She died with a comfortable assurance that she was going to a better world, and with a bitter conviction that it would be hard to find one that would offer her a worse lot than being a poor relation in this.
There I found a "poor relation," who made my acquaintance without introduction.
Already the news had gone abroad among the under servants that this was a poor relation.
It mattered nothing to these ill-bred Starkweather girls that the serving people heard how they treated this "poor relation.
If they want to treat me like a poor relation, let them.
At a glance one knows this beautiful denizen of Northern bogs and ditches to be a poor relation of the stately Ethiopian calla lily of our greenhouses.
A poor relationof the stately calla lily one knows Jack to be at a glance, her lovely white robe corresponding to his striped pulpit, her bright yellow spadix to his sleek reverence.
It was my fate for many years to eat the bitter bread of dependence, as one of those despised and insulted domestic annoyances--A Poor Relation.
Robert Moncton had been reconciled to his son, and I was once more regarded as only a poor relation.
I am rich, trust in me, and the world shall never sneer at you as a poor relation.
My dear friend, above all things I want to behave like a gentleman and to be recognized as such,” the visitor began in an excess of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation.
Talk gossip, you are a poor relation, you ought to talk gossip.
Moreover, now that she was the wife of a baronet, Lady Grant was not sure that it reflected creditably upon her to have such a poor relation.
Besides, she had the satisfaction of knowing that this was quite definitely only a visit, and that there was no proposal pending to attach her permanently to the household as a poor relation.
Whatever unkindness came to the surface was inherent in her position as a poor relation.
I am living at present in the family of Sir Alexander Moncton, who has behaved in the most generous manner to his poor relation.
I am but a poor relation, whom few persons would regard with other feelings than those of indifference.
The only stain on his character, it was stated, was the extraordinary manner in which he had disinherited his only son, in order to place a poor relation who had been brought up in his house, in his shoes.
She had never been a poor relation yet, and she did not intend to start being one now.
Her father's brother is only too willing to do anything for her, but she declines to be a poor relation.
He expended several days in this way, but every where there appeared the same undisguised dread of a 'poor relation.
They were not a little delighted to be so easily rid of a 'poor relation,' who might have been a burthen, and a shame; but most of all was rejoiced the Hon.
I did not come here to be treated like a poor relation.
And you must never think, dear, that we regard you as 'a poor relation.
I didn't think that having a poor relation to live with us would be quite so annoying and humiliating.
The fact is, she was a poor relation, and had all her life been passed around from cousin to cousin, each endeavoring to shift the burden as quick as possible.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor relation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
