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Poor people   /pur pˈipəl/   Listen
Poor people

noun
1.
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group).  Synonym: poor.






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"Poor people" Quotes from Famous Books



... from bonnie Scotia, or busy Hull, fresh from the recollection of his land and home, no doubt shudders at the comparative misery and barbarity of these poor people; but those who have seen the degraded Bushmen or Hottentots of South Africa, the miserable Patanies of Malayia, the Fuegians or Australians of our southern hemisphere, and remember the comparative blessings ...
— Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; • Sherard Osborn

... Sunday-school and Publishing Society in different parts of the land. It has always been the policy of the Association, as our friends know, to present the other Congregational Societies in our missions, and distribute the small gifts which it is possible for these poor people to give, among the different societies and not absorb it all in the Association. These Indian boys had not money to give to the Sunday-school Society, but they saw a premium offered for killing gophers. ...
— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 • Various

... of Hudson's Straits. The Muskigons are by no means a warlike race; on the contrary, they are naturally timid, and only plucked up courage to make war on their northern neighbours in consequence of these poor people being destitute of firearms, while themselves were supplied with guns and ammunition by the fur-traders. The Esquimaux, however, are much superior to the Muskigon Indians physically, and would have held their adversaries in light esteem had they met on ...
— Ungava • R.M. Ballantyne

... him," said Olga. "I can't understand it. The poor people like him too in a way. Isn't it odd? They seem to have such ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell

... we should think, call sinners to repentance, and comfort mourners, and establish believers, and help their faith. But, alas! this is all in vain. This Reverend Sir might as well have stayed at his loom or plough, as take the poor people's money for watching over their souls, when all from first to last was settled by an ...
— A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism • Thomas Taylor


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