More indigent

Usage examples of poorer.

The haute cuisine of the better-off tended towards the Chinese and was eaten with chopsticks where the poorer classes used a spoon.

But I felt unable to play the pauper, my father having taught me that the poorer you appear, the poorer you become.

The poorer ones, naturally, had the worst of the cells and were forced to eat food which was barely adequate for keeping body and soul together.

I could think of no other who might assist: I have never had wealthy friends and at that time most of my acquaintance were poorer even than I.

I know the poorer quarters of Baghdad with an embarrassing familiarity, for when my story begins, I am but a poor porter, carrying goods from one quarter of our magnificent city to another for whatever coin or barter might be had.

Perhaps, I considered, there were some advantages to being poorer than poor.

Many in the poorer section of our magnificent city had often made disparaging comments upon my being the namesake of mighty Sinbad the traveler.

We have an actual porter in our midst, who can tell us of the brighter moments among the poorer classes.

The poorer classes travelled on foot, as at the north, but drew after them carts with all their household effects.

That valley, so rapidly exploited of its resources that it has grown ages poorer, is yet virile, youthful in its faults and its achievements.

At the time appointed nearly three hundred persons assembled, mostly of the poorer class.

When he had done, I felt something press on my mind towards the poorer classes present, who I was sure could not understand English: so I stepped down from the pulpit, and placing myself by the minister, requested he would render for me a few sentences as literally as he could.

Like you, too, they devote considerable attention to the improvement of schools, and the improvement of the temporal condition of the poorer classes among whom they labor.

Twelve young men of the poorer class, who have offered themselves from a sense of duty to become missionaries, are there taught various languages, and retained until some field of labor opens for them to which they feel bound.

They harvested an annual crop from the best land and left poorer land fallow every second or third year.