Meanings of sorry jade in English

Faber rides his hobby well, but the brute is a sorry jade.

So the Devil gave him that sorry jade.

What art thou stumbling for, sorry jade?

Why stumblest thou, sorry jade?

The waiting-woman then mounting Falada, and the Princess the sorry jade, they journeyed on till they reached the royal castle.

A sorry jade enow!

In six weeks he had returned penniless, having substituted for his roadster a sorry jade, to which he gave the contemptuous name of Fiddleback.

I then hired a horse and a guide, and proceeded with Tom Rockets only as my companion, mounted on rather a sorry jade, towards Hampton.

Overbeck, Ingres, Flandrin-allsorry jades harnessed willy-nillyto religious tasks by commissions from the pious.

Well, grandfather, a sorry set they look, and sorry jades they ride to ravage our lands!