Poor old Axworthy is murdered, and I'm terribly afraid Leonard has met with some foul play.
Poor old Ward, I never was more shocked; what is become of the young ones?
Poor old man," said George feelingly; "no doubt the quick succession of emotions through which he has lately passed has overcome him for the time.
In fact, I come to Ouzelford in the faint hope of discovering there a poor old friend of mine, of whom I have long been in search.
Let me only find my poor old friend, my benefactor I may call him, and I hope to persuade him, if not to return to the home that waits him, at least to be my guest, or put himself under my care.
It was too dry for Juley, poor old soul, she had no palate.
Lindsay, with his vestments and his views on obedience, must have been a Tartar as a father, poor old chap!
The merits of poor old Sprengel, so long overlooked, are now fully recognised many years after his death.
You saw her with the Campbells, when she was the equal of every body she mixed with, but here she is with a poor old grandmother, who has barely enough to live on.
Poor old Mrs. Bates, civil and humble as usual, looked as if she did not quite understand what was going on.
Never mind, Harriet, I shall not be a poor old maid; and it is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public!
Yet she was only a poor old broken-down woman in a Wiltshire village, held fast in her chair by a hopeless infirmity.
But I could not stay longer in that village of old unhappy memories and of quiet, happy, uninteresting lives that leave no memory, so after waiting two more days I forced myself to say good-bye to my poor old landlady.
A poor old derelict--the amen to a life which, like most lives, had once been flush with promise.
Poor old pa' so like to have a grandchild 'e was allowed to carry round.
As a rule, they made no attempt to talk to one another, or to look at the visitor, or to look at anything, but sat silently working their mouths, like a sort of poor old Cows.
It was but a poor old man, passing along the street under one of the new buildings, on whom a stone had fallen, and who had tumbled dead.
It might be possible to stave death off for a time if a way could be found of setting up a reaction in the lower extremities; but if the symptoms do not abate by to-morrow evening, it will be all over with him, poor old fellow!
Poor old boy, poor old Fido," he said, in a low voice, stroking his head.
He threw his arms round them, saying, "Poor old Blackie!
My poor old Uncle; he was so good to me in boyhood, in those old days, when I blooded Cousin George's nose!
To Osnabruck, where my poor old Brother, Bishop as they call him, once a little Boy that trotted at my knee with blithe face, will have some human pity on me!
My poor old Mother, oh, my Mother, that so loved me always, and would have given her own life to shelter mine!
The new grain was waving in the fields; the birds singing in the trees and in the air; and every thing seemed glad, save a poor old man, who came tottering out of the woods, with a heavy bundle of sticks on his shoulders.
Poor old man," said Flemming; "He is as much a ruin as the church we are entering.
There was once a poor old woman in Andernach whose name was Frau Martha, and she lived all alone in a house by herself, and loved all the Saints and the blessed Virgin, and was as good as an angel, and sold pies down by the Rheinkrahn.
Bob Pillin walked beside him, thinking: 'Poor old josser, he is gettin' a back number!
Shutting the door behind him, a clerk said: "Poor old chairman!
The girl answered softly: "Poor old man, let um have his pleasure.
Poor old Anne, you must know she had a turn for finery, only she never knew how to gratify it.
But I've got a hundred a year, charged on poor old Ronnisglen's estate,' said Annaple.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor old" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
