Now she felt as if someone had tried to put her skull back together again and had done a miserably poor job of it.

In this generation there was no Janko, or anything distinctive about the miserably poor family that occupied the cottage.

Twenty or 30 percent of the Turkana will become miserably poor.

Despite some mildly encouraging growth figures (3.5% in 1992), Bolivia is still miserably poor.

Oh, she was a miserably poor liar, she thought.

He belongs to the miserably poor island of Taenga, yet his father's house was always well supplied.

Nigeria, like much of Africa, ought to be rich but is miserably poor.

The c.1800 manuscript also noted that this family, prior to its extinction, became miserably poor.

Miserably poor, he had to abandon Heleneborg in 1767.

But for the miserably poor, the landscape of shredded earth and dead trees is a strange realm of plenty.