Lexicographical Neighbors of Poorlier
Literary usage of Poorlier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert.) by Henry William Herbert, Thomas Picton (1882)
"... and poorlier, 'till I warn't nothing much more nor skin and bone, when the
month of March come round ; and the doctors they all swore that I'd got a ..."
2. Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert.) by Henry William Herbert, Thomas Picton (1882)
"... and poorlier, 'till I warn't nothing much more nor skin and bone, when the
month of March come round ; and the doctors they all swore that I'd got a ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1886)
"I might think poorlier of you than I've a right to, if I did. When a rose is held
lower in the scale of natur' than a turnip, or the mastership in music is ..."
4. Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to His First Wife by Richard Wagner (1909)
"For the rest, I conclude from your letter that you haven't got poorlier ; though
it would have been more of a satisfaction if you had told me ..."
5. Delia Bacon: A Biographical Sketch by Theodore Bacon (1888)
"We are in our old way, except that my Wife is rather poorlier than in common
Winters (which are always unkind to her), and that I myself am sunk deeper than ..."
6. From the Land of the Shamrock by Jane Barlow (1900)
"... and since his death had lived even poorlier as lodge-keeper of a derelict
demesne on five shillings a week, eked out by knitting and poultry. ..."
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