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penury
1. Needless to say, and despite the threat of imminent penury, she could hardly contain her contempt for the men displayed before her
2. 4 For it was requisite, that on them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid, but to these it should only be
3. But arose starving with penury
4. Almost all we had, in fact, between ourselves and true penury, were those few savings which we had left from our life on the road and my life on the sea
5. Amin hurried to help the man in his time of need and raise him out of his state of deprivation and penury, but there was no help to be found in his pocket as there were only a few coins: this amount could never satisfy M
6. North Africa and Arab states suddenly liberate themselves and become emblems of democratic desires, while post-industrial western nations march out legions of austerity propagandists to terrorize dream-starved populaces with tyrannies of corporate malfeasance enforcing social penury for slaveholder's benefit
7. Besides that, the China's communistic traders disseminated their cheap goods among the nations of the world because of the excessive rise in prices which accompanied by the serious penury
8. Her elegant physical feature portrays the impression of a natural beautiful woman, but harassed by hardship, tortured by many years of endless struggle to fend for her children, she is now dressed in the gab of pity and penury
9. I asked of my Dad three days to my wine carrying ceremony (igba-nkwu), why should women not stay in their parents place like the male children? Who decreed that fathers should give their female children away to marriage, many a time to penury, in the name of marriage? Who decreed that women should change their maiden names to their husband’s name? Does that suggest that we are slaves or something like that? My father looked at me and laughed, looked at me again, shook his head repeatedly and thoughtfully; he raised his head and looked me sternly in the eyes
10. Penury: Poverty; to be in need
11. The rich owners of all the Colonies became grimly furious at this unheard-of violation of their power to steal wealth, and the power to tax their own lower and middleclass into penury
12. Oh yes, despite my penury I was a member at the most exclusive sporting club in town
13. I was in the prison of my penury
14. The poor man may retain honour, but not the vicious; poverty may cast a cloud over nobility, but cannot hide it altogether; and as virtue of itself sheds a certain light, even though it be through the straits and chinks of penury, it wins the esteem of lofty and noble spirits, and in consequence their protection
15. Beauty by itself attracts the desires of all who behold it, and the royal eagles and birds of towering flight stoop on it as on a dainty lure; but if beauty be accompanied by want and penury, then the ravens and the kites and other birds of prey assail it, and she who stands firm against such attacks well deserves to be called the crown of her husband
16. His mother explained to him her liberal designs, in case of his marrying Miss Morton; told him she would settle on him the Norfolk estate, which, clear of land-tax, brings in a good thousand a-year; offered even, when matters grew desperate, to make it twelve hundred; and in opposition to this, if he still persisted in this low connection, represented to him the certain penury that must attend the match
17. A few of the more daring members of the Gamblers' Guild had once experimented with a form of worship, in the deepest cellars of Guild headquarters, and had all died of penury, murder or just Death within the week
18. Ten years ago, Wulfric had had chickens and pigs in his yard, but they had gradually been eaten or sold during the years of penury
19. Ashamed that she was poor and reduced to galling shifts and penury and work that negroes should do
20. Remembering the bitter hungry days at Tara and her more recent penury, Scarlett felt that she could never eat enough of these rich dishes
21. False signals and easily misinterpreted patterns could lead an investor into penury
22. When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in the charges for compelling and collection
23. It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury