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Sicilian dialect is filled with Arabic words like mischinu (taken from the Arabic word miskin), which means a poor person.

In other words, Chris Christie is a fat man in an even deeper sense than the sense in which a poor person is poor.

A wolf that had carried away a poor person's pig, was forced by the holy man to bring back another animal of equal value.

She was still silent, but another woman hoped that a gentleman would not be hard on a poor person.

Fortunately the rain held off to-night, else many a poor person would suffer for his debts!

Well, there are funny things about being poor, Caroline; but I suppose it takes a poor person to appreciate them.

Norah spread out her hands in an odd little gesture: "I am sorry, but I am just a plain poor person."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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