It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their
poor relations. Indeed great men have often more than their fair share of
poor relations, inasmuch as very red blood of the superior quality, like inferior blood unlawfully shed, WILL cry aloud and WILL be heard.
Bleak House
I need no blessings, but - but -' She stamped her foot at the poor relation. 'Take up the trays to the house.
Best of all, when the body was cleared, she cut out from the mass of poor relations that crowded the back of the buildings - house-hold dogs, we name them - a cousin's widow, skilled in what Europeans, who know nothing about it, call massage.
Kim
He is a kind, excellent, independent-spirited, fine-hearted, hospitable, liberal man (enthusiastic shouts from the
poor relations, at all the adjectives; and especially at the two last).
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
The uninvited guest Free and easy manners Salutary jokes A prodigal son Exit of the glutton A sudden change in fortune Danger of a visit to
poor relations Plucking of a prosperous man A vagabond toilet A substitute for the very fine horse Hard travelling The uninvited guest and the patriarchal colt A beggar on horseback A catastrophe Exit of the merry vagabond
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and
He is very good to his
poor relations: pensions several of the women, and is educating a young fellow at a good deal of expense.
Middlemarch
There were no foreclosures of mortgages, no protested notes, no bills payable, no debts of honour in Typee; no unreasonable tailors and shoemakers perversely bent on being paid; no duns of any description and battery attorneys, to foment discord, backing their clients up to a quarrel, and then knocking their heads together; no
poor relations, everlastingly occupying the spare bed-chamber, and diminishing the elbow room at the family table; no destitute widows with their children starving on the cold charities of the world; no beggars; no debtors' prisons; no proud and hard-hearted nabobs in Typee; or to sum up all in one word--no Money!
Typee
Poor relations are undeniably irritating,--their existence is so entirely uncalled for on our part, and they are almost always very faulty people.
The Mill on the Floss
All his
poor relations, to whom he would never speak, except with a sneer, shot up into the sky like wonderful golden flowers with blossoms of fire.
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Some of the higher scholars boarded in the Doctor's house, and through them I learned, at second hand, some particulars of the Doctor's history - as, how he had not yet been married twelve months to the beautiful young lady I had seen in the study, whom he had married for love; for she had not a sixpence, and had a world of
poor relations (so our fellows said) ready to swarm the Doctor out of house and home.
David Copperfield
The Blackburn manager views the UEFA Cup as being very much the
poor relation of the Champions League and that taking part was a burden to their Premiership campaign.
Football: SOUNESS: NO UEFA TARGET; B'BURN v MAN CITY, 3pm
Glyn Thornton, Merseyside regional organiser of the GMB, said: ``It appears local authority workers are being treated as the
poor relation within the public sector.''
Council workers in strike vote on pay
LIVERPOOL'S education chief claimed last night that English students are in danger of becoming the "
poor relation" to their Welsh and Scottish counterparts.
English students 'the poor relations'
Too often, the winter games are seen as the
poor relation to the summer ones and competitors therefore have a much lower profile.
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Special schools should not be viewed as a
poor relation to mainstream schools, simply an alternative which some pupils may need for some or all of their school lives.
Special case