Which is good, since we are stony-broke ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Good News in the Fort] Reference
He's sure stony-broke, not being able to turn a card because of the marshal. From Wordnik.com. [The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock] Reference
Once I've put something on those -- I owe the hospital, the dentist, the clinic -- I'll be stony-broke again. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
So I resolved to acquire a dog, and bought one from a prospector, who was stony-broke and would have sold his soul for a drink. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
The stars, it must be said regretfully, in connection with so laudable an ambition, nearly always betrayed him, coming down with an unmistakably meteoric descent, stony-broke in the uttermost ends of the earth, with a strong inclination to bring the cause of that misfortune before the Consular Courts. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
And being stony-broke, made the best of it he could. From Wordnik.com. [Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir] Reference
"You never struck two such stony-broke cusses in yer life!". From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Cracksman] Reference
(He meant Fraser.) "And now I'll be as good as stony-broke for the next two years.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Gerrard] Reference
And me over there working thirteen and fourteen hours a day, and half the time stony-broke!. From Wordnik.com. [The Avenger] Reference
I had very little hope that she could ever be got to care, even if I could reconcile it with common decency to ask a girl to think of a stony-broke beggar like me. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend the Chauffeur] Reference
He came away from China stony-broke, picked up a few thousands in Singapore and then settled in Rangoon about twelve years ago -- and Rangoon has suited him down to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma] Reference
Then after 'im came my grandfather; he went to the law, and a sad mess he made of it -- went stony-broke and left my father without a sixpence; that is why mother didn't want me to go into livery. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Waters] Reference
"He being stony-broke likewise," said I. "Well, she had a run for her money, and here's good luck to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Drove the Car] Reference
I'm a stony-broke painter. From Wordnik.com. [4.50 From Paddington]
"I am stony-broke too," said Tom. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy] Reference
He's sure stony-broke, not being able to turn. From Wordnik.com. [A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West] Reference
And the King said, "Well, we are stony-broke.". From Wordnik.com. [The Glugs of Gosh] Reference
"In Engliss," he translated, "stony-broke.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lee Shore] Reference
“Oh, just a couple o’ stony-broke Paddylanders.”. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
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