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The eldest of the latter--a boy--is as frail as his father, while the mother--a woman who, formerly, must have been good looking, and still has a striking aspect in spite of her pallor--goes about in the sorriest of rags.

To crown all, there was to be a donkey-race--that sublimest of all races, conducted on the grand socialistic idea of everybody encouraging everybody else's donkey, and the sorriest donkey winning.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.

On the other hand, they are the sorriest archers that I have ever seen, and cannot so much as aim with the arbalest, to say nought of the long-bow.

The Superman, I have at heart; THAT is the first and only thing to me--and NOT man: not the neighbour, not the poorest, not the sorriest, not the best.--

They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful.

But, when my burger arrived, it was the sorriest thing I have ever seen.

With Houghton's spot-kick saved, the Lionesses' campaign came to the sorriest of endings.

But the sorriest sight of all was Merson, crying in a taxi, on his way to have a heart-to-heart after succumbing to the gambling demons that have dogged him since he was 16.

Vann Woodward's characterization of Grant's presidency as "America's sorriest Administration" (1), even if he does not necessarily concur with Wilentz that Grant ranks among the top American presidents.

Nothing sums up the current impasse at Newcastle United better: the sorry conclusion of a game of brinkmanship that has turned this season into the sorriest of struggles and appears close to breaking the resolve of Rafa Benitez, the gar landed managerial genius who offered the club the chance to tun nel out of the mediocrity of the last few years.