destitute

• “The number of destitute is greatly reduced, there is strong national pride, and the general populace is VERY optimistic about where they are going.”

  Sound Politics: "Peak Oil" Despair Versus Energy Innovation

• “But men scarcely take pleasure at all in these things, at least those whom we call destitute of self-control do not, but only in the actual enjoyment which arises entirely from the sense of Touch, whether in eating or in drinking, or in grosser lusts.”

  Ethics

• “Charlottesville to open a pay school for colored pupils, but had not been successful, and having used all her money was in destitute circumstances so she came to us for aid and sympathy.”

  Reminiscences of Philena Carkin

• “As they rode home they passed a row of almshouses that Gifford had built and endowed for the widows of small Catholic tradesmen who had been left in destitute circumstances.”

  Zoe: The History of Two Lives

• “Nor is even the first heroine of the name destitute of a certain strange beauty in her fierceness, or of honesty in the midst of perverted passion and passionate perversity.”

  Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells

• “They are classified as "destitute", a condition designed to deter others from seeking asylum in Britain.”

  The Guardian World News

• “The house was large and old, the furniture not much less ancient, the situation dreary, the roads everywhere bad, the soil a stiff clay, wet and dirty, except in the midst of summer, the country round it disagreeable, and in short, destitute of every thing that could afford any satisfaction to Mrs”

  A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue

• “But as the faith, which is not founded on revelation, must remain destitute of any firm assurance, the disciple of Plato imprudently relapsed into the habits of vulgar superstition; and the popular and philosophic notion of the Deity seems to have been confounded in the practice, the writings, and even in the mind of Julian.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “Each woman and each man matters, even a drunk who dies destitute, which is what tragically happens to the boys 'father, Charlie.”

  The Huffington Post: Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Touching Home

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