A few trying months followed, during which we passed alternately from hope to fear, the most distressing feature of this sorrowful time being my poor father's desperate struggle for life.
I mention these deficiencies to explain the extreme dulness of my poor father's existence during his widowhood, a dulness that a lover of books must have a difficulty in imagining.
Many people used to think once of getting my poor father out, but you don't know how hopeless it is.
I should have done you more harm than good, at first; for the prison was so familiar and yet so strange, and it brought back so many remembrances of my poor father, and of you too, that at first it overpowered me.
When the moment came, I inquired after my poor father, our mother, and the circumstances of the family.
Then I raised my eyes, and saw my poor father at a window in the upper storey, with trembling limbs, dragging himself forward on his stick to catch a glimpse of me.
I did not care to inquire how things had been brought to this conclusion; but putting on as cheerful a face as possible, I went to keep my poor father company as usual for a few hours in the evening.
I hope it is not a mere miserable presumption that makes me dare to talk so to poor father.
I have made myself especially kind topoor father and to Martha lest they should perceive how inconvenient it is to have them here, and be pained by it.
Mr. Underhill makes her wear, with her sleeves rolled up, the skirt hid away under a large apron, rubbing away at poor fathertill it seems as if his tired soul would fly out of him.
Did they ever blame the woman who bears my poor father's name for indulging all her passions freely?
I will go and prepare a wedding feast which will be more joyful than the last one was, where I saw that every drop of wine was turned to gall for my poor father.
I implore you with all my heart, ask anything of me, but that I should leave this without once more seeing my poor father, without the sacred memorials of my mother which I keep at home.
I want it to be kept a secret to every one but you, my mother, and Una; but my poor father would he apt to mention it in some fit of grief.
He is gone--my poor father is gone, but I did not kill him--I did not kill him!
So let me have just one little season of rest before you break this to my poor father, and make me afraid to look Sir Noel in the face.
I had been expecting my poor father's death for some time," said Philip gravely.
I shall miss my poor father sadly: but grieving will not bring him back.
But if he did not kill my poor father, I know not who did.
When you know my stepmother as well as I do--but I must talk calmly about her, or you will not understand my reasons for thinking her concerned in the terrible fate of my poor father.
I must remain that time in town to see my lawyer about the estate left by my poor father.
Uncle," said Mabel in a mournful voice and with an expostulatory manner, "my poor fatheris sadly, sadly hurt!
Have I not already promised my poor father to do all you desire?
My poor father is approaching his end, and it were better that he should draw his last breath in peace with the world.
I must now entreat you to do my message, and desire Father Seysen to come hither; for my poor father is, I fear, in extremity.
I will place most of my money in the shares of the Company, and if I sail in their vessels, and they come to misfortune by meeting with my poor father, at least I shall be a common sufferer with the rest.
If," thought he "the Phantom Ship of my poor father appears to others as well as to me, and they are sufferers, my being on board can make no difference.
And my father, Amine, my poor father--his dreadful doom to be eternal!
The matter, I feel confident, is one of life and death to my poor father.
But whether he is the real enemy of my poor father I do not know.
Laurence exclaimed, "like he did my poor father's.
He laid him on it and said to the Talking Cricket: "Tell me, little Cricket, where shall I find a glass of milk for my poor Father?
A poor father and a poorer son, without food and with no roof to cover them," answered the Marionette.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor father" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
