POOR in Classic Quotes

1  This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for some time without interrupting it.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party

2  The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

3  It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

4  'You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle's Story

5  The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper

6  How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders.'

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole