"Poor person" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had passed; and, after having been reduced to the uttermost want, she became a beggar, and died at last upon the public highway, near Kyoto. As it was thought shameful to bury her in the foul rags found upon her, some poor person gave a wornout summer-robe (katabira) to wrap her body in; and she was interred near Arashiyama at a spot still pointed out to travellers as the "Place ...
— In Ghostly Japan • Lafcadio Hearn
... the day when the god came, and they turned him away for that his robe was poor, and his feet were bare;—because of that day, no poor person is turned hungry from the door of that people. And the old men say this is because the god may come any day from the South, and may come again as ...
— The Flute of the Gods • Marah Ellis Ryan
... the watch!" repeated his wife. "How? where? But you had not the watch with you? You have not given it back? Not without——" and the little woman hesitated; her husband seemed so pleased, so excited. "If possibly it is a poor person," she reflected, "Bernard is quite capable of giving it back with delight for nothing but a word of thanks! Yet what would not forty, nay, even fifty francs be to us just now." Still she did not like to say anything to damp his pleasure. But he read her misgiving—he had ...
— A Christmas Posy • Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth
... knocked out of us in the attempt, for, see you, Mark, a man with a hole in his head is a precious poor person, and, of course, you are prepared either way, success or the ...
— The Iron Pirate - A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea • Max Pemberton
... a committee is appointed for each poor person. Thus, for example, two women are appointed to attend to the wants and comfort of one ...
— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson
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