They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it.

Believe this: when she first came to me, I meant to save her from misery like my own.

How could there be rescue from such total misery and death?

The other girls looked up, from their own misery, puzzled, watching me.

Then no one would presume to question his right to make money from human misery.

Was it wrong to release a fellow human being from his misery?

How does one get from misery to poverty in dignity?

Nothing from the desperation and misery that the country has been forced to live through.

It also appears to have saved her from misery or worse.

A raise, he added, to $1.21 an hour would at least allow them to go from "misery to poverty."