How To Use Poor devil In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He has lost his job, poor devil!
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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
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Don't be hard on a poor devil.
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What on earth was eating the poor devil?
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“I suppose the poor devil got pranged,” said Jerry.
Presumption of Death
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He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections, and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that.
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But, after doing so, the surviving poor devils were discarded like a bunch of rags.
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He remembered thinking at the time: That poor devil is done for.
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I felt sorry for Blake, poor devil.
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“From seeing the danger to which my incautious knight-errantry has exposed me; I begin, indeed, to take you for a very mischievous sort of person, and I fear the poor devil from whom I rescued you will be amply revenged for his disgrace, by finding that the first use you make of your freedom is to doom your deliverer to bondage.”
Cecilia
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The poor devil was the first person to ever get run over by a train.
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The pressures associated with his baldness finally wore down the poor devil.
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I know bow the poor devil feels.
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After that, dead silence: and the poor devil left in the trenches to digest that "retook"!
Coming Home.
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One of those manholes like a bloody gaspipe and there was the poor devil stuck down in it , half choked with sewer gas.
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They are the real patriots, not the poor devils who are riding this bear market down.
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It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The poor devil had another heart attack last night.
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And the poor devil can't hide a thing from her.
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Eliot has it perhaps worse than I have - poor devil.
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He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections, and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that.
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He's been ill for weeks, poor devil.
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From time to time I poked my head out into the rain, and called cheery encouragement to the reinforcements, or sent messages to Havelock - I remember one of them was that Delhi had fallen at last, and that old Johnny Nicholson had bought a bullet, poor devil.
Fiancée
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I was driving past and tried to stop this poor devil getting beaten up.
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He only spoils the show, poor devil.
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Enough of the man, for he is dead now, poor devil, dead at the very time that he had made sure that he had at last discovered the elixir of life.
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To do this, some poor devil was up all night with the Letraset making desk signs bearing the slogan ‘The Buck Stops Here.’
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Poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he trained the parrot to talk for him.
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I felt sorry for Blake, poor devil.
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It got to the point where the poor devil daren't leave the bedroom door even slightly ajar for fear that I would sneakily insert a syringe through the gap in an attempt to feed him tea intravenously.
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I felt sorry for Blake, poor devil.
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As Auntie Mame so colorfully stated, life is a banquet- and most poor devils are starving to death.
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The poor devils have to hack their own speeches out, and of course they often sound that way, heavygoing phrases and so on.
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Maybe she is and maybe she isn't, and the audience will judge for themselves, but what else is the poor devil going to say?
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“Gharíb:” the porter is offended because the word implies “poor devil;” esp. one out of his own country.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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From time to time I poked my head out into the rain, and called cheery encouragement to the reinforcements, or sent messages to Havelock — I remember one of them was that Delhi had fallen at last, and that old Johnny Nicholson had bought a bullet, poor devil.
Flashman In The Great Game
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The poor devil must have performed non-stop pirouettes in his grave during a segment of the '40s.
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What on earth is wrong with the poor devil?
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This demon terrified his companions half out of their wits, but Apollonius bravely assailed him with all sorts of hard words, and, to literally translate the old Greek narrative, "blackguarded" him so effectually that the poor devil fled with his tail between his legs.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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Why, a poor devil like me should keep a dog.
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He failed his examination, poor devil.
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There was a poor devil standing upright with his arms raised and his legs apart, clutching at the grille, like an orang-outang.
Maid in Waiting
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Thus, the first order of the new Pax Americana is to bring those we deem as heathens to democracy, to modernize the poor devils, and while we're at it teach them the beauties of a more materialistic culture.
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A cast list of more than about five scares the poor devils to death.
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This isn't a propitious start for him, poor devil.
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Poor devils - they had come to believe that their wings were real.
