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Example sentences for "poor papa"

  • How he used to fuss round the room at night fixing me just like you--poor papa, Abie--not?

  • Poor papa is sorely vexed, and we do not like to press him.

  • Poor papa thought of his banker's account, or rather of that bank at which there was, so to say, no longer any account.

  • Poor papa is so hipped," she said to herself, "that he thinks that nobody will ever be happy again.

  • There is something in poor papa's will about Uncle Silas--about me.

  • I mean this--I think I was brought there, and that there is poor papa's appeal to me, as plain as if his hand came and wrote it upon the wall.

  • She was looking into the letter in poor papa's handwriting, which she had found addressed to her in his desk, and emphasised the words, I suppose, which she quoted from it.

  • Dear Aunt Adelaide, comfort my poor papa when I am gone.

  • I am afraid he will not come until I am gone, and he will be so sorry; my poor, poor papa!

  • It is so sad to be alone, with nobody to love you; my poor, poor papa!

  • Oh, Aunt Adelaide, comfort my poor papa when I am gone, and he is left all alone!

  • But the wedding was private on account of poor papa.

  • But papa, poor papa, he never knew anything of that, of course.

  • Indeed, I should never have asked him; it would only have been one humiliation more for him, poor papa!

  • I never saw such a pearl except that one of poor papa's, the one he has in his scarf-pin that belonged to that friend of his who died, you know.

  • Poor papa had to send to New Sanderson for meat," whispered Charlotte.

  • Perhaps I shall be less of a burden to poor papa if I am married, but I shall never go far away.

  • He's going to break a lot of hearts,' poor papa used to say.

  • The idea of poor papa trying to arrange it for the night, and yet his efforts were to be preferred to Lena's.

  • Including the servants' clothes," whispered Dorothy, and with a "Poor papa!

  • Throw the handle of a hammer at me, but have pity on my poor papa.

  • Then he asked the Cricket: "Tell me, little Cricket, where can I find a tumbler of milk for my poor papa?

  • If I had been a good little boy, as so many are; if I had remained at home with my poor papa, I should not now be in the midst of the fields and obliged to be the watch-dog to a peasant's house.

  • I would remain willingly if it were not for my poor papa.

  • An accident occurs, and--say good-by to poor Papa!

  • An action then will also lie for you and your Mamma-- And don't forget to bring it--on account of poor Papa.

  • I had a strong feeling of self-reproach in my own mind at having brought such a calamity on poor Papa, when it could have been avoided if I had been a little more careful before going to bed.

  • And the tephilim no what's this they call it poor papa's father had on his door to touch.

  • Told her what Spinoza says in that book of poor papa's.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor papa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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