penury

• From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.—This is an American British America is divided into many provinces, forming a large association, scattered along a coast 1500 miles extent and about 200 wide. —  Letters from an American Farmer
• The boy was then seventeen; old enough to know that from plenty his father was reduced to penury, and this because England, three thousand miles away, had interfered with the business arrangements of the Colony, and made unlawful a private banking scheme. —  Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3
• If they have no jobs and face penury, they will be ready if not eager to transfer their primary allegiance from the state to something else. —  Defense and the National Interest
• Look at the vital consequence they attached to the interest of education; at the taxes that in their penury, and while for the most part they still lived in huts, they imposed on themselves to found and to sustain the institution of the school! —  Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
• He came each day to her abode of penury, and his presence transformed it to a temple redolent with sweets, radiant with heaven's own light; he partook of her delirium. —  The Last Man

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