592 examples of poorly in sentences

O'Flynn, poorly disguising his delight in a scrimmage, had been shouting: "Ye'll spoil the Blow-Out, ye meddlin' jackass!

Pap's poorly again, and I'm obliged to put the late supper on the table for them thar galsthe night shift's done eat and gone.

Had Mrs. Branning been living in her own poorly-furnished house, Mr. Kinloch would hardly have thought of going to seek her.

The canons were originally, of course, resident, but the chapter had always been poorly endowed, and as time went on residence was actually discouraged.

Dear P.,I am so poorly.

Oh, I am so poorly!

They had a love of gain, which under a better system would have made them hardworking; but it took ten serfs to do, languidly and poorly, what two free men in America would do quickly and well.

" The gentlemen with the tall hats bit their lips and showed signs of poorly suppressed agitation.

As the damsel was departing from the court, Balin called to her and said: "Fair maid, I beg you to let me try to draw the sword, for though I am poorly clad I feel in my heart that I am as good as many who have tried,

The soil improved around, the mansion neat, And neither poorly low, nor idly great: It seem'd to speak its master's turn of mind, Content, and not for praise, but virtue kind.

On the rough walls there were also large sconces of burnished silver but poorly filled with tallow candles.

A pleasing custom it is and thrifty withal, and one that has saved many a one but poorly prepared for the European robber in uniform the moist and unpleasant task of swimming home.

she fared rather poorly at home, and did so seem to enjoy everything.

We both were old, And keen the cold; While poorly housed we found us; And by the blast That, whistling, passed, The snows were sifted round us.

The same season Preble sailed into the Mediterranean, with the Constitution, "a bunch of pine boards," as she was then called in derision, poorly fitted out, and half-manned; and with three other vessels in no better condition.

Generally at the North and wholly at the South their children were debarred from the white schools and poorly provided with schools of their own.

The ponies went poorly on the first march, when there was little or no wind and a high temperature.

I fear that Oates at least will weather such an event very poorly.

"Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts,they poorly stick at words.

But the activity of the press produced a swarm of poorly-paid hack-writers, penny-a-liners, who lived from hand to mouth and did small literary jobs to order.

Mr. Justice Harbottle saw that the man was by no means poorly dressed, and his manner that of a gentleman.

But it seems hard that all this should be so because I am a widow,and because I am alone,and because I am poorly clothed.' As she said this there were tears in her eyes, true ones, and something of the sound of a broken sob in her voice.

There is little Georgette, the sick child that Lucy nurses in the Pensionnat: "Little Georgette still piped her plaintive wail, appealing to me by her familiar term, 'Minnie, Minnie, me very poorly!'

Fortunately for my radiator, the lamp-post into which he steered me was poorly rooted.

We wandered into a spot where there wuz old-fashioned flowers, such as grow in the green meadows and hedges of old England, and there wuz some old wimmen wrinkled and gray, poorly clad, lookin' at them daisies and cow-slips and laughin' and cryin' over 'em.

592 examples of  poorly  in sentences