He would have died in penury and obscurity had he limited himself to the work of barrel-making. From LearnThat.org.
Waylaid by want and penury is but a stranger wight!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
We'll be told that our penury is a necessary sacrifice to save the planet. From Wordnik.com. ["This Supreme Court is quite clearly the enemy of progressivism.... What is to be done?"] Reference
And our children's children, it's called penury at Hang On to Your Wallet!. From Wordnik.com. [Hang On to Your Wallet! The Government is About to Rescue Investors | This Can't Be Happening!] Reference
86Although Catherine and Mary were not exactly living in penury, their households reflected their demoted status. From Wordnik.com. [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference
I was young, and used to what might be called penury, and I well knew that I must seek my fortune in the world, and work hard. From Wordnik.com. [Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Others live in penury. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
Albe appeared he garbed in penury. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The mother now became reduced to the greatest penury. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Bilked customers may spend their final years in penury. From Wordnik.com. [Earth To Phil Gramm] Reference
The poor, illiterate youth thus reared in penury extreme. From Wordnik.com. [Home Lyrics] Reference
This antique cast always seems to promise ill-luck and penury. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
He waves all of this aside, claiming something close to penury. From Wordnik.com. [The Bush Family Franchise] Reference
My penury has again been relieved by Mr. S---- 's kind loan of £1. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
If there were no penury and no pain, what would become of fortitude?. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
What were the prospects before him but penury, want, misery, and woe!. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Plenty, as well as penury, can "freeze the genial currents of the soul.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
I am so accustomed to penury and debt that it sounds like a fairy story. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
Parliament, were followed by a long and patient endurance of penury and imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
That I may from the sale of my book receive an amount that will place me beyond penury. From Wordnik.com. [The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes] Reference
Lady Nairn and her daughter, Lady Clementina, were reduced to the utmost penury in Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
For a poor person, a health crisis is a sure way to debt penury and poverty for generations. From Wordnik.com. [Growth Is Not Enough] Reference
Ye see what might hae been a kin 'o' penury in a castle was the very extravagance o 'luxury in a camp. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
It was of these Count Victor spoke -- of their faith, their valiancies, their shifts of penury and pride. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
What right had any one man to such luxury, to such splendor, while others were born to penury and suffering?. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
To her own detriment, Bohemia and penury could attract her as surely and as frequently as heavily paid-for luxury. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Lord Malmesbury observes that even the Prince of Dessau's marriage, at which he was present, exhibited this penury. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
Many of them were unfortunate orphan boys, whom want compelled to work for bread -- the children of penury and lowly birth. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
His future life was a career of incessant toil and frequent penury, much alleviated, however, by the invocation of the muse. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Although the top five or so assassination authors have made money, most persist in the face of penury -- or other sacrifices. From Wordnik.com. [True Disbelievers] Reference
"Chill penury," forced upon him by the state of his financial affairs, had much to do with his cynical and acrimonious spirit. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
But the fun was quickly spoiled by the tug of war between his Georgia populism on one hand and his native penury on the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Austerity] Reference
His wants are few, and he is able to cover a life of hardship and penury with the flowers of melody and the foam of unceasing mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Garibaldi could not afford even the priest's marriage fees for his life was always one of penury, so he gave him an old silver watch. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
This made a divorce, which might have cast her back to the relative penury of her family's 13,000-acre estate, politically untenable. From Wordnik.com. [Throne Out] Reference
We have known men who have been suddenly reduced from affluence to penury by misfortunes, which they could neither foresee nor prevent. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
The assistance which Cromwell had at hand, lay in the little band of courtiers who hung in penury, and vexation of heart, round Charles II. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
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