His main difficulty would be the heavy outlay; "impecuniosity" to him would represent the scurvy and potted cat of the old Arctic voyager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference

It simply shows our 'impecuniosity' to sit here and tell stories, when we ought to finish our meal and make room for others. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Hus'ling] Reference

Donald's test of impecuniosity could not be gainsaid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference

Work -- (Of right hand) prosperity; (of left hand) impecuniosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

He was told too that Lady Augustus was much harassed by impecuniosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Senator] Reference

That this meeting deplores the impecuniosity which prevents the said Bennett from attending a Barber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Harrison, in addition to his impecuniosity, had other peculiarities of which vanity was not the least.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

One who does anatomical studies of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues. impecuniosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

The impecuniosity of American railways, besides causing the bad results which we have described, has had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference

Confine crime there and then plead impecuniosity when it comes to managing crime there (in the townships).    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

He was in his normal condition of impecuniosity, and Henry was prepared to provide a loan to help him in a.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

Poor Gertrude had on that morning been violently persecuted by a lecture as to Frank Houston's impecuniosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayala's Angel] Reference

It is curious to notice how his impecuniosity reduced him to regard every goal of his ambition as having merely a cash value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

And so you see that a doubling of impecuniosity was quite impossible, for poverty rolls up fast in a geometrical progression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884] Reference

Its diminutive proportions bespoke either the relative impecuniosity of the local government or the becoming modesty of its Landgrave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission to Moulokin]

His main difficulty would be the heavy outlay; “impecuniosity” to him would represent the scurvy and potted cat of the old Arctic voyager.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

He, the impecunious one, — the one whose impecuniosity extended to the absolute want of credit, — sat silent, stroking his heavy moustache.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way We Live Now] Reference

Lousteau paid the cabman, giving him three francs — a piece of prodigality following upon such impecuniosity astonishing Lucien more than a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference

Half a century ago those authors had to migrate or go hungry, standing as they did between the devil of impecuniosity and the deep sea of emigration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada Finds Her Voice] Reference

Few indeed were the students who lived in the Latin Quarter during the last twelve years of the Restoration and did not frequent that temple sacred to hunger and impecuniosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference

"I drift in ridiculous impecuniosity without a sou.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions] Reference

"Well, I have more brains than impecuniosity, anyhow.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Hus'ling] Reference

Blake, blissfully forgetful of that state of impecuniosity from which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uninhabited House] Reference

When last met, you suffered from the impecuniosity of a churched mouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference

Even impecuniosity, though inconvenient, would not have made him lose caste.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

Boulogne, Calais, Dieppe, they all hint at impecuniosity and enforced exile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Calf] Reference

It was a season of impecuniosity with him, and his mood was anything but cheerful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

I had a second experience of the disadvantages of impecuniosity before I reached London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference

The result was that I spent certain miserable days in a state of almost complete impecuniosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885] Reference

"If the majority of people had more brains and less impecuniosity they would be better off in this world.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years of Hus'ling] Reference

"And the family impecuniosity being a fact well established in the family mind," began Phil, with composure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vagabondia 1884] Reference

Blake, through continued impecuniosity, lost all shame of it in time; lost, too, his self-respect and his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales from Bohemia] Reference

Always suffering from impecuniosity, the Burtons were perpetually revolving schemes for increasing their income.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

Sadi's impecuniosity was no new experience, but this last demand was interesting in view of possible contingencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black] Reference

He was poorly paid, and often reduced to abject poverty by lack of engagements, or by the impecuniosity of managers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honor of the Name] Reference

Not far from the limit of impecuniosity was Edison himself, as he landed in Boston in 1868 after this wintry ordeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

He acquired a sort of parsimony also, in which acquisition he was helped by one or two phases of absolute impecuniosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference

Porter knew all this quite well; also that in spite of Mike's chronic impecuniosity he was honest, and true as steel to a benefactor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoroughbreds] Reference

Aphra, whose letters give a vivid picture of the spy's life with its risks and impecuniosity, addresses herself to two correspondents, Tom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I] Reference