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Example sentences for "poor chap"

  • He's gone too, poor chap," says some one.

  • He looks dreadfully ill, poor chap; what's wrong with him?

  • Relieve his anxiety, poor chap, to have some one to talk about it to.

  • A poor chap I used to know in my young days, when I was in the provinces, made it up for me.

  • Don't 'ee think we'd better go arter he, poor chap?

  • Give him the lot, poor chap," cried the old Captain; but Nellie did not need this admonition, being in the very act of handing over the parcel of sandwiches to Dick even while the old sailor spoke.

  • Poor chap, I'm afraid he has lost his head, the same as the vessel has hers!

  • He's taking a little walk for the benefit of his health, poor chap.

  • Poor chap, to find out that the gold story was all a hatch-up, and that he had given up the best years of his life in a great hunt after a yellow nothing.

  • This one's crawled out, poor chap, but it's only to die.

  • I could have done this for the poor chap.

  • He would have quit long before, poor chap.

  • Poor chap, he had his black spots, sure enough.

  • Poor chap, he went all to pieces for a minute or two and, holding her fingers, kissed them over and over again.

  • Yes, poor chap, was in the ranks--and no man can escape the barrack-room taint when he has once lived in it.

  • He would lie before the door and watch, sir, he simply would; and God have mercy on him, poor chap; he was faithful to the last!

  • It might as well have took Red Hamish, too, poor chap, for he was hurt cruel bad, and he only lived a couple of days afterward.

  • Kept 'em in a belt he wore and had 'em on him when the Belle Burgoyne went down and I managed to drag him on to the reef, poor chap.

  • I'm thinking, poor chap, he's got summat to answer for anyway.

  • Then we’d better go right along, or those bounders will have buried the poor chap.

  • My father was a perfect devil for sport, poor chap.

  • She made his life miserable, poor chap, by always enjoining economy upon him, and bothering him about practical things.

  • Poor chap, he'd be mighty able if he weren't crazy!

  • But how far life will be worth living, largely depends upon what can be done for him, poor chap, during the next few months.

  • All the world seemed to have sent him letters of sympathy, poor chap.

  • And now, poor chap, he can't see them himself.

  • See, the boat bumped that time, and he got a nasty knock, poor chap!

  • He looks like a dead-beat, poor chap, and what on earth shall I do with him?

  • Time hangs very heavy on his hands, poor chap.

  • But her father was always vague like that about everything, and he always said "poor chap" about every man and "poor creature" about every woman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    comparatively recent; ground cloves; longer loved; making gold; often repeated; poor body; poor devil; poor folk; poor folks; poor girl; poor husband; poor land; poor little; poor mamma; poor old; poor peasant; poor priests; poor quality; poor sister; poor souls; poor uncle; poor white; poor whites; poor widow; poor young; poorly developed