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1  On the contrary, try as he would, Jurgis could not help being made miserable by his conscience.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
2  She was sick and miserable, and often she would barely have strength enough to drag herself home.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
3  Who there was poorer and more miserable than the Slovaks, Grandmother Majauszkiene had no idea, but the packers would find them, never fear.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  He was no longer the finest-looking man in the throng, and the bosses no longer made for him; he was thin and haggard, and his clothes were seedy, and he looked miserable.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
5  In low-class places, in the dead of winter, saloon-keepers would often allow one or two forlorn-looking bums who came in covered with snow or soaked with rain to sit by the fire and look miserable to attract custom.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
6  She understood now that the real reason that Miss Henderson hated her was that she was a decent married girl; and she knew that the talebearers and the toadies hated her for the same reason, and were doing their best to make her life miserable.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
7  Beneath the hundred thousand women of the elite are a million middle-class women, miserable because they are not of the elite, and trying to appear of it in public; and beneath them, in turn, are five million farmers' wives reading 'fashion papers' and trimming bonnets, and shop-girls and serving-maids selling themselves into brothels for cheap jewelry and imitation seal-skin robes.'
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31