miseries

But the short-term miseries of the American flier are a function of our nation's long-term success.

First-Class Airports! Guess Where? 2007

The way to forget the sense of our miseries is to remember the God of our mercies.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

“Lazarus and Dives” shows a man sent to Hell because he enjoyed a very modified Heaven in this life and which suggested that one of the man’s greatest miseries is an ecclesiastical virtue — “Holy Poverty” — represented in the

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Stock exchange firms, "he continued," which take a long-term view of their situation — and whose members recall the miseries of 20 to 25 years ago — should be alert to discourage a resurgence of popular speculative activity.

The Non-Economist's Economist James Grant 2010

Adding to the miseries are the low pay of teachers, who have to walk miles to serve the students 'hunger for quality education.

Rural high schools lag behind in standards 2008

When they face starvation, we remind them that their miseries are their own fault.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Writer, Huffington Post Contributor, and Former BBC Commentator Calls for a Military Coup: 2007

Lord Clyde in his latest days used to recall the miseries of his march to Margate, and declare that the horrid dress gave him more pain than anything he afterwards endured in a life-time of marching.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

M. de Vermondans was not one of those persons who willingly distress themselves about what the poets call the miseries of human life.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

One of their miseries was the lack of place to keep things; all their odds and ends had to be stowed away under the cots -- where one might find clothing, and books, and manuscripts, and a hammock, and an umbrella, and some shoes, and a box of prunes, and a sack of potatoes, and half a ham.

Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

Infuriated, he looked up and perceived that the cause of all his miseries was a weak and cowardly foreigner, a despicable 'Turk.'

The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston S. Churchill 1919