indigence

• And to add insult to his indigence, the poor boy is told that the greatest gift he can hope for is friendship. —  FSFApril2005
• I do not come here to ask your favors, such as cupidity would covet, or even such as would relieve indigence--Marat's widow needs no more than a tomb Before arriving at that happy termination to my existence, however I come to ask that justice may be done in respect to the reports recently put forth in this body against the memory of at once the most intrepid and the most outraged defender of the people Simonne Evrard Marat, to the Convention Illustration: JEAN PAUL MARAT The French Revolution traces a lineal descent direct from Voltaire and Jean Jacques Rousseau. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
• My purs and I be callyd to the lure Off indigence, our stuff leyd in morgage; But ye, my lord, may al our soor recure, With a receyt of plate, and of coignage Nat sugre plate maad by thappotecarye, Plate of briht metal yevith a mery sone, In Boklerys bury is noon such letuary; Gold is a cordial, gladdest confeccione, Ageyn etiques of oold consumpcione, Auru' potabile, for folk ferre ronne in age, In quynt essence best restauracione, With silver plate, enprentyd with coignage O seely bille! —  A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
• It was curious to see him, out of his very deformity, indigence, and houselessness, so cheerily endured, raising mirth in some of that crowd, whose own purses, hearths, hearts, all their possessions, sound limbs included, could not make gay What is your name, old boy?" —  The Confidence-Man
• The poverty of the frontier, where all are engaged in a common struggle, and where a common sympathy and hearty co-operation lighten the burdens of each, is a very different poverty, different in kind, different in influence and effect, from that conscious and humiliating indigence which is every day forced to contrast itself with neighboring wealth on which it feels a sense of grinding dependence. —  Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail

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