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Example sentences for "poor fellows"

  • Poor fellows, they were to be sorely tried; the sun went down, and an easterly wind blew, and not only prevented them from approaching the coast, but again drove them slowly off it.

  • It broke out the other day after we parted company with the Archer, and one after the other my poor fellows died.

  • His followers had amused themselves by painting my poor fellows' faces, and otherwise ill-treating them.

  • Wouldn't it be easier to let down the falls, sir, and run up the boat all standing with the poor fellows in her as they are?

  • Poor fellows; Jackson, too, was the best hand Stokes had below!

  • I would gladly have been among the poor fellows lost; and yet, no.

  • Poor fellows, I would to heaven this had not happened.

  • Poor fellows, with bandaged heads and arms in slings, were met limping and crawling along.

  • I found myself struggling in the waves with my poor fellows around me.

  • They have been arriving sick and wounded for three days--first long strings of ambulances with the sick, but yesterday many with bad and bloody wounds, poor fellows.

  • Well, Mat, I will suspend my letter for the present, and go through the city--I have a couple of poor fellows in the hospital to visit also.

  • They, poor fellows, will come back hot and tired out.

  • A number of poor fellows found a watery grave, rafts being upset in the heavy surf whilst attempting to land--the sea dashing with all its majestic force upon the sandy beach, although we could not see it.

  • These had got so far in advance that they, poor fellows, could not get back until the flag of truce was up.

  • They had, poor fellows, a heavy lot to bear, but it is an abominable falsehood to say that it was aggravated by any needless severity on the part of the English Government.

  • Poor fellows, poor fellows," he said at length: "how many of them I have known!

  • And indeed it was a mournful sight to behold them, where they sat, poor fellows!

  • Soon as the retreat was ordered he paused, and looking round on his fallen men, cried out, "Poor fellows, I envy you!

  • Yes, sir; I think I see all, and it makes me feel very proud to know how brave and contented the men are, poor fellows!

  • Of course not, poor fellows; we must stand by them to the last.

  • There's where I find you scholars have the advantage of us poor fellows, who pick up knowledge as we can.

  • Perhaps our troops were not equal to it; and yet, poor fellows, they did braver things that were utterly useless.

  • It will do both her and a lot of poor fellows a world of good.

  • Many others were wounded and must have had a hard time of it, poor fellows, that hot day.

  • If the villagers therefore find a man waiving this right to oppress them, and offering coin for that which he is entitled to take without payment, they suppose at once that he is actuated by fear (fear of them, poor fellows!

  • Their humility is not at all misplaced, for you see at a glance (poor fellows!

  • They too, poor fellows, evidently began to like me immensely, on account of the hard-heartedness which had enabled me to baffle their scheme.

  • I must not think of rest till I have left no stone unturned for the furtherance of this scheme concerning my poor fellows.

  • It became stirred up with mud but the men, poor fellows, drank it.

  • The Russians alone made it unbearable, poor fellows.

  • The men, poor fellows, are keenly on edge for news.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    find mention; further question; its people; long enough; mince pies; poor aunt; poor blind; poor brother; poor darling; poor dears; poor father; poor folk; poor girl; poor lady; poor land; poor mamma; poor papa; poor relations; poor sister; poor soul; poor wench; poor whites; poor wife; poorly developed; put into; taking part