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Example sentences for "poor lady"

  • I saw that in a minute, and thought she’d be the death of my poor lady.

  • She surely had enough, poor lady, to make her so.

  • That made her very cross--poor Lady Henry!

  • Well, poor lady, she had suffered for her whims.

  • He spent nearly a week in the little cottage at Sea View, and Mrs. Warkworth got far more pleasure than usual, poor lady, out of his visit.

  • Poor Lady Di was throughout unfortunate in her marriages.

  • With comic pantomime of distress, and repeated exclamations of "Poor lady, poor lady!

  • She do say, 'Poor lady, poor lady, to be so sick!

  • Mamma has gone up with them, to help them to break it to poor Lady Lucy.

  • Poor Lady Martindale, when she had sent her note of invitation to Lady Elizabeth and Emma to spend a long day at Brogden, she little imagined how long the day would be to her suspense.

  • The list of charges against Mark's character deepened every day, and added to poor Lady Elizabeth's horror, but he always contrived to render them as nothing to Emma.

  • She was all alone, in deep weeds of widowhood, and almost every voice within twenty miles had within the last fortnight more than once uttered the words "Poor Lady Car!

  • She asked him first how Lady Caroline was--poor Lady Caroline!

  • Perhaps in all the world no sight could have been so welcome at that moment to poor Lady Jane as Rosamund's bright face.

  • Poor Lady Jane, who was watching them from her boudoir window, breathed a sigh of relief.

  • One day I was out driving with father, and we saw a poor lady sitting by the roadside.

  • I ended my last with the melancholy news of poor Lady Ashburnham's death.

  • Poor Lady Masham, I am afraid, will lose her only son, about a twelvemonth old, with the king's evil.

  • Poor Lady Shelburne: well, go get you to bed, sirrahs.

  • The account came this morning: I had a short note from my poor Lady Ailesbury, who was waked with the good news before she had heard there had been a battle.

  • You will feel, my dear lord, for the loss I have had, and for the much greater affliction of poor Lady Malpas.

  • Poor Lady Susan O'Brien is in the most deplorable situation, for her Adonis is a Roman Catholic, and cannot be provided for out of his calling.

  • Poor Lady Gower(139) is dead this morning of a fever in her lying-in.

  • Between each little access a few broken words fell from the poor lady's lips.

  • There was a redness on her countenance nowadays which was not exactly bloom; and it stretched across her cheeks, and over the point of her nose, as she was painfully aware, poor lady.

  • Mrs. Temple, poor lady, had died on that first night of my illness, and it was her punishment that she had not known her son or her son's happiness.

  • The loss of her husband weighs upon her, poor lady.

  • He behaved very well, everybody said, to poor Lady Lindores, his brother's young widow, who had thus been left at once widowed and childless.

  • And now to go and break my poor lady's heart at the last--Oh, sir, sir!

  • The castle was consequently filled with crowds of amateurs; novels and plays were the order of the day; and a theatre was fitted up, all in open defiance of poor Lady Glistonbury.

  • A time of great crimes among great men: for you know high blood, when it runs wrong, will not run tamely like blood of the canaille--poor lady!

  • The landlord and the waiter served up such a number of them as they served up the dishes, that they almost frightened away the poor lady's appetite.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poor lady" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    certain birds; chronic catarrh; large paper; only because; poor beggar; poor body; poor boys; poor brother; poor creature; poor dear; poor devil; poor folks; poor health; poor heart; poor husband; poor opinion; poor papa; poor place; poor sinner; poor sinners; poor thing; poor things; poor wife; poor woman; poorly developed; raise wages