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Example sentences for "poor boy"

  • But still the old man murmured with his broken voice, "My poor boy, my poor boy!

  • My poor boy," he muttered, "tell me that you have forgiven me.

  • Well, my poor boy," he began, "this is a terrible business.

  • He has no relations to stand by him now, poor boy, so we who are his friends must do our best for him.

  • My poor boy," she said to Ned, "he is in the parlor; he has just been asking for you.

  • But, my poor boy," said Ursula tenderly, "how is it all going to end?

  • He had been so proud, poor boy, of the gold insignia across his stomach.

  • You can't help being a man, my poor boy, and thinking manly thoughts of me, a woman.

  • But this is what have broke this camel's back at last; here's a dalled thing to come smiling and smirking in with, and put it across a counter in a poor boy's hand.

  • I wish I was in it--with a gimlet; he should win, poor boy.

  • It's mean enough to rob a man, but to cheat a poor boy out of all he has is a good deal meaner.

  • I wouldn't have come at all if I had had to swindle a poor boy out of his money," said Joe.

  • I wasn't called to do it, for you never did me any service, and you are owing me to-day fifty dollars, which you cheated me out of when I was a poor boy.

  • Be Gorra, poor boy, you mustn't let your spirits down at all at all.

  • My poor boy, there will be many a one whom thou hast wronged only too ready to lie in wait for thee, now thy life is in every man's hand.

  • I took her; of course I was not going to do other men's work for naught; so I would have married her up to my poor boy, if he had but lived.

  • Well, one day Miss Kerr lent me three pennies to give to a poor boy, and I said I would pay her back very soon.

  • A poor boy with a thin pinched face stood upon the step.

  • But he was nothing but a poor boy, very poor, and very helpless and friendless, and people would only laugh at his trouble.

  • My poor boy,' said Miss Anne's gentle voice, and he felt her hand laid softly on his shoulder.

  • Come hither, my poor boy; you shall have a good meal, and something better than the grog to wash it down with.

  • Let me, then, see the room where my poor boy slept.

  • I am a poor boy, and have nothing to lose.

  • It's ridiculous for a poor boy to put on such airs.

  • Her lover, poor boy, was killed in the Crimea.

  • And he--he wouldn't understand, poor boy.

  • He is sure to be frozen, poor boy," she said.

  • He was very fond of me, poor boy, but he liked his way better than my way too often.

  • I was afraid he would be terribly unhappy, poor boy, so soon after the funeral, and Juliet Byrne having refused him, and everything.

  • Anyhow, it certainly would be a very good solution; but it was tactless of him to suggest it with David at the foot of the gallows, poor boy.

  • A nice pink and white baby he was, poor boy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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