miseries
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Seventy pages of footnotes attest to the research he invested in “WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
The practice was first promoted in 1787, by a group of reformers called the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2015
Last week Jacques Callot's 18 etchings on The Miseries and Misfortunes of War were on display in Frankfurt, leading off an exhibition that bore the single-word title "Krieg."
From Time Magazine Archive
To tell me of our Numbers, when they only serve to multiply our Wretchedness and Miseries: Does this prove us on the mending Hand, as you term it?
From A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 by Anonymous
To despond, I thought, would be mistrusting the Bounty of our Creator, and might be the ready way to plunge me into the Miseries Men naturally apprehend in my Circumstances.
From A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country by Brunt, Captain Samuel
