"Here's the poor kitty," Courtney said, smoothing the cat's fur, petting it gently.

But, as we have said, d'Artagnan paid no attention to this persistence of poor Kitty.

Jealousy gnawed his heart; and he suffered almost as much as poor Kitty, who at that very moment was crying in the next chamber.

Instinct made poor Kitty guess a part of what was to happen.

"I can't help thinking of poor Kitty."

When my mother told poor little Kitty that her father was dead, are you even more sorry than I am that I allowed it?

If it had been put by any other person, poor Kitty's absurd question might have met with a bitter reply.

"Oh, poor kitty, you still scratchin', I gotta do you again!"

Only poor Kitty, sitting at the breakfast table in her marabou-trimmed robe, can't please her man.

"Oh, poor kitty," she said, sitting in her spot and dropping her hand to the floor.