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Example sentences for "poor fellow"

  • I used to suspect him of a fancy for you, poor fellow!

  • My poor fellow, there is but one thing for you to do.

  • Well, are you sorry or not sorry for saying such a cruel thing to a poor fellow?

  • His mind, poor fellow, was still all astray.

  • He looked so distressed, poor fellow--so painfully anxious to interfere, without exactly knowing how.

  • He had counted confidently on my taking his side--it was pitiable to see him, poor fellow!

  • He did so dislike the notion of second marriages, poor fellow.

  • Oh, I don't fancy he had any nursing, poor fellow!

  • No, no,--he has enough to bear, poor fellow!

  • Can I do anything more for you, my poor fellow?

  • When it was all over, we were standing beside Arthur, who, poor fellow, was speaking of his part in the operation where his blood had been transfused to his Lucy's veins.

  • He, poor fellow, must have one hour that will make the very face of heaven grow black to him, then we can act for good all round and send him peace.

  • We are hedged in with difficulties, all of us, my poor fellow, but, please God, we shall come through them all right.

  • He seemed quite certain of him, poor fellow!

  • You will consider his bringing-up in this place, and will not judge him hardly, poor fellow, I know!

  • And when did you last hear from or about my poor fellow?

  • My poor fellow is of such a restless disposition, and has been so used to roving about, and to being inconstant and popular among all manner of people, that it's the greatest comfort in life.

  • These nobles think nothing of a poor fellow's time.

  • Poor fellow, in his hard life he had been often driven to this manoeuvre.

  • They will not let a poor fellow like me take to any honest trade.

  • There is a pretty letter to send to a poor fellow so far from home.

  • Poor fellow, he was sorry to part with me--though I was a stranger to him when his memory first came back.

  • I'd poor fellow him, believe ME, if I was Kate Sterns.

  • It must be very strange for him, poor fellow.

  • But he told me something that made me glad for him, poor fellow.

  • How could he help getting the mumps, poor fellow?

  • One can't be cross with him, poor fellow.

  • Nothing to do with Granet, poor fellow," the Admiral continued.

  • Brings things home to you when you remember that it was only yesterday he was here, poor fellow!

  • And I shall pester every one of my acquaintances to buy Reardon's books--though it's no use to him, poor fellow.

  • And I said, 'My poor fellow, I will do all that you have asked of me.

  • Poor fellow, yet the omens were good for him when he left me.

  • Poor fellow, he looks as if he had been some great man, but the gods give sorrow to whom they will--even to kings if it so pleases them.

  • Calypso then went close up to him said: "My poor fellow, you shall not stay here grieving and fretting your life out any longer.

  • A light hand touched his shoulder, and a woman's kind voice said: "Poor fellow, poor fellow!

  • The Eletto nodded assent with tearful eyes, and when she again gently repeated in a tone of sincere sympathy, her "poor fellow!

  • Poor fellow, he is always disposed to do his best; but he is not gifted.

  • And whether he's alive or dead, poor fellow, Heaven above us only knows!

  • Poor fellow, he never recovered that day on the hills!

  • I have seen a poor fellow gnawing a stick for hunger!

  • If Lucien has punished himself by death, we can wait so long as father lives; and if Lucien is still living, poor fellow, he will learn to adapt himself to our narrow ways.

  • Yet he had some brains, poor fellow, and he was ambitious, too.

  • Poor fellow, he must have suffered cruelly if he has been loved as he says!

  • Your brother, poor fellow, is in desperate straits," David told her.

  • And Natata's chief hero on earth is not to be named a poor fellow,' said he, after a negative of the head on a subject they neither of them liked to touch.

  • He answered: 'Dartrey is--yes, poor fellow!

  • But why did you say "poor fellow" of Dartrey Fenellan?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor fellow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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