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Example sentences for "poor dears"

  • But your father and mother have been kind true friends to me, and you surely can understand that I can feel sadly grieved for their troubles, and indeed for all of you, my poor dears," and her voice broke.

  • Your Mamma is going to tell you herself, and I can only beg you, my poor dears, to think of her before yourselves and to be of comfort to her.

  • Poor dears--I hope we may be able to check this selfishness and want of consideration for others--it may be more owing to want of thought than to any deeper cause.

  • They've done me the honour to elect me and I shall never say a word that's not civil about them, poor dears.

  • What I want to say now is only one thing: that it's not in the least true that because my life pitches me in every direction and mixes me up with all sorts of people--or rather with one sort mainly, poor dears!

  • They don't like going at all, poor dears.

  • Then it is an enormous relief that Katherine still clings to the boys, poor dears!

  • They were awfully disappointed, poor dears; but it is better you should come down and see them.

  • But it wasn't their loss, poor dears, which brought me over.

  • Things we picked up during our various incarnations; things new souls haven't had time to collect, poor dears.

  • Poor dears, what a pity they couldn't have waited till now to be born, when, instead of burning or drowning them, people would have paid them to tell nice things about the past and predict lovers for the future!

  • Poor dears" had their instant claim upon her.

  • Her mother and sister were "poor dears" and she had suffered from them now during many years.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    did his; flannel shirt; home for; poor body; poor boy; poor child; poor creature; poor fellow; poor folks; poor friend; poor husband; poor little; poor mother; poor papa; poor parents; poor people; poor place; poor priests; poor souls; poor wench; poor widow; poor wife; poor wretch; poorest countries; went down; wrote several