How To Use Poor boy In A Sentence
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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
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The poor boy smelled the delicious odour of cooked meat.
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I hope you're not overworking that poor boy.
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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
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With a bound, he leapt free of the car and nearly knocked the poor boy over.
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The poor boyfriend seems to have disappeared, but the wine was so glorious that her future was sealed.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He further said that even today education was a property of the rich whereas the poor boy, howsoever brilliant he may be was being deprived of it.
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The old woman's mirror told her that she was getting thin, that the work she had undertaken was too hard for her, and sometimes when the men drove in from the village with supplies (and the Poor Boy hid himself) she blarneyed them into lending a hand here and there.
If You Touch Them They Vanish
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I like to see them wink at a glass of claret, as if they had an intimate acquaintance with it, and discuss a salmi — poor boys — it is only when they grow old that they know they know nothing of the science, when perhaps their conscience whispers them that the science is in itself little worth, and that a leg of mutton and content is as good as the dinners of pontiffs.
The History of Pendennis
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I try to convince myself that it's conditioning, the poor boy and his fears of success.
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Tehy had to shave it to remoov a syst wunst, an he wuz embarrassed for weeks til it groo back, poor boy Even tho teh vet left a lion-tuft at teh end.
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The poor boyfriend seems to have disappeared, but the wine was so glorious that her future was sealed.
Times, Sunday Times
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For not unfrequently it happens that, for some reason or another, one feels abased, and inclined to value oneself at nothing, and to account oneself lower than a dishclout; but this merely arises from the fact that at the time one is feeling harassed and depressed, like the poor boy who today asked of me alms.
Poor Folk
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It was the most spectacular way in which a poor boy could achieve fame and fortune.
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My heart, however, labours under a double affliction: For my poor boy is very, very bad — a violent fever — nor can it be brought to intermit. —
Clarissa Harlowe
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There was something enjoyable at first to the poor boy's eyes, so long accustomed to the barren sea, in resting once more on the soft undulating green of the summer fields, which were intertissued with white and yellow flowers, like a broidery of pearls and gold.
Eric, or Little by Little
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The poor boys, innocent boys, the fragile flame of life snuffed out suddenly and so much candle left!
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But these words often came back to Eric's mind in later and less happy days -- days when that gentle hand could no longer rest lovingly on his head -- when those mild blue eyes were dim with tears, and the poor boy, changed in heart and life, often flung himself down with an unreproaching conscience to prayer-less sleep.
Eric, or Little by Little
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The poor boys, innocent boys, the fragile flame of life snuffed out suddenly and so much candle left!
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Long ground-sweeping scarves and chunky knit toques will funk up and warm up any outfit, while newsboy and poor boy caps in tweed or cord complete the look for men and women.
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Even adjusting for inflation, that's a lot of dough for a poor boy from the backwoods of Austria.
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I hope you're not overworking that poor boy.
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The poor boy was clearly discomfited, but we can never resist a mystery, so he gulped out an answer.
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The poor boy had to educate himself in the evening after finishing his work.
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The poor boys, innocent boys, the fragile flame of life snuffed out suddenly and so much candle left!
