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Example sentences for "this poor"

  • Yet such pomp must have been his portion in this poor shadow of a world, and the steps that encircle an usurper's throne are ever slippery with blood.

  • By this poor, earthly symbol I create thee King of Earth; yea in its round for thee is gathered all her rule.

  • Have you grown hungry there that you return to this poor place?

  • But the love of this poor woman, who had confessed the miseries of her life, was so sweet a thing, and so moved the most dissipated heart, that she silenced all clamour, and everyone forgave her her happiness.

  • I will here relate the grief that his young wife caused him, and it will be seen that, by the side of this poor President, M.

  • The pastor of the neighbouring hamlet felt pity for this poor child, who was sometimes tormented by her companions on account of her colour.

  • As to this poor woman, Barbara Spencer, she was the daughter of mean parents and was left very young to the care of her mother, who lived in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate.

  • About this time his first acquaintance began with Dyer, who was the great occasion of this poor fellow's ruin, whom he continually plagued to go out a-robbing, and sometimes threatened him if he did not.

  • I will see the queen; I will relate to her the details of the disappearance of this poor woman, of which she is no doubt ignorant.

  • Planchet," said d'Artagnan, "I commit the corpse of this poor devil to your care.

  • Three days afterwards, this poor vulture, which has been very much indisposed since that dinner, suddenly feels very giddy while flying aloft in the clouds, and falls heavily into a fish-pond.

  • This poor fellow, whom Caderousse had forgotten, had not forgotten him, and at his death he bequeathed this diamond to him.

  • In a second she saw the immense devotion of this poor creature, who had given up everything in order to live beside her, without saying anything.

  • He exclaimed: "Is this irony not enough to unbalance the mind of this poor wretch, who has neither father nor mother?

  • This poor Jack of the Nursery, with his miraculous shoes of swiftness, coat of darkness, sword of sharpness, he is one.

  • Strange to think: Dante was the friend of this poor Francesca's father; Francesca herself may have sat upon the Poet's knee, as a bright innocent little child.

  • Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality" in this poor world of ours.

  • This poor boy, in his very mean clothes, carried more heart's ease in his bosom, than he that was clad in silk and velvet.

  • Even a providence managed by the almighty wisdom, and almighty power, to the conversion and salvation of this poor creature.

  • Having made ourselves merry at the expense of this poor admirer, I seized the opportunity of her mother's going out of the room, and introduced my own passion, which I recommended to her with all the ardour and eloquence I was master of.

  • I was so much touched with the generous passion of this poor creature, that I could not refrain from weeping also, and we mingled our tears together for some time.

  • Since this unhappy retreat commenced I have scarce ever been able to sleep for thinking of my clan, and of this poor Prince, whom they are leading back like a dog in a string, whether he will or no, and of the downfall of my family.

  • A moment--a moment; this poor prisoner is dying; where shall I find a surgeon?

  • Besides, my foot aches, and my heart, this poor heart, bears a wound which a friend's careful hand will soothe.

  • I confess that my relation to this poor woman, who had so many trials, and is now suffering so much, has always spurred me on to preserve and develop my moral powers.

  • Burn these dear relics, this poor evidence of shattered happiness.

  • Then you felt that a tie attached you to this poor man, that his misfortune struck you too, that a part of it was yours, and that you were smitten because your father was.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this account; this act; this art; this belief; this camp; this coast; this earth; this history; this idea; this instance; this instant; this line; this neighbourhood; this our; this passage; this picture; this piece; this planet; this proposition; this report; this school; this side; this substance; this that; this time; this vast