Poor man, if he doesn't speak right, he thinks right, and I understand him all the same.
None but a priest could flatter a poor manabout to die," exclaimed Lucien.
Wants to hear discourse of poor man, that he may learn from it poor man’s little ways and infirmities, and mark them down in one small, little book to serve for fun to Lord Palmerston and the other great gentlefolks in London.
Now and then, the election was very close, and that was the time the poor man came in.
Then, too, they would swindle you with the contract--and how was a poor man to understand anything about a contract?
I would go ower strictly to work with no poor man.
What does a poor man do, who goes out hedging and ditching with a dead child lying in his house?
He never will let Everett know whether he is to regard himself as a rich man or a poor man.
The poor man who is a man of honour (if indeed a poor man can be a man of honour) has a jewel when he has a fair wife, and if she is taken from him, his honour is taken from him and slain.
I had better give you an allowance for housekeeping; and I earnestly beg you to buy things yourself whilst you are a poor man's wife, and pay ready money for everything.
I do my own business; but I like to let a poor man live.
I am behind time: the fact is, just as I was mounting my horse, a poor man came to the gate to consult me.
I've been a poor manall my life--till now," was his eventual remark.
A poor man couldn't lead them any distance, because he could always be killed by the cry that he was filling his pockets.
I tell you God's truth, Lou--sometimes I feel as if I was really happier when I was a poor man.
Dying with such a firm belief, he died rich, and I shall die a poor man.
I only ask you to say nothing about it, as I am a poor man with a family to provide for.
Millionaires are as plentiful as blackberries, and anyone who is not worth more than a hundred thousand florins is considered a poor man.
The argument founded on this occasional good would be as applicable in justifying the counterfeiter and giving circulation to his base coin, on the ground that a spurious dollar had often relieved a poor man's necessities.
Many a poor man's son would have lyen still, And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you; But you at your sick service had a prince.
I sometime lay here in Corioli At a poor man's house; he us'd me kindly.
I humbly thank your Highness And am right glad to catch this good occasion Most throughly to be winnowed where my chaff And corn shall fly asunder; for I know There's none stands under more calumnious tongues Than I myself, poor man.
In two epigrams Leonidas speaks of himself as a poor man, and in another, an epitaph written for himself, says that he led a wandering life and died far from his native Tarentum.
I am a poor man, but living in Freedom's company I turn my face away from wealth the scorner of poverty.
Poor man, he ought to have a living at his time of life.
But Andrew never performed in public as a musician after that night; and now he's dead and gone, poor man, as we all shall be!
The name of course was only fancy, or he might have had a wife or child with a name something like mine, poor man!
You are a poor man, you have worked hard all your life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
