Sentence examples for a poor son from inspiring English sources

With his strong Indian facial features, Mr. Toledo was able to tap into the large urban population of mestizos, as people of mixed Indian-Spanish race are known, and offer himself as an example of what a poor son of a bricklayer and fishmonger can do with an education.

In them, Judge Sirica was both a poor boy, an immigrant's son, making good; and a man alone taking on the much larger forces of evil -- two of the favorite themes of American folklore.

God help any poor son-in-law she might have".

And framing his face, in red, are words that serve as an elegy not unlike the one F. Scott Fitzgerald had a nameless mourner offer at Jay Gatsby's funeral: "The poor son of a bitch".

Poor son of a bitch.

"Geithner, that poor son of a bitch," Axelrod told me.

"The poor son of a bitch," she murmured, quoting from Gatsby.

"He was already dead, the poor son of a biscuit eater," Dr. Sauer said, looking less morose than he had the last time we spoke.

Their only new idea is patently absurd: that the deposed Czar was no threat to the Bolsheviks, who therefore had a motive to let his poor son go.

In Deng's cautiously modernising China, he was too good to waste: the poor son of a post-office clerk who went to university at 16, was a full professor at 42, and was easily conversant with the latest scientific researches of the West.

We can't be sure, in the light of the past week, that his countless friends will not, like Gatsby's, attach to new buyers, to the point that someone, maybe the loyal Gove, will mutter "the poor son of a bitch".