Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "poor soul"

  • Truly that's the cause; And therefore 'tis, poor soul, she sorrows thus.

  • So then, it seems, for very love, poor soul, You shut the door in 's teeth.

  • Poor soul, is running all about the town In quest of me.

  • I well remember him when he went forth on his way to Salisbury, little thinking, poor soul, what was before him.

  • I moved on its pivot the invalid-table on which she had taken her meals and written her poems, poor soul.

  • From all I can hear of her, poor soul, she doesn't reckon Dexter among moral beings.

  • Let your Diary answer: 'I tenderly embraced her this very morning; and I hope, poor soul, she did not discover the effort that it cost me.

  • I tenderly embraced her this very morning, and I hope, poor soul, she did not discover the effort that it cost me.

  • And she, poor soul, in this one happy love of her sad life, forgot a little the burden of despair that darkened all the world to her.

  • I'll try not to be worldly-minded and marry without love, but it does look tempting to a poor soul like me.

  • Prussian Dryasdust (poor soul, to whom one is often cruel!

  • But you slept very well and he, poor soul, is long past harming you or any.

  • She, poor soul, running to escape falls shot and they to furious fight.

  • Ah, poor soul--poor man that might be, so do I pity thee!

  • Oh, be warned, poor soul, and escape while you may.

  • As soon as he could recover his wits he cried out-- "Have thy wish, poor soul!

  • He is afraid that she may fall ill next, poor soul, if she doesn't get air and exercise.

  • On her way to bed, poor soul, under the care of the housekeeper," Linley answered.

  • For the first time, poor soul, in the miserable years of her school life, she saw eyes that rested on her with the sympathy that is too truly felt to be uttered in words.

  • Mrs. Linley laughed for the first time, poor soul, since the catastrophe which had broken up her home.

  • Anne's first impulse was (excusably enough, poor soul) an impulse of resentment.

  • She made her excuses, poor soul, for venturing back to Windygates--her excuses to the man whose purpose at that moment was to throw her helpless on the world.

  • The hot tears of shame gathered in her eyes; and the heart-ache wrung her, poor soul--wrung her without mercy.

  • She is seriously ill, poor soul," he said.

  • She mentions, poor soul, something which she had to ask of you.

  • In former days--" She paused, poor soul, in evident confusion and distress.

  • What miserable vanity on my part to expect her to think of me, when she was absorbed in the first cares and joys of maternity; especially sacred to her, poor soul, as the one consolation of her melancholy life!

  • She is a Protestant, with all the prejudices incident to that way of thinking--avoids me so carefully, poor soul, that I have never seen her yet.

  • After a little struggle she gushed out aloud, "Ah, that I will, poor soul; this very moment.

  • He had to be helped away from this death-torrent he had walked into in high spirits, poor soul.

  • Like enough give me a thousand, and help me save my poor soul, that I shall damn if I meet him again.

  • Tis five year and more since I sailed in the Jesus out of Plimworth Sound, and there was Margery Tutt a-waving her little handkercher to me, thinking, poor soul, to see me again within a twelvemonth.

  • Oh Billy, poor soul, what a scarecrow 'ee do look!

  • He do have common ways o' speech, poor soul!

  • He has not done well by her, poor soul," whispered the woman; "call it after her own father.

  • That good man was blind, and would trouble her but little, for he had seen sorrow, poor soul, and was very silent.

  • Now, for my poor soul's interest, and as a loyal gentleman, bestir you; for I have that matter on my conscience that shall drag me deep.

  • Alas, poor soul, and we should rather pity him!

  • Beseech you, now, good boy, comfort a poor soul in peril and extreme distress, and set me so far forth upon the way to my repose.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor soul" 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:
    asked whether; doubtful whether; poor boy; poor chap; poor child; poor countries; poor darling; poor dears; poor fool; poor friend; poor gentleman; poor girl; poor house; poor quality; poor soil; poor souls; poor things; poor uncle; poor white; poor whites; poor wife; poor wretch; poor young; poorest countries; slow stages; vestal virgin