The UN volunteers were moved with pity at the indigence of the people begging food on the streets. From LearnThat.org.
Their indigence appalled him. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is the deformity of vice in the rags of indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes] Reference
Repaired be by bloodshed, for indigence safely can venture. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
So what does this juxtaposition of affluence and indigence mean?. From Wordnik.com. [For Richer, For Poorer] Reference
We also know that the indigence policy has not worked that well. From Wordnik.com. [CANDIDATE MAYOR: AMOS MASONDO AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS LAUNCH ORLANDO STADIUM] Reference
France, was reduced by a series of lawsuits to extreme indigence, accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
You are better at home, under no compulsion to act dishonorably from indigence. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He was abundantly charitable, and could not resist the solicitations of indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
The conditions referred to are affluence and indigence, as explained by Nilakantha. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
In this context, address all indigence, especially the high numbers of women so affected. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Nation Address 2007] Reference
Gauls, rendered daring through indigence, seized upon this district of uncertain property. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
In this context, address all indigence, especially the high numbers of women so affected. From Wordnik.com. [SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION] Reference
The telescope does good service under the dome; but it is a sign of the indigence of the academy. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886.] Reference
He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his intreaty, shall suffer indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
He that giveth to the poor shall not want: he that despiseth his entreaty, shall suffer indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Amongst the working and lower classes the most frightful indigence and destitution were experienced. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
The objection is without foundation, for indigence and liberty, never resided together in the same hovel or hut. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery] Reference
Thirdly, when he is in presence of extreme indigence in an individual, or great need on the part of the common weal. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
He did not say so, but to him the prosperity of the British manufacturer was bound up in the indigence of the operative. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
Whereupon all just men, including the god's benefactor, are made rich and prosperous, and the unjust reduced to indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
What do you make of the family already raking in over a quarter million dollars, then trying to claim indigence, poor-mouthing?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2009] Reference
He bestowed a considerable part of his income in ministering to pressing indigence, and relieving the wants of private distress. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
She felt again as if suddenly deprived of all the Divine gifts and favours, and reduced to the very extreme of spiritual indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
Their government wants to buy the grain and distribute it to the population, nearly half of which has been reduced to total indigence. From Wordnik.com. ['The Kurds Are Suffering'] Reference
There was also a "Superannuation Fund" for the relief of those Sisters who should, after long service, fall into indigence or ill-health. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
Outwardly indeed they led a life of poverty and toil for Christ's sake, but the love of the heavenly life made sweet the present indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes] Reference
Many of them do not dread this punishment, but will seek to deserve it by more criminal conditions than enforced indigence and helpless hunger. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It is believed that among the survivors there are some not provided for by existing laws, who are reduced to indigence and even to real distress. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Her means are exhausted in elegant fancies, or have been taken away by some unexpected misfortune, and now she has fallen from luxury to indigence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Carolina, by a number of Palatines harassed in Germany by the calamities of a tedious war, and reduced to circumstances of great indigence and misery. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
"New Whig Guide," &c., &c., who, from having been considered one of the first wits of his day, is now reduced to a state of unforeseen comic indigence. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference
Albany in obscurity and indigence owing to her husband being a drunken idle fellow, that Lavine was living in a tavern with a man of the name of Broomly. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The indigent children were first fed and then insulted by a plethoric gentleman, who addressed to them a long discourse on indigence and the various duties that it entailed. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
They are both now dead -- their property has entirely passed into other hands, and the members of their families who still remain in this country are in comparative indigence. From Wordnik.com. [A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America] Reference
This is so evident, that nature suggests the use according to the indigence of the persons who use this medicine, without being prepossessed with the force of fashion or custom. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
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