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Example sentences for "pore"

Lexicographically close words:
porcion; porco; porcupine; porcupines; pordo; pored; pores; porgies; porgy; poring
  1. When presently in came one of them quite quietly and said in a whisper: "I spikes ze Inglesh, pore feller!

  2. Pore little soul, she'll wep them pretty eyes o' hers out, sure.

  3. Sed we wus to fix you up in pore Dave Steele's bunk.

  4. Say, speakin' metaphoric, that feller got the drop on pore Joe.

  5. Say, pore Joe wus weepin' over his sins, an' I guess we wus all 'most ready to cry.

  6. The cup elongates, and its mouth, originally wide open, becomes more and more narrow, until it forms a small pore opening into an elongated blind sack.

  7. The central cavity becomes the cavity of the gut; the pore leading into it marks the hind end of the future animal, in the case of vertebrates, and is known as the blastopore.

  8. It isn't mine," cried Job, the perspiration starting from every pore of his body.

  9. Time they gits up that ladder pore Brown he were all in an' had to lie down on the ground a-coughin' fit to kill hisself.

  10. Talk about your Kilkenny cats," he continued, "they wan't in it with them two pore devils down in that cold water.

  11. Pore old Blue Jay come floating past 'em, an' they tried to catch him, but the current was so swift they couldn't do it.

  12. My pore daddy he back allus done cut up from the whip and bit by the dogs.

  13. I crys out to the Lawd to save me and, sho' 'nough, He hear the cry of a pore mis'able sinner.

  14. He wasn't so tall as my mommer and he name John Allen and he a pore man, all bone.

  15. Perspiration poured from every pore as he visualized the horror he might be compelled to witness when he was finally taken into Barter's hideout.

  16. Bentley could feel the sweat burst forth on him in every pore as he tried to throw off his awful inertia, to go to the aid of Keller.

  17. The sweat burst through every pore in His skin.

  18. Every pore of His skin swelled like a boil, the hair stood on end on them like the kadamba flower.

  19. Thus doe these popish pristes envent lies to deceave the pore symple people.

  20. And there was 3 sackes rise, of 50 gantes per sack, geven to 3 pore Chinas which lost their junck per tempest of the cost of Shashma and came to the China Capt.

  21. And the kinge sent to have a gathering throughout Firando towardes the releeving the pore people whose howses were burnt; towardes which we gave a tay in plate.

  22. I gave a tay in small plate to two pore sick women of my owne money, the one a China woman, and the other a Japon.

  23. This day the trew news came of the burnyng of above 200 howses at Langasaque, wherof many did belonge to pore Chinas.

  24. I gave a bar plate to Domingos mother, she coming to vizet me, she being a very pore woman with 8 children, and her sonne serving me.

  25. Wot a pore Tommy has got ter put up with.

  26. Wot a pore Tommy 'as got ter put up with.

  27. And there was pore old Jack who got a dose in the arm an' 'ad to walk a 'ell of a way to the dressin' station.

  28. My horse--pshaw now, pore critter, do-ee look now!

  29. Ain't there no one to show a pore old helpless man what he ought to do?

  30. It ain't the same as if Bonnie Bell was pore and he was pore too.

  31. I can't agree to no pore young man for her, for I couldn't trust him.

  32. A pore man may get money or a rich man may lose money.

  33. I ain't got northin' left but chawin', an thet's derned pore stuff ter burn.

  34. Mylo's wife don't see no use, Ner no reason ner excuse Fer his pore relations to Hang round like they allus do!

  35. Over and over agin some pore feller, arter working 'ard for months at sea, comes 'ome with a few pounds in 'is pocket and gets robbed of the lot.

  36. Sam 'adn't turned up by the time they got there, and pore Ginger took advantage of it to put a little warm candle-grease on 'is bad leg.

  37. I'm a pore man and I can't afford such things; I sold it this morning, a bargain, for thirty bob.

  38. I'm a pore man, but I've got my feelings.

  39. I called one day upon those Leatherstonepaughs, and they never even apologized for receiving me in a room where there was an insane American just escaped from her keeper, tray beang arrangee pore doncy le cong cong!

  40. Well, bimeby, my bruddren, what you tink dat pore man seen?

  41. I dessay, if all was known, the lady 'as reasons for keeping her 'at on, pore thing!

  42. Land knows the pore old things was entitled to their hides, they got so little else; but pa said it didn't make no difference to them whether they had any hide or not, and that the skins would sell for enough to get the kids some shoes.

  43. Oh, 'cause pa's heart is just set on making a go of it here, and we would be just as pore anywhere else.

  44. We have tried a heap of times to start a home, and we've worked hard, but we were never so pore before.

  45. We ain't seen pa for two months, not sence hayin' began, but we work all we can to shorten the days; and we sure do miss pore old Nick and Fan.

  46. Charlotte was on the pore farm too, until her cousin died and she got left a home and enough to live on.

  47. If pore old hard-worked pa can stand it, the kids and me can.

  48. I went back to work as broke up as Danyul, and that winter I come down with such a long spell of sickness that they sent me to the pore farm.

  49. The poor old woman lives only for two things--to hide others who should pass through, and to pore over a torn and dog-eared copy of the Bible which a poor priest did leave with her.

  50. He looked at the indifferent backs of the monks bending over their work; a great fury came over him, and he longed to strike and beat them, that they could so placidly pore over their books, while this thing was going on outside.

  51. From those Épinal prints I learned things far finer and more useful than anything I ever got from the little grammar and history books my schoolmasters gave me to pore over.

  52. It can be imagined, perhaps, with what wonder and baffled curiosity they pore over the illustrated newspapers which are occasionally given to them by the sailors of whaling vessels which visit the coast.

  53. Betty was wearing the ring she had taken from Polly "just to remember her by, pore thing," and the others were blazing in similar brilliants.

  54. But you'll want to look at 'er, pore thing!

  55. Let me put the pore thing to bed; she's allus used to me," said the woman piteously.

  56. Me and my friends were just talkin' of a gentleman of your cloth, sir--the pore feller as 'as got into trouble acrost Westminster way.

  57. Pore little thing, it's quite took to me already, as if it wanted to enkirridge you, my dear.

  58. If I tyke it I want to feel it is syme as my very own and do my dooty by it, pore thing!

  59. My pore missis 'as got off and wants to come 'ome, sir, and I thought as you'd tell me what I oughter do.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.