Poor has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich. | |
| 2. | We are soldiers in France, and we are citizens. Another reason to be proud, to be a citizen! For the poor, this consists in sustaining and preserving the wealthy in their power and their idleness. The poor must work there, before the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the wealthy and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. That is one of the good effects of the Revolution. | |
| 3. | Poor mountain people, poor students, poor young people, your enemies of tomorrow will be worse than those of yesterday. | |
| 4. | Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits. | |
| 5. | His family was poor, and poor people did not often hear music. | |
| 6. | There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it. | |
| 7. | Isn't it amazing how one is poor though rich, while the other is rich though poor? | |
| 8. | Tom believes that the rich deserve to be rich and that the poor deserve to be poor. | |
| 9. | When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. | |
| 10. | If I give the poor something to eat, then they call me a saint. If I ask why the poor have nothing to eat, then they call me a communist. |