The first four lines are poorly expressed; some Critics would call the language prosaic; the fact is, it would be bad prose, so bad, that it is scarcely worse in metre.
A large proportion of the crops grown for canning are poorly cultivated and unwisely handled, so that the average yield throughout the entire country is very low, hardly exceeding 100 bushels an acre.
It was a poorly painted thing, representing two men tied back to back, standing on shipboard, surrounded by a group of seamen who were preparing to cast them together into the sea.
The letter was poorly written andpoorly spelled, but full of pathos.
These have an active part only in the accumulation of useful qualities, and only in so [572] far as they protect the bearers of such characters against being crowded out by their more poorly constituted competitors.
Bad weather increased the number of poorly filled flower-heads, while warm and sunny days were productive of beautiful double flowers.
Tagetes africana is liable to produce some poorly filled specimens, and some double varieties of carnations are offered for sale with the note that the seed yields only 80% of doubles.
It is only stated that many of them bore either single or poorly filled flowers, or were objectionable in some other way.
It consists of endless declamations on the subject of proscription, which are poorly supported by a mere show of action.
Surely no man with so much money would live so poorly and have his wife and children so shabbily dressed.
It is to the honor of these poorlypaid ministers that they brought up these large families well.
It is a poorly printed little book about five inches long and three wide, of about eighty pages.
I should say the business is poorly organized that permits men of his calibre, with so little sense of balance, to hold positions of absolute authority.
Being poorly versed in geography, Hasting mistook this city for Rome, and resolved to capture it by strategem.
But he could not give up the thought of conquering a country which was so poorly equipped for defence.
Poorly armed though they were, they stormed down over the hill-sides into the city.
With proper care a poorly developed body may be improved and do effective work.
The odor of a poorly ventilated room is due to organic impurities given off with the carbon dioxide.
In most, the various organs mentioned are more or less developed, although in the simpler forms of animal life some of the organs mentioned above are either very poorly developed or entirely lacking.
If certain muscles are poorly developed, then by proper exercise we may make them stronger.
We now know that the feeling of closeness which we ascribe to a poorly ventilated room is due to the combination of warmth and moisture.
It is quite evident that a room could scarcely be so poorly ventilated as to bring the oxygen supply down below this figure, so that no attention need be paid to the oxygen supply in working out practical methods of ventilation.
Illustration: My bump of continuity was poorly developed.
I had read that quasi-science, phrenology, and came to the conclusion that I could not stick to any one thing because my bump of "continuity" was poorly developed.
Virgin fields on our way bore the enormous craters left by the explosion of poorly directed German shells of heavy calibre.
The command post had a long narrow interior which was well lighted but poorly ventilated, the walls and floor were of wood and a low beamed ceiling was supported by timbers.
It was a rather dirty and unkempt place, and very poorly lighted--a single incandescent alone burned in the hall.
It was a long way, and it would take a great while--by wide detours, by lanes and alleyways, for only on those streets that were relatively deserted and poorly lighted would she dare trust herself to the open.
In cars or public places, a boy or girl should never allow an old man or woman to stand, but should hasten to give up a seat and insist on its being taken, especially if the person is poorly dressed.
We should be especially careful to do all this if the new scholar is poorly or peculiarly dressed, or is crippled, or unfortunate in any way.
Geographical isolation and a poorly developed infrastructure remain major impediments to long-term growth.
The last-named two tribes have small, poorly built, partly underground houses, and their winter dwellings are entirely covered with earth.
Although yields generally rose with the successive introduction of better varieties, they remained low and of inferior quality in areas poorly adapted for the cultivation of a particular variety.
The country fared poorlyin the distribution of the spoils after the First Balkan War in 1912.
They are generally spare and sickly, they are poorly fed and are preyed upon by fever.
A poorly insulated line wire and a poorly insulated cable are two very different things.
They were overtaken and brought to bay, and a veritable massacre, rather than a battle, ensued, for most of the Pastoureaux were poorly armed.
A common practice is to seed to wheat between the shocked corn, and the wheat doespoorly unless the soil is quite fertile.
In northern latitudes it is the most dependable of all winter cover crops, making some growth in poorly prepared seed-beds and on thin land.
It was poorly furnished, and situated on the ground floor, abutting the burial-ground, so that one could without difficulty pass through the low window into the burial-ground.
