How To Use poor devil In A Sentence
- The captain of the brig listened attentively and when the words ended ordered the poor devil to be strung up on the yardarm according to British naval regulations concerning privateers.
- One would think that the police would be allowed not to prosecute when they lose eight out of 10 cases, but the Crown Law Office sends to court the poor devils who have already been traumatised.
- A morass of half-reconstituted chicken curry didn't go down all that well; I'm sure the poor devils thought I was trying to poison them.
- He has lost his job, poor devil!
- This done, the devil, the farmer, and their gangs, hied them to market, and there the farmer presently made good money of his radishes; but the poor devil took nothing; nay, what was worse, he was made a common laughing-stock by the gaping hoidens. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Don't be hard on a poor devil.
- What on earth was eating the poor devil?
- “I suppose the poor devil got pranged,” said Jerry. Presumption of Death
- He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections, and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that.
- But, after doing so, the surviving poor devils were discarded like a bunch of rags.
