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Meanings of poor folk in English
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Usage of poor folk in English
1
The poor folk rarely got it; they lived on rye or meal.
2
Nor did our merry blades play their pranks on poor folk alone.
3
But for that reason we are God's chosen people, we poor folk.
4
You know what machorka is?- acheaptobacco that the poor folk smoke.
5
God knows poor folk should not be set upon such dangerous adversaries!
6
They made no complaint, spoke no word; but poor folk know.
7
This part of the transtiberine district was inhabited by poor folk.
8
Such success would turn the heads of poor folk like us.
9
I have a duty towards those poor folk, and I dare not fail.
10
Think of these poor folk who surround you, who follow you.
11
But as you say, poor folk must shift as they can.'
12
These poor folk, they won't know what they are getting into.
13
The poor folk have even to forgo foreign travel and gatherings in hotels.
14
Honesty is all that poor folk have, and one must surely have something!
15
And the poor folk who did this were hanged, with some benefit of clergy.
16
Reading is not for poor folk like you and me.
This collocation consists of:
Poor folk through the time
Poor folk across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare