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The "impecunious" deserter fared more hardly; and would, usually, be forced by hunger and thirst to emerge from his hiding place, while the steamer was on the outward voyage. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
He was a daisy of the chronic impecunious variety. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
He was merely a self-centered, impecunious, improvident. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Maximilian, however, remained impecunious and inefficient. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Rothschild would ask Spain to give me up, and to an impecunious. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
College has taken the form of Sweet Charity, and impecunious students of. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
The plot had been laid long since, in the old impecunious hardworking days. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
"When we are impecunious," says Mr. du Maurier, "we must needs be democratic.". From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
For a government as impecunious as Moscow's, these sums are simply unthinkable. From Wordnik.com. [Get Out The Geigor Counters] Reference
But when aspiring sycophants, members of the great mass of impecunious people of. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
But we never did it -- because, I think, although we were plucky, we were impecunious!. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
His entrance had snapped the tension between his impecunious step-nephew and the painter. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
In some places the imposition of a poll tax peacefully eliminated the impecunious freedman. From Wordnik.com. [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference
To the cards of to-day is appended, "No presents received," which is a relief to the impecunious. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Now, in your bursting conceit you think this impecunious fortune-hunter, Thode, is in love with you. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
"I'm the only niece of poor but impecunious relatives, and they expect me to do my best and marry well.". From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
"Now, let me see," the impecunious man demanded as he buttonholed an acquaintance, "do I owe you anything?". From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
He can't hamper himself by marriage with an impecunious musician who isn't able to pull wires and help him on. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
He was enormously rich and loaned his gold at exorbitant rates to the extravagant and impecunious Roman nobles. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Though tremendously in awe of the impecunious and futile Joel, Mary felt no sense of diffidence where the efficient. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
The bulldozers as a class are more impecunious and irresponsible than the negroes, and, unlike the negroes, they will not work. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
G.G. G.ady, an impecunious circus proprietor, found his colossal aggregation without a band wagon and no funds to purchase one. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
His aristocratic friends had temporarily deserted him, but the Hunts assisted him with the ready liberality of the impecunious. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The impecunious young man who marries a girl with a substantial check attached may very properly be said to have been checkmated. From Wordnik.com. [The New Pun Book] Reference
Leonard had grown up into one of those helpful, "handy" lads who sometimes are sent to be the salvation of impecunious households. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
He was always in impecunious circumstances despite his legal eloquence, but the lack of a balance at his banker's never troubled him. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
Well, it was a great chumming game well played -- played before a lot of men who were as avaricious as impecunious gamblers always are. From Wordnik.com. [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference
Blashkov of Moscow, she had been besieged by a handsome, impecunious young officer; and, instead of throwing him over for the wealthy young. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Space and nature and Jatupon whose only essence could be found here and, in part, within this impecunious stranger, were the only allure. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
As usual in somewhat similar cases, every impecunious player became desirous of immediately starting out upon the uncertain sea of theatricals. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
The consequence was that Michael O'Connor lived and died an impecunious man, whose only legacy to his children was the record of a virtuous life. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
The father, unlike the usual stern parent who repels impecunious musicians, gave his permission for their union, which took place soon after, in 1836. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Simeon Ponsonby -- the professor of botany at Harmouth -- had married when over forty the eldest daughter of a distinguished though impecunious family in his own college town. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
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