Whether seen from the point of view of the citizen, the philanthropist, or the Christian, the slum is the poorestinvestment a city can make, and once made it is not easily unmade.
They are damp and dark, and the tenants, who are always the poorest and most crowded, live "as in a cage open only toward the front.
The geological department of the Museum is the weakest and poorest department; and as spirits of wine and glass jars are expensive articles in India, the greatest number of the animals, even the fish and snakes, are simply stuffed.
Good National Schools are in operation everywhere, and are--as far as my own inquiries authorize me to report--well attended by pupils recruited from the ranks of the poorest classes.
Fish is always within the reach of the poorest people.
Then, in nine cases out of ten--especially if he happens to be one of the poorest and most unfortunate--he is mercilessly sneered over.
The living among the poorest of the workmen will be very meagre, and a great many will not have enough to eat until the next Friday comes round, bringing with it the first pay.
It is pathetic, especially on cold, wintry mornings, to note the rivet boys and others of the poorest class as they approach the entrance by the coffee stalls.
An instant before the train moved off from the station, a dying man belonging to the poorest class was thrust into our second class carriage and the door slammed to.
Five or six in one house, and ten or twelve in the other; and this I state upon the printed authority of Lord Harrowby, the tried and acknowledged friend of our Church, the amiable and revered patron of its poorest members.
The French arm comes next to the English in point of excellence, while the Austrian is the poorest of all.
They paint their cheeks red, and this addition is deemed even by the poorest essential to beauty.
One day in every week is devoted to this sacred duty; when the emperor, with the first dawning of the morning, attends in a private apartment to receive petitions and complaints from the mouths of even the poorest of his subjects.
The Athenians, irritated by the support which Artaxerxes had lately given to the revolt of their allies, and excited by rumours of his hostile preparations, were feverishly eager for a war with Persia.
It is one of the poorest countries of Europe in this particular.
Throughout Thibet, every one, from the poorest mendicant up to the Tale-Lama, takes his meals out of a wooden cup.
In his Thibetian lessons, he substituted for the mild, gentle, insinuating tone of his former instruction, manners the most insufferably harsh and brutal, such as the worst tempered pedagogue would not betray towards the poorest of his pupils.
Soil exhaustion is leading to abandonment of the poorest land and is compelling methods of scientific agriculture on the remainder.
It often has to work with the poorest kind of material, sometimes it has to feed the pupil before his mental powers can get to work.
The poorest classes live in cellars that reek with disease germs of the worst kind, and sanitary conditions are indescribable.
The return for capital from the poorest mine paying no rent, would regulate the rent of all the other more productive mines.
They expect from the army the largest expenditure of force, but sometimes give it the smallest means and poorestconditions of recuperating it.
There is no spirit sent the heart to move With such prevailing and alarming love; Passion to reason will submit--or why Should wealthy maids the poorest swains deny?
He would turn servant for her sake, would keep The poorest school, the very streets would sweep, To show his love.
With such power in their hands, instead of selling their product at high rates, they have kept oil at such low prices that the poorest all over the world have been enabled to buy and use it.
The boys to be aided must be from the poorest in the town, are to receive a good common education, and be taught in agriculture or in some mechanic art in the shops on the premises.
Every citizen of Pittsburg, even the very humblest, now walks into this, his own library; for the poorest laborer contributes his mite indirectly to its support.
It has reached eight editions in so many weeks; yet literally it is one of the very poorest sort of common novels, with the draw-back of dull religion in it.
I would not have had you offer up the poorest rag that lingered upon the stript shoulders of little Alice Fell, to have atoned all their malice.
In short, she was the poorest and ugliest old woman that ever came begging.
The poorest historical Fact, and the grandest imaginative Fiction.
The first stage of the Revolution by which the Bourgeoisie came into power must be followed by the second stage in which power must pass into the hands of the Proletariat and of the poorest peasants.
The latter to be elected among the poorest peasants.
And finally, in the third place, even if reform be the sole object in view, reformism is the poorest policy to follow to get it.
Do the Reds deny that millions and millions of the very poorestare chaste?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poorest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
