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Example sentences for "poor darling"

  • But my poor darling is a child; a baby in ignorance of the world.

  • Poor darling, I shall miss his kindly face in our Scottish tour.

  • Poor darling Hilda, I must show her very gently and gradually how terribly she is spoiling Judy.

  • She does not know, how could she, poor darling, how many rubs married people have to live through, and how jolly and comfortable they are notwithstanding them.

  • She was sticking in the wood and couldn't get out, poor darling, but my dear little knife cut the wood away and then she ran home.

  • She, poor darling, misunderstood something I said to her at Lornbay.

  • But what is your plan as regards Margaret, my poor darling sister?

  • I sent everything wrong, and, poor, poor darling, she sacrificed herself to save me.

  • Poor darling, how tired and sad she must be.

  • As it is, poor darling, you will only have this house and about six thousand a year.

  • V Alexina had admitted to herself some time since (never to that wretch, Aileen Lawton) that he was rather dull, poor darling.

  • My poor darling, you have had a sad time of it," he remarked presently.

  • He set up a loud scream, and Zillah ran to the rescue, picking him up with a cry of "Oh, poor darling, mamma is so sorry!

  • My poor darling, you are already almost spent," Rupert said tenderly.

  • But I don't mean to trouble her about my small worries, poor darling.

  • Sara, poor darling, is as happy as possible.

  • Poor darling," she said, "he has such horrid ones.

  • Poor darling, she can't bear me out of her sight.

  • Poor darling--how uncomfy he is, with all his little rose-leaves crumpled under him.

  • Still the friendship of which he had spoken somewhat bitterly yesterday--poor darling--remained.

  • Your Aunt Adelaide wrote me all about it, and my heart ached for my poor darling; oh, how I longed to comfort her!

  • It is God, my poor darling, who sends you this trial, and he will give you strength according to your day.

  • For Heaven's sake tell me what it is; my poor darling, my bonnie Mary?

  • O sister who made holy with your kiss, Your kiss in that wet dark mild night of March There in the hideous infamous London streets My cheek, and made my soul a sacred place, O my poor darling, O my little lost sheep!

  • O my poor darling, O my little lost sheep Of this vast flock that perishes alone Out in the pitiless desert!

  • Yes--oh yes, poor darling; and she looked so sad when she just alluded to it!

  • I know now why I am lonely; I want my poor darling Sophia.

  • Rich in friends, I hope, Augusta; but rich, poor darling, in nothing else.

  • We go to seek the place where my poor darling suffered so much.

  • In the midst of my thought my eye fell on the red scar on my poor darling's white forehead.

  • My poor darling's brain told her the significance of the fact as quickly as her nerves received the pain of it; and the two so overwhelmed her that her overwrought nature had its voice in that dreadful scream.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    direct attention; made into; marry another; poor body; poor boys; poor brother; poor child; poor children; poor creature; poor creatures; poor fellows; poor health; poor house; poor mamma; poor master; poor mistress; poor opinion; poor parents; poor peasant; poor place; poor quality; poor sister; poor wife; poor young; sudden gust; three generations