Definition
Limited ability.
In Context
- "The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."
- "Gibbie held her fast, and with all the ways in his poor power sought to comfort her."
- "Heavy as was her burden, not one feather's weight of it should he carry, if by any means in her poor power she could hold it from his back."
- ""The spirit of the Stern Fund will continue," he said. "It is beyond the poor power of lawyers to dissolve it.""