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Example sentences for "poor gentleman"

  • Perchance he has known naught since that night he fell at my feet--and even so, poor gentleman, he hath a happy fate.

  • Poor gentleman, he hath come in such high spirit, and must ride back heavy of heart.

  • I will not cheat him as weaker women do their husbands; for he pays--poor gentleman--he pays.

  • But I dare say as Mr. May would like it, poor gentleman.

  • I'm very sorry, poor gentleman, I hope it ain't anything serious.

  • God forgive me, I've done him wrong, poor gentleman, if that's true.

  • Poor gentleman, he fell a victim to his own endeavours to attain peace of mind by his austerities!

  • Poor gentleman,' she said, 'if he is pleased, it would be wrong in us to find fault.

  • Poor gentleman, he was so comely, so handsome!

  • Poor gentleman,--for though he was poor, he was the finest and most thorough gentleman I ever saw!

  • He called himself a poor gentleman of Brittany, but that might have been his origin only, he might be something more now.

  • Do you suppose that the Countess of Rochechouart travels with no larger attendance than a poor gentleman of Brittany?

  • From a poor gentleman of Brittany with something of pedigree but little of estate, he had risen to this post which eight out of ten at that table grudged him.

  • Her husband, who was a poor gentleman, found life a very uphill work.

  • Orme= (Victor), a poor gentleman in love with Elsie.

  • Yes, that he did, poor gentleman--your lodger, too?

  • Poor gentleman--though she is kind to him, they say.

  • Poor gentleman," remembering the tender worship in my Lord's kind face; "how can she love him as he loves her?

  • We were always fond of Colman's "Poor Gentleman," and we took great delight in seeing Burton as Doctor Ollapod.

  • I am a poor Gentleman, that have but little but my wits to live on.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broad daylight; might haue; planted early; poor body; poor brother; poor creature; poor darling; poor dear; poor dears; poor fellows; poor fool; poor husband; poor lord; poor man; poor master; poor mistress; poor mother; poor opinion; poor scholar; poor sister; poor soil; poor young; poorest countries; poorly developed; proceeding from; proper size