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Example sentences for "poor friend"

  • Shall I go to that miserable old man, and charge him with his share in the shameful trick which I believe to have been played upon my poor friend?

  • I say that I believe the announcement in the Times to have been a false announcement, and a part of the conspiracy which was carried out by Helen Talboys and Lieutenant Maldon against my poor friend.

  • I cannot doubt your word, my poor friend; and yet it is M.

  • Why did you not tremble for yourself, my poor friend?

  • Let you, my poor friend, do for me what I thought degrading to do myself?

  • Yes, you are right; I am but a poor friend to you.

  • Well, my poor friend," replied Beauchamp, "I expected you.

  • Fournier took his leave, he said privately to Charnock: "My poor friend!

  • Oh, but he was very witty and clever, my poor friend, when he was not swearing at you.

  • My poor friend, I am afraid not," answered Fournier, and Warriner seemed very well pleased with the answer.

  • My poor friend, I observed, was dreadfully confused as my father's eye rested on her.

  • She could not afford to lose all her pupils; and thus it was my poor friend lost a situation upon which she depended to begin her little savings.

  • At that bank, however, all traces of my poor friend's footsteps were lost, and I could only find those of another person going away from it.

  • My poor friend is always the same; he only finds a solace for his sufferings in doing good.

  • Probably I should never act otherwise myself, my poor friend, if I had to acquaint you with the sad event of which I speak to you.

  • He worries me, he is his own executioner, my poor friend!

  • This is nothing, as yet; my poor friend, alas!

  • Lord Jesus, and thank Him for a poor friend.

  • I am still welcome to His house; He knoweth my knock, and letteth in a poor friend.

  • Not even accidental murderers, like my poor friend Le Geyt.

  • I hope to apprehend Fu-Manchu's servant by the methods suggested by my poor friend?

  • I saw nothing of the strange appointments of that subterranean chamber; but face to face with the supreme moment of a lifetime, I was alone with my poor friend--and God.

  • I can recollect you perfectly, and I know that you were always good to my poor friend's daughter.

  • And I laughed at him; I laughed at my poor friend's fears.

  • The last hope of escape has departed with my poor friend.

  • I was afraid that I would be done to death like my poor friend.

  • I was soon joined by the doctor, who assisted me in getting my poor friend to bed; which being done, he most eagerly entreated me to join the company.

  • That was the way with my poor friend, Curran.

  • Ah, my poor friend," replied Monsieur Dalize, "because the father of Albert is here and the father of Paul is far away.

  • In my half sleep I thought that this some one was you, my poor friend; but, alas!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    marked ability; may easily; other metal; poor aunt; poor beggar; poor body; poor boy; poor child; poor country; poor father; poor friend; poor husband; poor little; poor mistress; poor relation; poor servant; poor sinner; poor sinners; poor sister; poor soil; poor soul; poor souls; poor uncle; poor whites; poor wretch; would receive