mis'able

"I'm a poor mis'able dog; I do not understand" from Kipling's Thy Servant a Dog still has the power to make my eyes sting with tears.

Mythical Creature meme intertext 2005

"No, I ain't gwine to be fished out, wid everybody lookin 'at me, in dis mis'able ole linsey-woolsey."

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

"Deary me! it'll be jest like a fortin 'to 'em," she ejaculated at last; "but Miss Selwyn 'll have to take charge of it, or that mis'able Bill Sykes' ll drink it up in no time."

Medoline Selwyn's Work Hattie E. Colter

"Lem me be a mis'able warning to you, EDWIN," says Mr. BUMSTEAD, shedding tears.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 Various

Is he wid you, you is mis'able, an 'is he A.W.O.L. yo' is twice 'at much.

Lady Luck Hugh Wiley

Dat Kipping, he am chief mate -- Lo'd have mercy on us mis'able sinners!

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

You would like him; he has curly hair, and he can whistle any tune you ask for, and -- and -- he's very mis'able we've all gone away from him. '

'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

'' Pears like de colored people at de Norf was mostly a mis'able set, 'he answered: _'can't shum!'

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

"Yas, massa, gwine to bury all dem mis'able free niggas at de Norf."

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

Wal, she quiets down some after that, but she makes Jud as mis'able as a treed coon fer over a week.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various