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The sounds and stinks of a city would be enough to impover-ish her soul.

Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

Any prosperity that resulted from industry could therefore benefit only the privileged few — the new aristocracy of wealth — at the expense of the many, who would remain at least as impover - ished as ever.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968

This, they faid, was the reafon that an impoft could not now be obtained, and that the whole burden of taxes was laid on the hufbandman, and the laborer, who had been greatly impover - ifhed by the late war.

The History of New-Hampshire. Volume II.: Comprehending the Events of of Seventy Five Years ... 1791

A PETITION of the town of Deerfield within the county of Hamp - shire, being the utmost frontier of that county, and much impover - ished by the warr, was read, with the vote of the house of representa - tives thereupon, and, a concurrance therewith, —

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