poor fish

But editors, poor fish, are impotent in this high and lasting pleasure; they have lost the power to spend their money for books.

Here indeed was a lack of freedom and no mistake, for the poor fish as well as for herself!

The poor fish, not quite dead, writhed on the live coals, and the heat caused a great blister to swell out upon its side.

It is a very poor fish at best, and as the poor we have always with us, we will never be rid of it.

If the poor fish would have his teeth X-rayed, I'll bet nine and a half cents he'd find an abscess there.