Thesaurus / penury
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But to herself Jess Morse thought: And it would mean the difference, for mother and me, between penury and independence!
THE GIRLS OF CENTRAL HIGH ON THE STAGEGERTRUDE W. MORRISONNotwithstanding her popularity and patronage, she died in France in great obscurity and penury.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLHunger and penury had carved lines as easy to read in her face as the traces of asceticism and fear.
AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERRORHONORE DE BALZACHundreds 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.
AMERICAN SKETCHESCHARLES WHIBLEYIn consequence we hear a good many complaints of penury, all through his three years at Cambridge, 1511 to 1514.
THE AGE OF ERASMUSP. S. ALLENBut 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 BUTLERIt is not enough to-day to paint the gay impropriety of models and the devil-may-care penury of lighthearted artists.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 147, AUGUST 12, 1914VARIOUSImagine a person walking in a garret from absolute penury to find himself a millionaire.
THE BEACH OF DREAMSH. DE VERE STACPOOLEThus died Mr. Elwes, the most perfect model of human penury which has been presented to the public for a long series of years.
PORTRAITS OF CURIOUS CHARACTERS IN LONDON, &C. &C.ANONYMOUSWORDS RELATED TO PENURY
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