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Sentences starting with poor

Poor cat, suppose you had--" "Now I am not going to suppose anything about the cat. [5]
Poor old people--they would fret and worry. [11]
Poor folks must work for themselves, and not for others. [10]
Poor Washington gradually woke up to the fact that he too was an intellectual marvel as well as his gifted sister. [5]
Poor Tom ate with his fingers mainly; but no one smiled at it, or even seemed to observe it. [5]
Poor man!--she said.--And will leave the best room empty! [6]
Poor old Tynie, who would have thought that the world he loved couldn't make that light in his face! [11]
Poor William Wetherell, who was quite overwhelmed by the fact that the great Mr. Duncan had actually read his letters and liked them, could scarcely utter a sensible word. [9]
Poor Aunt Mary, who did not understand that a performance of "Pinafore" could give birth to the unfulfilled longings which result in the creation of high things, spoke to Uncle Tom a week later concerning an astonishing and apparently abnormal access of industry. [9]
Poor soldier he who did not raise his sword, And, touching with his lips the hilt-cross, swear In war or peace the livery to wear Of one that blessed him with her queenly word. [11]

Sentences ending with poor

He was a younger son, and poor. [9]
Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor. [5]
Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor. [11]
On the pilgrimage which he made to Loretto he had distributed more than ten thousand ducats among the poor. [10]
Some of them were altogether too much pleased with the success of the Temperance Society and the Association for the Relief of the Poor. [6]
To-night I am weak, because I am poor. [11]
Equally as difficult was the task of deceiving the Gentiles, for they were as proud as they were poor. [13]
We shall be very poor. [12]
My dead mother used to say that there are always more good things in a poor family which was once rich than in a rich one which was formerly poor. [10]
You could cut up an Arkansas winter into a hundred Sydney winters and have enough left for Arkansas and the poor. [5]

Short sentences using poor

Ah, that poor woman! [5]
But, you poor things! [10]
Poor fellow--poor, brave Tarautas! [10]
Even a poor soldier's. [11]
But the poor Seigneur! [11]
My poor old Rufinus dead! [10]
He pities the poor woman. [11]
Jane Withersteen a poor woman! [13]
Free the prisoners--the poor vauriens! [11]
I pity them poor things. [5]

Sentences containing poor two or more times

We lived among ye, poor as ye are poor, yet rich for that Egypt was no poorer because of us. [11]
They ran forward with woe and dismay in their faces, exclaiming-- "Oh, poor Tom, poor lad! [5]
Poor Boges will very gladly play the go-between; the poor despised Boges wishes you so well--the humble Boges will be so sorry when he sees the proud palm-tree from Sais cut down. [10]
The crowd massed themselves against the boiler-deck railings, leaning over and staring into the gloom; and every faint and fainter cry wrung from them such words as, 'Ah, poor fellow, poor fellow! [5]
Poor thing, many's the time I made myself go up to the little room that used to be hers and get out her poor old scrap-book and read in it when her pictures had been aggravating me and I had soured on her a little. [5]
Poor people live so near to misfortune all the time--I mean poor people like Jim, Osterhaut, and Jowett--that changes of fortune are just natural things to them. [11]
Poor old Uncle Silas--why, it's pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way--so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother. [5]
If you are poor, let us be poor together; but let me be with you, do let me be with you; do not let me see such change and not know why, or I shall break my heart and die. [12]
You are a poor vaurien, always a poor vaurien. [11]
And so the poor mother found her lost one, 'greatly blistered,' poor little creature. [5]

