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The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

`` Yes, George, but I ain't got poor old Pat's body yet.

She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!

The excitement over Brandon's bizarre death abated and Madame Lalaurie's stock soared when she resumed her self-imposed chores of visiting the poor and bringing cakes and comfort to destitute patients in the county hospital.

`` I'm just a poor ex-jazz man, name of -- uh -- Boyd Smith ''.

The South's antipathy to Northern civilization includes such charges as poor manners, harsh accents, lack of appreciation of the arts of living like gastronomy and the use of leisure.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

Well, after everybody has followed the New England pattern of segregating one's children into private schools, only the poor folks are left.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

To us and to every nation of the Free World, rich or poor, these qualities are necessary today as never before if we are to march together to greater security, prosperity and peace.

For a freshman Congressman to read political Lessons to graybeard Democrats was poor policy for one who needed to make friends.

I wouldn't hear of it because it meant giving up the `` line '', though I realized I was in poor shape physically.

I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.

He advised the poor woman not to appear in court as what she was charged with was not in violation of law.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

He knew all about the appeal of a black shirt and jackboots to a poor, southern, peasant boy.

To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

The new version states: `` How blest are those who know that they are poor ; ;

There are many possibilities, including poor circulation, a variety of neurological conditions, and functional disorders.

The only hope which good teachers have for being paid their due is to stop dragging the dead weight of poor teachers up the economic ladder with them.

He had not because he was both poor and ambitious.

Dirty Reactionary bastards comin down here in the night and bumpin off ol Slater and those other poor bastards.

How could the rich, for whom life was made so simple, ever understand the subterfuges, the lies, the frauds, the errors, sins and even crimes to which the poor were driven in their efforts to overcome the great advantages the rich had in the race of life??