penury

How to use penury in a sentence

But to herself Jess Morse thought: And it would mean the difference, for mother and me, between penury and independence!

Notwithstanding her popularity and patronage, she died in France in great obscurity and penury.

Hunger and penury had carved lines as easy to read in her face as the traces of asceticism and fear.

Hundreds of families were burned out, and reduced from opulence, or at least competency, to penury.

THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

The towns of the old world have alternations of penury and affluence.

In consequence we hear a good many complaints of penury, all through his three years at Cambridge, 1511 to 1514.

But it would mean all the difference between penury and dread of the poorhouse on the one hand and safety on the other to David.

DOMINIE DEANELLIS PARKER BUTLER

It is not enough to-day to paint the gay impropriety of models and the devil-may-care penury of lighthearted artists.

Imagine a person walking in a garret from absolute penury to find himself a millionaire.

THE BEACH OF DREAMSH. DE VERE STACPOOLE

Thus died Mr. Elwes, the most perfect model of human penury which has been presented to the public for a long series of years.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985