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Example sentences for "that poor"

  • You wouldn't be so cruel to that poor boy, would you, Pendennis?

  • The empress shivered, as the countess probed the wounds herself had made in that poor, jealous heart.

  • If your majesty refuses me that poor boon," continued Gunther, "I appeal to the laws.

  • SO dark and gloomy was the face of the empress, that poor Charlotte's heart misgave her, as with a suppressed sigh she resumed her place, and once more took down the rich masses of her sovereign lady's hair.

  • But memory of that poor, bewildered little figure, those anxious eyes searching the passers-by, smote him too hard again, and once more he turned towards the sea.

  • That poor man is a graveyard thief; a hyena; a ghoul--not worth consideration.

  • She answered almost in a whisper: "Yes; but there is that poor man.

  • Why should I have to sit in judgment on that poor beggar, and condemn him?

  • She is half a foreigner, you see, and does not understand, and she is worse than no one to that poor girl.

  • It matters not who I am; let me be judged by what I shall do; and if I do not save the life of that poor lady, you may plunge me into the river, or roast me in the furnace.

  • I would look upon myself as a disgraced, unworthy, mean fellow, and so would everybody else, were I to take advantage of that poor girl's situation.

  • That poor girl's heart is desperately wounded, and nothing on earth can cure it except a look at Eddie Demar.

  • We must remember, Kenrick, that poor St. George's daughter may be still alive, and may have a host of children.

  • The vision of that poor, suffering boy leaning his head against Ella and clasped in her arms, seemed indelibly stamped upon his brain.

  • I can only repeat that two days ago I did not know of that poor boy's death.

  • I have always wished that he could have known just as cleverly what he wanted when he chose his wife--that poor Marianne.

  • I have no fear of them; I have no fear of that poor Marianne; I have no fear of anything.

  • That poor boy, who has seen his father die before his eyes, and who is being brought into a foreign country at the mercy of strangers, is very unfortunate.

  • I appreciate, as I should, the desire which animates you; however, respect the feelings of that poor girl, very unhappy on account of her sad disposition and her delicate constitution.

  • I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor Holofernes.

  • He replied in a low voice:-- "How is that poor woman?

  • That poor, unhappy man in yonder prison has no friend or relative to claim his body, his father being absent; and if we do not claim it, it will be ignominiously buried by the prison authorities within the prison walls.

  • Something, I fancy, it was, about the murder of that poor girl.

  • She loved him with her whole body and with all her soul to the very depths of her poor, weak soul, and with all her heart, that poor heart of some grateful animal.

  • The common herd are neither charitable nor refined, and every eye was turned toward that poor lady.

  • I will solicit the pardon of that poor boy," said Aramis.

  • Madame pronounced this last word in such an accent of frankness, and even of tenderness, that poor De Guiche's heart felt almost bursting.

  • But when I think of that poor man in his dungeon, and of how each of the days which we have wasted here may be an age of pain to him, and of how much hangs upon our action--how much!

  • But it made no difference: all the clocks in purgatory tick-tacked in that poor woman's jaw, and it was a mercy of Providence that ever she came across me.

  • Yet he was not alone; one sad stricken woman's heart was bound to that poor shadow of former vital wealth forever.

  • And he pretended he used to be a friend of that poor boy!

  • Val saw by her white and parted lips how that poor, fluttering, frightened heart was throbbing.

  • The death of that poor fellow, Churr, clings to him, say what one may.

  • If this be so, I leave you to on that poor girl's side to the very last.

  • Well, old friend, we have done all we can, so let us stay away till they have wreaked their silly vengeance on that poor, mad soul.

  • And yet you're afraid of that poor half-daft old woman.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    make anything; that age; that all; that believeth; that case; that church; that class; that from; that had; that has; that hath; that her; that makes; that may; that moment; that now; that occasion; that part; that province; that score; that she; that this; that was; that way; walked about; whom they