Meanings of poor colonel in English

In his perplexity and sorrow, the poor colonel was irritable and unjust.

We should to a certainty have been shot, as was the poor colonel.

The poor colonel, who was yet hardly able to stand, crawled back despairing.

The poor colonel knew that there was no use expostulating.

My poor colonel, you will arrive too late.

So they sent him home invalided, with a hundred francs out of the poor colonel's purse.

Who, without tears, can think of the hard fate of poor colonel Haynes and his family?

I'm only a poor colonel with a few medals given by my country for services that were appreciated.

We could never do too much for our poor colonel's lady; so pray, marm, don't talk of thanks.

At forty years of age he had married the daughter of a poor colonel who had been killed by the enemy.

The Christmas decorations, the jollity in the voices exchanging Christmas salutations, aggravated the poor colonel's sense of homelessness, and seemed to mock it.

Four or five men fell dead at once, and the poor colonel, who was next to me, was shot right through the head.

The poor colonel was somewhat relieved at hearing that his daughter was not ill-treated, and that her black maid was allowed to remain with her.

The poor Colonel found himself in the midst of painful subjects.

Poor Colonel McAllister never got over the blow to his hopes.

When we arrived I found poor Colonel Swalm, the Consul, waiting for me.