poor boy

How To Use poor boy In A Sentence

• Sallow-eyed, furtive, maybe a little brighter than the poor boy in the grocery store, backwoodsy but not an idiot. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
• The poor boy smelled the delicious odour of cooked meat.
• I hope you're not overworking that poor boy.
• Besides," said Daubeny, "if he knows me to be quite hopeless" -- and here the poor boy grew scarlet as he recalled the undeserved insult -- "it's no disgrace to me to fail. St. Winifred's, or The World of School
• With a bound, he leapt free of the car and nearly knocked the poor boy over.
• The poor boyfriend seems to have disappeared, but the wine was so glorious that her future was sealed. Times, Sunday Times
• Meantime, the Lady of Avenel, with agonizing anxiety, saw that the efforts that the poor boy made to keep himself afloat, were now exchanged for a faint struggling, which would soon have been over, but for aid equally prompt and unhoped-for. The Abbot
• How Mrs. Minchin contrived to keep her own feet and to nurse the poor boy as she did was a marvel. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
• The grammar schools in University towns had therefore originally no special importance, but many of the undergraduates who came up at thirteen or fourteen required some training such as William of Waynflete provided for his younger demies in connexion with the Grammar School which he attached to Magdalen, or such as Walter de Merton considered desirable when he ordained that there should be a Master of Grammar in his College to teach the poor boys, and that their seniors were to go to him in any difficulty without any false shame ( "absque rubore"). Life in the Medieval University
• Aunt Ada could not help weeping, and exclaimed, commiseratingly, "My poor, poor boy," as he strode up and down the room. The Garies and Their Friends