretched-looking youth, gaunt and hollow-eyed and sick.

    CARRYING THE BANNER 2010

  • Not far from where King sat there was an immediate disturbance in the crowd, and a wretched-looking Baluchi was thrust forward at a run, with arms lashed to his sides and a pitiful look of terror on his face.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • The whole back of the plane smelled awful, and there was a group of wretched-looking Slavs seated back there.

    trailer; awp; return to NY; woods N A 2008

  • That wretched-looking hand-tentacle sticking out of its jar seemed to have a sort of limp appeal for lost possibilities; it haunts me still, although, of course it is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them.

    First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

  • My companion said they were pale, wretched-looking and DRESSED QUITE SHABBILY.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • There, about thirty wretched-looking people were already sitting in anxious anticipation, waiting for news on their injured loved-ones.

    How To Kill Your Boyfriend (In Ten Easy Steps) D.V. Bernard 2006

  • There, about thirty wretched-looking people were already sitting in anxious anticipation, waiting for news on their injured loved-ones.

    How To Kill Your Boyfriend (In Ten Easy Steps) D.V. Bernard 2006

  • “With your permission,” said the councillor in purple, paying no attention to the wretched-looking de Angeliis.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • Why in the world would my mother sleep with a wretched-looking creature called Blister?

    Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005

  • Why in the world would my mother sleep with a wretched-looking creature called Blister?

    Finding Dignity J. Marie Darden 2005

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