adjective
Example Sentences
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Though, puir body! she maybe was thinking o’ that too.”
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
In a short time, the puir woman cam to hersel.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
Ye may be married and awa lang afore she kens onything about it, puir thing.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
It's no often ye hear o' a puir penniless cratur like me refusin onything that wad save his stock o' three guid farthins.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
He was a puir thing, the driver explained, who went wrong only four years ago.
From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins
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