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• We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
• That was a poor performance.
• He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
• Oh you poor little thing.
• Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
• Mr. Campion sighed. ‘Poor man,’ he said. ‘He sees his great sacrifices rejected by the gods, and so, no doubt, all the Misses Eumenides let loose again to plague him.’
• Cow's milk is poor in iron.
• I received a poor reward for all my hard work.
• That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day.
• Blessed are the poor in spirit.
• The poor are always with us.