At other times, Trotty might have learned a poor man's lesson from the wintry sun; but, he was past that, now.
Trotty might have read a poor man's allegory in the fading year; but he was past that, now.
But you are the Poor Man's Friend, you know, Sir Joseph.
'I AM the Poor Man's Friend,' observed Sir Joseph, glancing at the poor man present.
'My lady,' returned Sir Joseph, with solemnity, 'not the less am I the Poor Man's Friend and Father.
'I do my duty as the Poor Man's Friend and Father; and I endeavour to educate his mind, by inculcating on all occasions the one great moral lesson which that class requires.
The Chimes
He dared not do anything that would imply a stronger interest in a
poor man's adopted child than could be expected from the kindliness of the young Squire, when a chance meeting suggested a little present to a simple old fellow whom others noticed with goodwill; but he told himself that the time would come when he might do something towards furthering the welfare of his daughter without incurring suspicion.
Silas Marner
It was considered as being bad enough to be a slave; but to be a
poor man's slave was deemed a disgrace indeed!
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave
"Well, I have no objection to your contemplating Hetty in an artistic light, but I must not have you feeding her vanity and filling her little noddle with the notion that she's a great beauty, attractive to fine gentlemen, or you will spoil her for a
poor man's wife--honest Craig's, for example, whom I have seen bestowing soft glances on her.
Adam Bede
With thoughts like this, and with some vague design of travelling to a great distance among streams and mountains, where only very poor and simple people lived, and where they might maintain themselves by very humble helping work in farms, free from such terrors as that from which they fled--the child, with no resource but the
poor man's gift, and no encouragement but that which flowed from her own heart, and its sense of the truth and right of what she did, nerved herself to this last journey and boldly pursued her task.
The Old Curiosity Shop
"How unjust this must be for that
poor man's family and friends."
@dailyrecord
In a statement here, he said, this was no politics but was the issue of the
poor man's life.
Sirajul Haq calls upon govt to withdraw increase in prices of Atta, sugar, cooking oil
Te prices of
poor man's fuel did not jump overnight but it was gradual increase.
LPG mafia looting public amid govt silence
Area people have demanded financial assistance for the members of the
poor man's family from
Father, daughter killed, son injured in roof collapse incident
Summary: Rethink follows query from auditors on why a revision had not taken place for '
poor man's chariot' and advice that cost of bedroll be included in fare
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