poor devil

"I recollect this, because the poor devil's death was accompanied by a singular incident."

"Your sailors began to haze the poor devil as soon as he came aboard."

Then all the men spoke to one another something after this fashion, "The drum-horse hasn't hung over the mantelpiece since'67." "How does he know?" "Mildred, go and speak to him again." "Colonel, what are you going to do?" "Oh, dry up, and give the poor devil a chance to pull himself together." "It isn't possible anyhow.

Poor devil! I wonder whether he got rid of that friend of his.

When he said, "Poor devil!" she asked, with playful curiosity--

"Planchet," said D'Artagnan, "I commit the corpse of this poor devil to your care.

The multitude was prodigious and far-reaching; and yet we fifteen poor devils hadn't a friend in it.

He did not see the sneer of contempt which passed all round the room, from the first clerk to the articled gents, from the articled gents to the ragged writers and white-faced runners, in clothes too tight for them, as he sate there tapping his boot with his cane, and thinking what a parcel of miserable poor devils these were.

True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no good blood in their veins.

Poor devil! He is always blamed for things the priests cannot understand.

One wag tweeted: "I'm delighted to see Michael O' Leary winning, he needs the few quid the poor devil."

One wag tweeted: "I'm delighted to see Michael O'Leary winning, he needs the few quid the poor devil."

How about making sure every poor devil standing trial is wearing a coat and tie, by local bar associations raising money for Goodwill and The Salvation Army?