He was more delighted with the most paultry packet, than with the best patient, and the highest joy he was capable of, he received from having a piece of news in his possession an hour or two sooner than any other person in the town.
A paultry wretch he had, half-starv'd, That him in place of Zany serv'd.
Tis not those paultry counterfeit 55 French stones, which in our eyes you set, But our right diamonds, that inspire And set your am'rous hearts on fire.
Sure," cries Miss Matthews, "she could not be such a paultry pilferer.
Slipslop returned, "Some people kept no servants to converse with; for her part, she thanked Heaven she lived in a family where there were a great many, and had more under her own command than any paultry little gentlewoman in the kingdom.
The silver-smiths make nothing but spoons, forks, paultry rings, and crosses for the necks of the women.
Did not what's his name, one of the Agamemnons, fight with that paultry rascal Paris?
This is but a paultry sum to what the last was; and I do assure you there is nothing else against you in the office.
Thus Heaven is debas'd into an Amour, and Providence brought in to direct thePaultry concerns of the Stage!
Now do's this paultry Behaviour agree with the Heathen Theology, with the Common Opinion concerning Bacchus and Hercules?
But the greatest grievance is, a paultry quack, that takes up my calling just under my nose, and in his printed directions with N.
The few inclosures they have consist of paultry walls of loose stones gathered from the fields, which indeed they cover, as if they had been scattered on purpose.
William, they are paultry daubings, mostly by the same hand, painted either from the imagination, or porters hired to sit for the purpose.
Does not your gratitude suggest a warmer recompence than giving him a paultry income?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paultry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
