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Example sentences for "poor parents"

  • He was born at a village a few miles from Bath, of poor parents; and during the greater part of his youth he obtained a living by pursuing the business of a costermonger.

  • The culprit was the daughter of poor parents living at Musselburgh, about five miles from Edinburgh, a place almost entirely inhabited by fishermen and persons employed in the manufacture of salt.

  • It appears that he was the son of poor parents, who lived at Mortram, near Longdale, in Cheshire, and that he was born there, in the year 1759.

  • I have been in disguise, indeed, ever since my good lady your mother took me from my poor parents.

  • But be it as it will, all the use he can make of it will be, that he may be ashamed of his part; I not of mine: for he will see I was resolved to be virtuous, and gloried in the honesty of my poor parents.

  • If all these prizes were abolished, and the funds thus set free used to lessen the price of education at school and in college, I believe that the sons of poor parents would be far more benefited than by the present system.

  • The mere possibility of one of their children being swash-buckler to Mumbo Jumbo on the high Barbary shore has always been a source of heart-breaking to my poor parents.

  • Born at Champagne, in Lorraine, of poor parents, he was first apprenticed to a pastrycook.

  • Robert Thorburn, the Royal Academician, like John Gibson, was born of poor parents.

  • He was the son of poor parents in Picardy, and when a boy was employed to tend sheep.

  • The mere possibility of one of their children being swashbuckler to Mumbo Jumbo on the high Barbary shore has always been a source of heart-breaking to my poor parents.

  • It is said that these scholarships and exhibitions enable the sons of poor parents to enjoy the privilege of the best education in England, from which they would otherwise be debarred by the excessive costliness of our public schools.

  • Thus it is seen that as Rothschild came of poor parents, and was simply a clerk.

  • Barnum, a man born of poor parents at Bethel, Connecticut.

  • This artist, the son of poor parents, was a second mate on board a sailing ship, when his gifts were recognized, and means were furnished him with which to study in Rome.

  • This saint was the daughter of poor parents, near Avila.

  • Saint Ephraem was the son of poor parents of Nisibis, who had confessed Christ before the persecutors, under Diocletian or his successors.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broad smile; fired again; little pony; poor blind; poor chap; poor country; poor devil; poor father; poor fool; poor gentleman; poor girl; poor health; poor lady; poor land; poor lass; poor mother; poor old; poor scholar; poor servant; poor sister; poor wench; poor wife; poor woman; poor young; poorly developed; she wants