What is "miserable"

Usage examples of "miserable".

The Culture - the real Culture, the wily ones, not these semi-mystical Elenchers with their miserable hankering to be somebody else - had been known to give whole Affronter fleets the run-around for several months with not dissimilar enticements and subterfuges, keeping them occupied, seemingly on the track of some wildly promising prey which turned out to be nothing at all, or a Culture ship with some ridiculous but earnestly argued excuse, while the Culture or one of its snivelling client species got on - or away - with something else somewhere else, spoiling rightful Affronter fun.

They went to their regular meals in the English ship, and pretty soon they were nibbling again--nibbling, appetiteless, disgusted with the food, moody, miserable, half hungry, their outraged stomachs cursing and swearing and whining and supplicating all day long.

But her last forlorn glance down from the head of the ramp had been of Gold Ambon standing there in the middle of the black-and-white diamonds of the rotunda, looking up at her with miserable reproachful eyes.

By degrees bulrushes of enormous growth become visible, and a few more miles of mud brought us within sight of a cluster of huts called the Balize, by far the most miserable station that I ever saw made the dwelling of man, but I was told that many families of pilots and fishermen lived there.

It did no good to brangle with relatives who could so easily make her life miserable.

Der ewige Katarrh und die Kraempfe in Brust und Unterleib mochten es noetig machen, und schlechtes Wetter war ueber Jena, seit Wochen, seit Wochen, das war richtig, ein miserables und hassenswertes Wetter, das man in allen Nerven spuerte, wuest, finster und kalt, und der Dezemberwind heulte im Ofenrohr, verwahrlost und gottverlassen, dass es klang nach naechtiger Heide im Sturm und Irrsal und heillosem Gram der Seele.

It would take more than Sir Godber Evans and the miserable Bursar to change things.

The I understanding the cause of his miserable estate, sayd unto him, In faith thou art worthy to sustaine the most extreame misery and calamity, which hast defiled and maculated thyne owne body, forsaken thy wife traitorously, and dishonoured thy children, parents, and friends, for the love of a vile harlot and old strumpet.

In truth, his mind had been fully occupied with matters far more significant than the miserable slaying of some fornicating malefactor in a Troidmallos alley.

It is said that the Margravine would give herself up to debauchery and exceedingly fast living for several months at a time, and then retire to this miserable wooden den and spend a few months in repenting and getting ready for another good time.

Si vous voulez que votre fille soit prochainement veuve avec un ou deux enfants qui seront les miserables heritiers de leur pere pour la sante, faites ce mariage qui, pour vous, maintenant avertie, serait un crime.

Miss Hamilton was completely silent, and to Martyn, humiliated and miserable, the necessary intimacies of her work were particularly mortifying.

It was as if they were all in possession of some secret that they were reluctant to share with her and Jenny was miserable, intercepting strange, meaningful glances between Melia and Ned and half-hearing conversations among the three of them, which, in her presence, broke off abruptly and were continued when she left them.

It would have been comic were it not all so miserable, the night so ghastly and full of blood and fire and if his stupidly earnest face hadnt looked so much like Heryn Millward s, the young guard now lying dead in a puddle of his own blood in Anissas chamber.

Lady Hamilton, formed an affection for the court, to whose misgovernment the miserable condition of the country was so greatly to be imputed.