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Example sentences for "poor fool"

  • If my eyes grew moist, it was for myself, because I'm such a poor fool, that I must remain in debt to you and your brother for the offer of all the good and beautiful things you would fain give me but which I must nevertheless decline.

  • Speak at least, or I shall be forced to believe that you think me not only a poor fool, but a poor sinner.

  • Alas, poor fool, why do I pity him That with his very heart despiseth me?

  • Alas, poor fool, how have they baffl'd thee!

  • Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care.

  • Why, poor fool, has she not mocked you from the first?

  • I had set up an altar to you in my heart, where my soul might worship--poor fool that I was!

  • I'm a poor fool of a gal, but I knaws enough to laugh at the ignorance o' faither an' that fiddle-faaced crowd to the Luke Gospel Chapel.

  • Theer was a man as builded a heydge around a guckoo, thinkin', poor fool, to catch the bird; but her flew off.

  • And I am hither come for sake of a poor Fool that is braver than the bravest--one did jeopardise his foolish life for sake of a maid, wherefore I, Hugo, do give him life.

  • Alas, poor Fool, that, being fool, must needs look and sigh and sigh and look and leave her to the winning of some young Endymion!

  • Ay, I see too well; and yet she swore she loved me, and I, poor fool, I believed her!

  • And but lately she has sent away Dioscorides the physician, because, poor fool!

  • Though why should I judge them, who worshipped that other God myself till no such long time since; and never knew, poor fool, that the Lord's name was Love?

  • And Headley, poor fool, felt as happy as if he had found a gold mine.

  • She has shrieked and sobbed herself into it, poor fool!

  • Poor fool, too dull to ask what thou wast aching to know!

  • Why, 'twould not become a Calvert to drive such a bargain with such a poor fool.

  • And, poor fool that I am, I had pictured to myself how they would read it.

  • Think not of Gifford--poor fool--but think of yourself, oh world!

  • Poor fool, perhaps I shall never write them!

  • There was a golden vision in his head, poor fool, of this beautiful creature sitting beneath his roof for all time, her red lips and wonderful eyes always laughing at him, her silvery voice forever telling him to forget the storm outside.

  • Or pretend that a poor fool with no merit but his love of purity and truth and honor lost his way to paradise, and God gave him an angel for a guide.

  • Mademoiselle--she love a poor fool--or break her pretty heart!

  • My poor fool is more of a man than I thought he was.

  • I am an unlettered man, being but a poor fool, as thou knowest, but I try to do my duty, and every Sunday I go to church in Carlisle city with my betters.

  • I'll warrant you some silly fellow or other, poor fool!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being anxious; level teaspoonful; poor blind; poor brother; poor chap; poor country; poor devil; poor fellows; poor folk; poor fool; poor husband; poor lady; poor little; poor niece; poor peasant; poor people; poor quality; poor soul; poor thing; poor uncle; poor wench; poor whites; poor widow; poor wife; poor wretch; take some