Before you started work were the family fairly poorly off then?

Further, it seemed likely the merchant was not as poorly off as might have been supposed.

The animals could sustain themselves poorly off the vegetation.

Although the family was poorly off itself during the war, they regularly invited homeless people into their house for oatmeal soup.

To dream of carving a fowl, indicates you will be poorly off in a worldly way.

I'm poorly off, ma'am; but if you are knitting these for me, I shall certainly start on a firm foundation."

Great undertakings come poorly off with paltry means."

You'd be just as poorly off."

No, now he knows what our strengths are, what our capacities consist of and how poorly off we are."

She does not approve of this Bohemian sculptor, who lives poorly off his occasional commissions, as a suitable match for Olga.

"If the Russians are so poorly off, as everyone says, then let me ask you: Why do they control most of the businesses in Riga, and have the biggest apartments?"

In such a system, it is extemely unlikely we will have any kind of meritocracy in the near future, good news for the rich, bad news for the moderately or poorly off.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

'She is quite right: the women will never fight for shorter hours and minimum wages, while there are so many girls so poorly off that they'll take any work, however miserable . . .' I was not listening.

If the Americans deliver only to the most poorly off 1.5 or so million Somalis and forget the rest of the population, particularly the urban and displaced population of Mogadishu, resentment of the Americans could soon surface.

For instance, even the most poorly off humans on Aurora are better off than Earth's aristocrats, but they are dispossessed with respect to Aurora's aristocrats, and it is with the masters of their own world that they compare themselves.