School gave him, and his youthful days were hard and poverty-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [Denmark] Reference
European Union countries and even poverty-stricken Greece passed us up. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Ross: Republicans: What's Wrong With Being Sweden?] Reference
"Yes, my child, your father must die here in his poverty-stricken home.". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
He should not wander there so poverty-stricken and neglected, without her. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
"What makes you think Miss Blake's as poverty-stricken as that?" she asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
Free meals or cent meals for poverty-stricken school children are not Socialism. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
Two strange women had come their way, women who were poverty-stricken and homeless. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
They also are fighting under the poetic flag, and ours is a poverty-stricken regiment. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I am so poverty-stricken now I wash my own pocket-handkerchiefs, guimpes, and blouses!. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
"And so early, too, in your poverty-stricken career, I can sympathize with you," said Laura. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
It's oil-rich, but with little trickle-down benefit to a largely poverty-stricken population. From Wordnik.com. [Femi Kuti: 'Live At The Shrine'] Reference
An unpaid army with unsheathed swords clamored around a poverty-stricken and helpless Congress. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
His attention was soon directed towards the poverty-stricken and helpless people all around him. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
The cliched view of Russia is of a poverty-stricken giant swaggering around with a gold watch on its wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Too Much Money] Reference
And when you add the faces of abandoned, poverty-stricken children to the picture, it seems particularly cruel. From Wordnik.com. [Children Are Not Bling] Reference
Why need we be poverty-stricken in spirit, bereft of everything that makes struggle sweet and suffering endurable?. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
This hut was not so poverty-stricken as many others she had seen; at least, there were two windows and a front door. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
So long I have journeyed a poverty-stricken fugitive seeking shelter, and know rest only in the hollow of your hands. From Wordnik.com. [Ink Darkly the Painted Seasons a1 s01-2] Reference
He later made much of his poverty-stricken childhood, far too much if other members of his family were to be believed. From Wordnik.com. [David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley] Reference
It had a desolate and poverty-stricken look -- that little room -- but still was neatly arranged and tidy in every part. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Marcia Lowe would never press dishonour upon them all -- and the money was no lure to the proud, poverty-stricken woman. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Did any one of her friends consider her so poverty-stricken that it was necessary to send her money in this anonymous fashion?. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World] Reference
But in this poverty-stricken part of China, economic imperatives trumped everything, and ultimately exacerbated this disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Rains Punish China's Geologically Vulnerable Areas] Reference
For instance, when the children reported the case of the poverty-stricken Ryans, Miss Eunice set her "tea-party" to work to make. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
"However, archeologists live in a poverty-stricken world and we have to use what labor we can get to gain information," he says. From Wordnik.com. [DIGGING FOR TREASURE] Reference
What often happens in poverty-stricken families is a hunger-bingeing cycle that follows the economic conditions in the household. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Hyman, MD: The Link Between Poverty, Obesity and Diabetes] Reference
With 1.3 million poverty-stricken Palestinians and no natural resources, Beilin says, Gaza was never a political asset to begin with. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye Gaza] Reference
It is disconcerting to know that the desire of poverty-stricken immigrants for freedom and a better life has led to their enslavement. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Ethiopia's poverty-stricken economy is based on agriculture, accounting for half of GDP, 60\% of exports, and 80\% of total employment. From Wordnik.com. [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference
In many places, there's no stigma associated with being a devadasi -- in fact, it's a respectable solution for poverty-stricken Dalits. From Wordnik.com. [Becoming A 'Servant Of God'] Reference
Best estimates suggest that there are perhaps “several hundred” al-Qaeda members in poverty-stricken, desertifying, strife-torn Yemen. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Engelhardt: The American Way of War Quiz] Reference
Ethiopia's poverty-stricken economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for half of GDP, 60\% of exports, and 80\% of total employment. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
The widow followed; her dress was poverty-stricken but very neat, and upon her face was a look of patient endurance, indescribably touching. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Every hole in those dilapidated buildings swarmed with a family; every corner of the leaky garrets and damp cellars was full of poverty-stricken life. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
When evicted from her poverty-stricken home by the bailiff, her maid at first conveyed her to a hospital in the rue de Chaillot, but there payment was demanded in advance. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
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