More example sentences with the word poor in them

Never had the zealous magistrate appeared so repulsive as to-day, and when he remembered how the crafty man had outwitted poor Father Anselm in his presence, he felt as if he had himself committed an unworthy deed. [10]
You had only your sword and my poor fortune and me then--that is all; but you were a man. [11]
What happened to your poor father? [10]
The honeysuckle in your garden needs a support, that it may grow and put forth flowers; let these poor songs be the espalier around which your memory of the absent one can twine its tendrils and cling lovingly. [10]
You cannot imagine!--Does your foot hurt you very much, poor dear? [10]
Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck. [5]
Of course the young schoolmaster will come, and that poor tired-out looking Helen, if only to get out of sight of those horrid Peckham wretches. [6]
All right,--said the young fellow.--I would n't be hard on the poor little-- The word he used was objectionable in point of significance and of grammar. [6]
I believe in you, Mr. Gridley, as I believe in my Maker and in Father Pemberton,--but, poor man, he's old, and you won't be old these twenty years yet. [6]
Well, I hope you won't come to an early grave like poor Charles,--or at any rate, that you may be prepared. [6]
But see, if you will let a poor man speak his mind, if I were you I'd not impose the command on Mr. [11]
No doubt, as you say, where power is supreme, one can do as one likes and suffer no injury; but we poor magicians are not so situated. [5]
If--if you're poor, you ought to have told me so, and I shouldn't have ordered another dinner gown. [9]
But first, as you have promise just now, you must give up dese poor men, who have fight for what dey tink is right. [11]
Pah, barber, if you do not care what he did to the poor Mathilde, there are other maids in St. [11]
An', Jane Withersteen, you crossed it long ago to ease poor Milly's agony. [13]
The false witness you bore will cost poor Hiram his life: but the merciful Saviour may forgive you at last. [10]
And you thought you and your few superstitions were enough for her.--Ah, poor fool! [11]
I can tell you all that you wish to know, my Master, for, during forty-five years, I devoted my humble services to the sick poor there. [10]
You see, Othman, you all see, worthy men.--Let me atone for what I did to help the poor nuns. [10]
The poor bird yonder is as well qualified to encounter it, and be turned adrift upon its mercies--Hark! [12]
Jason told me yesterday evening that our uncle Alciphron had wooed you for his son Leonax, and was sure of finding a favorable reception from old Semestre and your poor father. [10]
For a whole year I have dissembled to every one save to that poor mad soul Mathilde, who reads my heart in her wild way, to Voban, and to the rough soldier outside your dungeon. [11]
Many a poor wretch of yesterday will go to bed a wealthy man to-day. [10]
Whenever a poor wretch asks you for help, and you feel a doubt as to what result may flow from your benevolence, give yourself the benefit of the doubt and kill the applicant. [5]
Even then I wouldn't believe it of him, that he'd take poor people's money that way when he had more than he knew what to do with. [9]
Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
The poor creature would disappear in the water in terror; but he must breathe, and out would come his nose again, nearer the dog each time. [4]
I said he would be useful to work the weather, and attend to small matters like that, and I would give him a lift now and then when his poor little parlor-magic soured on him. [5]
He makes, at worst, a poor anarchist, though he is a good revolutionist; and the French colonials had never been divorced from monarchical France. [11]
His clothes are worn threadbare; and he looks as thin and poor as a Methodist minister in a stony town at home, on three hundred a year. [4]
For in whatever world I may find myself, I hope I shall always love our poor little spheroid, so long my home, which some kind angel may point out to me as a gilded globule swimming in the sunlight far away. [6]
Nothing in this world can save it from being a shabby, poor disgusting performance. [5]
Not that my work was poor, but I knew that it might have been better. [9]
I think devil's work has been done last night upon those innocent poor people. [5]
Grafton had a word and a smile for every one about the old place, but little else, being, as he said, but a younger son and a poor man. [9]
Unfortunately, yonder poor woman's third day will end tomorrow. [10]
Kit's mother, poor woman, is waiting at the grate below stairs, accompanied by Barbara's mother (who, honest soul! [12]
You poor, dear woman, how you loved flowers, and no one has brought you even one! [10]
A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
He learnt everything without any trouble and at the same time worked as hard as a poor man's son. [10]
I was angry with you, to be sure, because--but when I spoke I really and truly did not think of you, but only of poor Paula. [10]
He had been with Lyon at Wilson's Creek, and he had a sad story to tell of how he found poor Richter, lying stark on that bloody field, with a smile of peace upon his face. [9]
He was faint with lonely vigils; he was visibly carrying the load of the poor and the despised. [4]
Then he said with feeling-- "I'm so glad; so glad on Sally's account, poor thing. [5]
Oh, don't trifle with a poor wreck like me. [5]
To drop in with a poor little moral at the fag-end of such a gorgeous massacre was like following the expiring sun with a candle and hope to attract the world's attention to it. [5]
He got out, with a poor attempt at a swagger, without his customary protestations of duty and humble offers of service. [9]
At last Sir Wissenschaft, a poor and obscure knight, out of a far country, arrived to do battle with the monster. [5]
And it was wise, for, had you seen him, it would have broken your poor mother heart to give him up. [10]
But He has willed that His rich shall help His poor, and you have turned away from me, your brother, in my need, and He will remember this, and you will lose by it. [5]
Soon his delusion will pass away and be forgotten, and his poor mind will be whole again. [5]
Colonel, poor Laura will never get any benefit from our bill. [5]
