7 sentences with “miserable”

Now they are no more than miserable skeletons.

The Andrews traveled all over England, performing for a week at each theater and moving from one miserable boarding house to another.

Napoleon was imprisoned on the cold and miserable island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he eventually died in 1821 after writing his memoirs.

Decades later, as a prisoner in a miserable British island prison in the South Atlantic, Napoleon would claim in his memoirs that all he had done was in the name of France and the Revolution.

Last year, friends of hers who did not know of Michele's ancestors complained that one of their sons had married a Jewish woman. They also told him that they had refused to meet their daughter-in-law and were making life miserable for their son.

While the large British population of landless rural labourers and poor peasants had no choice but to seek work in the factories, most French peasants were independent farmers who had no interest in going to the cities to work in miserable conditions.

While the lot of Italian peasants was not significantly worse than that of peasants elsewhere, poor people in the cities had to bear heavy taxes on basic foodstuffs that made it especially miserable to be poor in one of the richest places in Europe at the time.