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destitution
1. out around him, pinning down the mask of destitution over the
2. Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, and they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendor; And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, their spirits shall be thrown into the furnace of fire
3. Not very far from all that opulence, all that luxury and richness, another modern reality stands out as well: the devastating poverty and destitution of squatters with their cardboard-huts along the railroad tracks or the underpass of the several highways
4. Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom and they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendor; And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution their spirits shall be thrown into the furnace of fire
5. training, and in spite of the destitution she saw in her many
6. The Fabian Society’s Sidney Webb hired Clement Attlee in 1909 to work for the National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution, a group Mr
7. To be filled with God is to be overflowing in love at all times, and to teach others the destitution of a God-less life!
8. Strangely enough, she seemed almost cheerful at the thought that we might be within reach of destitution, and began writing lists and making plans for saving costs, which were quite drastic, and, for the most part, quite impractical
9. in complete reign of poverty and eternal destitution
10. The railways there are the employer of last resort for the thick kabooroos (Boers) and they maintain a stranglehold on the jobs for fear of destitution
11. the wicked destitution all gone that the superlative despise
12. Wandering aimless from merchant to hustler to urchin to addiction to destitution, he came upon an elderly lady sitting at the crossways between four large structures
13. To hear the Captain tell it, once upon a time his crew had all been more or less upstanding members of the Galactic Confederation, but each had suffered their own series of mishaps that resulted in the stripping of their privileges of citizenry, and they were thus presented with the choice of prosperous piracy or shunned destitution
14. This and the house on Evermore Street, which had sheltered other families since destitution forced her eviction
15. That would bring some income and relieve my penurious ness bringing on my situation of destitution and
16. They set up their small shops in the poorest neighbourhoods, because in their own country, that level of destitution and squalor was normal… so they felt more comfortable in that environment
17. If one person profits from this exchange while the other person loses, then it becomes a human imbalance, corrupting the profiteer by his greed and selfishness and harming the loser through destitution and poverty
18. This happened in Holland also when the 1st middle class nation created the 1st starving middleclass poor: A destitution and degradation so horrible, people died on the streets of Holland and had to be shoveled off the sidewalks as an eyesore to the new huge prosperity of this newly incredibly wealthy nation
19. The descended into such misery, and destitution and ignorance and superstitious nonsense: that enlightened Europeans during the middle ages; refused to set foot in that blackened, despoiled, butchered, desolate land… it took hundreds of years for the land that was once Transylvania… to slowly begin to heal from the killing blight… and the killing bite of Vlad the Impaler
20. ’ The small development is described by total destitution
21. wives raised from destitution and owing everything to their husband's bounty--who propounds it, too, almost at the first interview
22. Laurence was continually finding some touching case of destitution, and begging the Bhaers to take pity on the child, and he would gladly pay a trifle for its support
23. He now spoke of the wives and children of the slain; their destitution; their misery, both physical and moral; their distance; and, at last, of their unavenged wrongs
24. `In my opinion, we are all in a state of poverty even when we have employment - the condition we are reduced to when we're out of work is more properly described as destitution
25. `If there wasn't something wrong with your minds,' continued Owen, `you would be able to see that we might have "Plenty of Work" and yet be in a state of destitution
26. In brief, he had forgotten for the time being that, like the majority of his fellow workmen, he was on the brink of destitution, and that a few weeks of unemployment or idleness meant starvation
27. When the inquest was held a few days afterwards, the coroner remarked that it was the third case of death from destitution
28. and destitution, and then only on condition that they whined
29. a state of perpetual poverty which in many cases bordered on destitution
30. It was also known that he had lived in a state of destitution till the arrival of
31. To find himself without money after a run of bad luck at monte in the low, smoky room of Domingo's posada, where the fraternity of Cargadores gambled, sang, and danced of an evening; to remain with empty pockets after a burst of public generosity to some peyne d'oro girl or other (for whom he did not care), had none of the humiliation of destitution
32. measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind
33. The boys followed her to the wagon and assisted her in, courtly for all their rags, gay with the volatile Fontaine gaiety, but with the picture of their destitution in her eyes, she What a pleasure it would be to know people who were rich and not worried as to where shivered as she drove away from Mimosa
34. He had not been there since his first interview with Bulstrode in the morning, having been found at the Hospital by the banker's messenger; and for the first time he was returning to his home without the vision of any expedient in the background which left him a hope of raising money enough to deliver him from the coming destitution of everything which made his married life tolerable—everything which saved him and Rosamond from that bare isolation in which they would be forced to recognize how little of a comfort they could be to each other
35. Despite this destitution, the soldiers and officers went on living just as usual
36. But what then! Make her share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thenardiers! How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that?
37. At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated that his name was Jondrette
38. He had endured everything in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts
39. He said to himself with a sort of joy that—it was certainly the least he could do; that it was an expiation;—that, had it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and later on for his impious indifference towards his father, and such a father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it
40. Marius had lived for five years in poverty, in destitution, even in distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery
41. His destitution became known there
42. I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded
43. Luzhin, who propounds the theory of the superiority of wives raised from destitution and owing everything to their husband’s bounty—who propounds it, too, almost at the first interview
44. destitution, from ruin, from vice, from the Lock hospitals—and all with her money
45. Not more than a month before his wedding he was in a state of hopeless destitution
46. And now he has sunk into terrible destitution, with his family—an unhappy family of sick children, and, I believe, an insane wife
47. It was said, however, that though Grushenka had been raised from destitution by the old man, Samsonov, she came of a respectable family belonging to the clerical class, that she was the daughter of a deacon or something of the sort
48. She found the two Poles in great poverty, almost destitution, without food or fuel, without cigarettes, in debt to their landlady
49. He was obliged to leave his place, sell his two gray horses, and everything he had in the world; and he fell into complete destitution
50. Measures should be taken to supplant the notion that by moderate annual contributions to ordinary schools for a few years the great task can be accomplished of lifting up a race that had been held in bondage for centuries, that started in its career of freedom in absolute destitution and that pursues its course here under many disabilities; and preparing liberators, missionaries, guides and saviours for the Dark Continent