Each family occupied a certain space according to number and relative importance, the poorermembers being nearer the door.
In each group the houses of the aristocracy and those of the poorer classes are of like construction, differing however in size, strength of material, interior appointments, and ornamentation.
Mrs. Martin who knew the poorerclasses better than he did, and their decided aversion to book learning, looked rather incredulous.
The unjust steward had been discharged, and Lord Wilton had gained golden opinions from his poorer neighbours, by listening kindly to their relation of grievances, and redressing them to the best of his ability.
He was made responsible, too, for the conduct of hispoorer neighbours.
Perhaps it was a fortunate fire, after all, for had he prospered he might have become more of a business man than poet, and the world be infinitely poorer by the exchange.
But bad times came, and they grew poorer and poorer, and the nights in which they went hungry to bed became more and more frequent.
Meanwhile, the son whom he had disinherited had grown poorer and poorer.
That evening they left the country for ever, and Jegu, without their help, grew poorer and poorer, and at last died of misery, while Barbaik was glad to find work in the market of Morlaix.
Richer and poorer there are, of course, but there are no very rich; there is none so poor that he cannot get plenty to eat and drink.
Amongst the poorer people a marriage is frequently kept secret for several days.
Both plains are like the poorer parts of our midland counties.
And if you have two coats and your poorer brother has none, you ort to give him your second best one.
The poorer class of Chinese let their feet grow to the natural size; it is only the aristocracy who bind up their feet.
Wuzn't it discouragin' to wash the feet of the poorer classes every year of her life, and then be shot down by one on 'em?
The Japanese are exceedingly neat and clean; they could teach needed lessons to the poorerclasses in America.
Some of the poorer natives chew beetle nuts which make their teeth look some like an old tobacco chewer's.
For the Poorer sort, make Posset-Drink with Pestilential Vinegar, and boyl in it some Butter-Roots, and give a Draught hot.
For thePoorer Sort, that Medicine of the Ancients, may be proper, viz.
For the Poorer sort, Shoemakers Wax is as good as any.
Outwardly it looked even respectable, and was largely occupied by the poorer labouring class, who often divided their abodes by letting them out to lodgers.
Those in the gallery were evidently of the poorer class, and they accompanied the chorus of the song with a vigorous stamping of feet and whistling accompaniment.
They are mostly made of thin red leather, plain in the case of poorer people and richly embroidered in the case of rich people.
The spiked millet, known as bajra or cumbu, which yields a poorer food, is grown on dry sandy soil in the Deccan and the Punjab.
Gram is largely eaten by the poorer classes, but it is also used as horse-food.
But on this very point the wealthy citizens and poorer classes were divided; so the former, having everything to apprehend from allowing matters to be carried to extremity, were strongly inclined to treat with the Prince of Parma.
They seemed to think it would be a good idea to write the speeches a little longer than necessary and then the poorer parts of the effort could be cut out.
Most of the Jews who live over here are poor; and the poorerthey are, the higher rent do they pay, and the more do they crowd to make it up between them.
It was enough that he was "poorer than they," and lonely and hungry and cold.
En passant, it may be said that some of the methods of the poorer Mexican peones are not much in advance of those of our common ancestor--primeval man!
The women of the poorer classes accept, with what to the foreigner seems almost a pathetic resignation, the style of dress which custom has dictated to their class.
Furniture and other household chattels are not acquired nor required by thepoorer class of peon.
Anjou linen, because it was obtained from that duchy; a coarse, heavy cloth of the poorer quality of flax.
The people of all the New England States are poorer when the ignorant whites, foreigners, or negroes of our southern states destroy the robins and other song birds of the North for a mess of pottage.
But he knows that he is the poorer by a cheese or a bundle of wool each time.
Haymaking still; Isak bringing in loads and masses of hay, for woodland grass is not the same as meadow grass, more's the pity, but poorer by far.
The poorer Hindoos make a simple pipe of two pieces of bamboo,--one cut close to a knot for the bowl, and a more slender piece for the tube.
The habit of chewing tobacco is also prevalent in 'the States,' nor is it, as in Great Britain and Ireland, almost entirely confined to the poorer classes.
In some countries pipes and cigarettes are made to do duty by the poorer classes, but in New York cigars seem to be almost invariably preferred.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poorer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
