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Usage of poor john in English

This night I had half a 100 poor Jack-[The" poor john" is a hake salted and dried. 
 Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 14: January/February 1661-62 

Indeed, poor John Paul's perturbation amused me more than the gentleman's anecdotes. 
 Richard Carvel — Volume 04 

But the effect of the coming scenes upon poor John Kenneby was terrible. 
 Orley Farm 

Poor John saw he had been a simpleton himself and departed in silence. 
 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2... 

Poor John Fulton showed little worldly wisdom in making that prohibition. 
 We Three 

Poor John battled hard, but the spirits nearly always got the upper hand. 
 The Life of John Clare 

Poor John laughed heartily, till the tears rolled down his cheeks. 
 "My Novel" — Volume 04 

Poor John was, at the same time, body-servant, jockey, and coachman. 
 Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel 

Poor John Kenneby had more-much more, on his hands than this dreadful trial. 
 Orley Farm 

Poor John Clare, it will be recollected, died in a workhouse.-E. 
 The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 

Ah, how frankly, how trustily, how bravely he lied, poor John! 
 Roundabout Papers 

Thenceforward she desisted and left poor John Throckmorton in peace. 
 Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography 

Poor John, or the fool of the family, Mrs. Milvain hastened to inform them. 
 Night and Day 

Console thyself, poor John; thou alone hast been my mate. 
 Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist 

Poor John Varley-welook with interest at his last work. 
 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 

You know what poor John has gone through, though there was no inferiority there. 
 Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife 

Meanings of poor john in English