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Example sentences for "poor souls"

  • Indeed, dear reader, no one is more deserving of Christian charity and sympathy than the poor souls in Purgatory.

  • Sech merry doings bean't for we poor souls," remarked one of the men despondently.

  • Be-jowned if 'a didn't ought to be locked up for playing such gashly tricks on poor souls.

  • But this is the trap in which the devil hath caught many thousands of poor souls, namely, by getting them to judge according to outward appearance, or according to God's outward blessings.

  • Poor souls, through ignorance of the nature of that Covenant of Works, the law that they are under, they do not think their state to be half so bad as it is; when, alas!

  • God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!

  • But, O, poor souls, Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox, Good night to your redress!

  • There is a generation of poor souls that do think to be excused for their ignorance: Alas!

  • How shall the like of us-- Poor souls--requite such blessing of our rude bean-feast?

  • Unluckily, poor souls, It proved to be the impossible thing itself; Truth and not sham: hence ruin to them all.

  • Yon should be the gold-train for Panama or Carthagena, or mayhap Indians being marched to slavery in the mines, poor souls!

  • They are as bad as the landlords; but, poor souls!

  • He has only told them to try and do their best, poor souls!

  • If it was something to make a little money by, poor souls!

  • Poor souls, they little knew what sort of social qualities they were letting themselves in for.

  • Yes, to be sure; I've no doubt some of them are very badly off, poor souls.

  • And there they be still, poor souls," said Copstone.

  • There they be, poor souls, marooned on that same island, which indeed we took and named Maiden Isle for behoof of her gracious Majesty.

  • The only thing that we poor souls could do would be to crawl out by the hole, and fetch a long compass to the cliff yonder where the guns be, and blow them up for the knaves.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    arthritis deformans; beat thoroughly; enteric fever; poor aunt; poor body; poor creature; poor creatures; poor darling; poor girl; poor health; poor house; poor lady; poor land; poor mother; poor niece; poor opinion; poor papa; poor peasant; poor priests; poor soil; poor soul; poor things; poor uncle; poor wife; poorly developed; premature explosion