Citations:poor

English citations of poor

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• 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:

  May we but stand before impartial men, To his poor one I dare adventure ten, That they will take my meaning in these lines Far better than his lies in silver shrines.

  Then I stepped to him that plucked him out, and said, Sir, wherefore, since over this place is the way from the City of Destruction to yonder gate, is it that this plat is not mended, that poor travellers might go thither with more security?

  After this, Evangelist called aloud to the heavens for confirmation of what he had said: and with that there came words and fire out of the mountain under which poor Christian stood, that made the hair of his flesh stand up.

• 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:

  "A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" said Scrooge, buttoning his great-coat to the chin. "But I suppose you must have the whole day.

  Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!

  At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he used to be.

• (Can we date this quote?), Book of Composition, Scholar Publishing House (→ISBN), page 110:

  Many go about their life without anything to cover their bodies. The poors have no education and entertainment. Their life is miserable and full of pain. The life of a poor is that of a struggle for survival.