The poor thing will have a hard time at her employer's. [10]
You poor souls will have a bad time now, for the sun of my life has lost its light and the trees by the way-side have lost their verdure. [10]
You, poor Gibbus, will find your labors bitter to-day. [10]
A poor soldier's wife, to whom she had been kind, was watching beside the corpse, at whose head a singly brand burned with a smoky, yellow light. [10]
Infest the poor widow; her lord's effects will be void. [5]
Inform the poor widow her lad's efforts will be vain. [5]
Are there passages whose English is not poor and thin and commonplace, but is of a quality above that? [5]
For the poor whom they daily threaten to deprive of their bread-winner? [10]
Never in his whole life had he felt so poor as with this devil's money. [10]
The poor relation who was staying at the house would insist on Helen's remaining a few days: Old Sophy was in such a condition, that it kept her in continual anxiety, and there were many cares which Helen could take off from her. [6]
The unassuming man, who on the journey had associated as familiarly with the poor invalids he had picked up by the wayside, the tavern-keepers, and soldiers of his escort, as if he were one of themselves, now seemed a very different person. [10]
The poor woman, who lay there in convulsions, was his daughter-in-law Setchem. [10]
One poor devil who had waddled (failed) in Change Alley had collected under his mattress the letters of Junius, then selling the Public Advertiser as few publications had ever sold before. [9]
One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: "Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once. [5]
The poor woman, who had no cause to doubt her son, but every reason for relying on his honesty and truth, was staggered, notwithstanding, by his not having advanced one word in his defence. [12]
A poor rascal who had many mouths to fill, and was no more than two fingers of his master's hand. [10]
These poor folk who had had nothing of the world but what they earned, they would never hang on any prince's favours. [11]
A poor rope-dancer, who had been robbed by a thief in the crowd, of the little tin box containing he pennies he had collected, was running about, ringing his hands and looking for the watchman. [10]
The, stout woman, who had been looking on with that intensity of sympathy of which the poor are capable, began waving gently the palm-leaf fan. [9]
The worthy doctor, who had baptized both my mother and father, died suddenly at Carvel Hall the spring following, of a cold contracted while visiting a poor man who dwelt across the river. [9]
The very poor, who are apt to be immoral. [6]
And whereas I, who am but a poor and simple serving man, have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid, no less is to be looked for in my gracious master, who is rich and of noble birth. [10]
And all this while the poor lie in London streets upon pallets of straw, or else in the mire and dirt, and die like dogs! [4]
And the stock which you sold to poor Garvin was so hopelessly watered that it never could have been anything but worthless. [9]
In Philip's story, which was very slowly maturing, the heroine fell in love with a young man simply for himself, and regardless of the fact that he was poor and had his career to make. [4]
The room in which Kit sat himself down, in this condition, was an extremely poor and homely place, but with that air of comfort about it, nevertheless, which--or the spot must be a wretched one indeed--cleanliness and order can always impart in some degree. [12]
The poor medicaments which Angelique brings avail not; these soothing hands and healing tones, they pass through clouds of the middle place between heaven and earth to Antoine. [11]
The velvet pall wherewith his parents covered the bier of their beloved and firstborn son was so costly, that the price would easily have fed a poor household for years. [10]
Yes, that is where we got him--stretched on the wain, going to his death, poor chap, and nobody to say a good word for him. [5]
She sought every where for him whose eyes had used to look tenderly into hers out of this poor skull, but she could not find him. [5]
By and by, whenever poor Yates saw him coming, he would turn and fly, and drag his company with him, if he had company; but it was of no use; his debtor would run him down and corner him. [5]
Oh, indeed yes; when you talk about your poor Roman and Egyptian day-before-yesterday antiquities, you should choose a time when the hoary Shadow Face of the Jungfrau is not by. [5]
What usually happens when a poor fellow is put in the pillory for some little offense that didn't amount to anything in the world? [5]
I don't know what they'll say when we tell them, poor things. [8]
He knew now what it means to live bereft of light, and, he added in a low tone, to be also poor and unable to earn his daily bread. [10]
Grape-skins, that is what I am--but you need not look at me so pitifully; I was grapes once, and poor and despised as I am now, no one can take from me what I have had and have been. [10]
I don't see what he wants to die for, after he's taken so much trouble to live in such poor accommodations as that crooked body of his. [6]
It is strange what an uncommonly poor lot of voices there is, even among good people. [4]
Poor old Hannah wetted the parched lips and softly stroked the hot brow, murmuring endearing and pitying words, and thanking the Father of all that the mother was happy and did not know. [5]
But, if I were your wife and you had only property enough for a modest competence, you would scarcely fare better, through my fault, than my poor father. [10]
And if that were to happen, if that--O father, father, only think of blind Helios and poor Berenice! [10]
When the Fosters were poor, they could have been trusted with untold candles. [5]
If only they were less honest in a world of rogues, poor moles! [11]
And yet these were kindly dispensations, for they at least enabled the poor things to rise from the dead now and then, and look upon life when a steamboat went by. [5]
The public buildings were heavily draped, and even the homes of the very poor bore outward marks of grief at the loss of their friend and fellow-townsman. [6]
The poor creatures were beaming with complacency and wholly unconscious of any absurdity in their appearance. [5]

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