| 单词 | impecunious |
| 例句 | She had no understanding of her husband’s work and, having been raised among the minor rural gentry, she despised his impecunious profession. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, it had to be shared with landless and impecunious whites, but this was not a complete disadvantage since these whites functioned as a buffer class to absorb the shocks of race conflict. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And the greatest hue and cry came from Rob Hall, who was leading a small, impecunious New Zealand team. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The irony of one of the world's most powerful and famously exacting celebrities still nursing childhood grievances about her impecunious upbringing while living in unrivaled splendor provides a good portion of this play's rocket fuel. 'Buyer & Cellar' is a pleasant, fond sendup of Streisand 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z And that, says Duff, turned Station North into the first act of “La Boheme,” a community of impecunious artists starving in their garrets. Can the arts save Baltimore? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z And the tales still told of talented but impecunious riders scrapping their way to the Classic on the back of some gifted nag discovered in a barnyard seem more than ever like myth. Where to Show Off Your $5 Million Horse 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The impecunious spy "belonged to a condition in life which rendered him the least reluctant to appear in so equivocal a character". The top 10 classic spy novels 2013-06-26T10:37:16Z Of course this makes her fall for the impecunious but virtuous young doctor, Erasmus Percy. John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z When this experiment failed, Trollope endured other hardships in Cincinnati, Ohio, trying to find ways of making money to send back to her impecunious family. Land of two acts 2013-03-05T08:00:00Z After a Beethoven concert rich, bohemian Helen Schlegel goes home with a brolly belonging to the impecunious clerk with cultural yearnings. Ten of the best brolleys in literature 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z And yet, as much as one might indignantly recoil, a marriage between the free market and the freedom to wed is not an impecunious union. Fighting for equality, one meme at a time 2013-03-29T15:50:00Z He often booked double sessions so that the young and mostly impecunious musicians could make better use of precious BBC recording time. Bernie Andrews obituary 2010-07-20T17:08:00Z We're all just impecunious round-eyes, shaking a tail feather in front of a green screen – trying to make a quick yuan to set against our astronomical debt. David Mitchell on Brits as Hollywood superheroes 2011-02-06T00:05:59Z He is also often hilarious in his bitter commentary on both the British government’s impecunious support for the cause and the moral morass that the Afghan conflict has become. | 'Blood and Gifts': ?Blood and Gifts? at Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater - Review 2011-11-22T03:02:13Z Almost in her league was Mrs. Bradley-Martin, who inherited an unexpected fortune from her father and shoved her daughter, Cornelia, into a marriage to the impecunious Earl of Craven, who was after her million-dollar dowry. Titles and Troubles: American Heiresses Abroad 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Maestri said that as he has gotten older, he has found Falstaff — an impecunious knight whose gold-digging efforts to woo a pair of married women end in humiliation — more sympathetic. A Plus-Size Falstaff Grows Into His Outsize Part 2013-12-04T22:49:20Z Apparently Simm took lessons to learn how to scythe, and you could see him building up a muck sweat here as he attacked his fields in increasingly impecunious desperation. Rewind TV: The Village; Jonathan Creek; Game of Thrones – review 2013-04-06T21:45:01Z His involvement with the landed but impecunious Ayres family becomes semi-romantic when he seems to be telling us of his attraction to Caroline, the distinctly unfeminine daughter of the house. Ten of the best women writing as men 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Retirees with free time are jostling for slots, as are impecunious drama students who view ushering as a no-cost way to expand their artistic horizons and make connections with members of Off Broadway theaters. Nice Work if You Can Get It: Being a Volunteer Usher on Broadway 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z He spent six years at London's Guildhall School of Music and now, remembering how impecunious he was, he has set up a foundation to help young musicians. Bryn Terfel: 'I'd like to sing Citizen Kane' 2012-06-26T17:40:14Z The formal study of the history of art, with its generally impecunious career prospects, may well remain a niche subject. How important is art history in today’s market? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z After he falls in love with a portrait of Arabella as he recovers from a bear wound, he comes to Vienna, where her impecunious family is staying, to court her. Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z Long before digital seemed like a viable delivery system for theatrical exhibition, it was an alluring paintbox for adventurous and impecunious cinéastes. The New Season: How Digital Is Changing the Nature of Movies 2012-09-06T16:55:25Z Before the success of Spam Tomorrow, she led a life that was colourful but frequently impecunious. Verily Anderson obituary 2010-07-29T17:17:00Z Its rulers were called Dauphins, until the impecunious Dauphin Humbert II sold his holdings to the King of France in 1349, when the title fell to the king’s eldest son. Le Dauphiné, a French Region With a History Both Ancient and Personal 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Many read The Impressionist; many more read – with mounting bile and envy – about how the then 31-year-old, hitherto impecunious journalist had got one of the most lucrative book contracts ever. Hari Kunzru: 'What's happened since 2008 is a class war based on faith and credit' 2011-08-07T19:00:02Z Kreisler was nothing if not open to importuning money from his acquaintances and wondered how best to raise the subject of his impecunious state. Digested classic: Tarr by Wyndham Lewis 2010-06-04T10:05:00Z Fans and players relatively unscathed, the pyramid structure affirmed, the current season’s integrity retained, clubs in trouble helped and the 14’s own playing staff not raided by clubs so impecunious they need their own goldmine.” Uefa’s Ceferin says Super League sides will ‘suffer consequences’ – live updates! 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl reports that the overall personal-savings rate soared from 8 percent to 32 percent: People are avoiding air travel and restaurants not because they are impecunious but because they are prudent. Opinion | Lindsey Graham had a lock on most ludicrous senator — until Josh Hawley pounced 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z As a young, eager-to-please novelist, he had transformed his impecunious father into the whimsical and charming Mr. Micawber of “Copperfield”; after his father’s death came a more selfish and unforgiving version in “Little Dorrit.” Review: The demons that dogged Charles Dickens 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z He wrote in a Nobel biography that he grew up in an environment of “secure but impecunious Midwestern academics.” Philip Anderson, Nobel-winning theoretical physicist, dies at 96 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z “On both sides my family were secure but impecunious Midwestern academics,” Dr. Anderson wrote in his Nobel biography. Philip W. Anderson, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Is Dead at 96 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z “Wherever you have impecunious young people ubiquitously connected to the internet, e-commerce is desperate to happen,” Ledgard wrote in a concept manifesto. Jonathan Ledgard Believes Imagination Could Save the World 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z "The predominance of our complainants are homeless, financially impecunious, desperate for security. Many have mental health problems. Many are alcoholics or drug addicts." How I became a victim of a modern slavery gang 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z But it’s easy to imagine Murray approving of Grotelueschen’s original take on a writer who has been blocked so long he’s become almost inured to the impecunious horror of his life. Review: ‘Tootsie’ gives Broadway its funniest musical since ‘Book of Mormon’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Prosecutors described Mr. Covlin as an impecunious professional backgammon player who risked losing his children and his lavish lifestyle if the divorce was approved. He Wanted His Wife’s Fortune. So He Killed Her, Then Tried Framing His Daughter. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z For a fee professional blood merchants will herd a gaggle of impecunious strangers to a donation centre, where they pose as acquaintances of the patient in need. China bungles changes to its blood-donation system 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z He has set aside his matrimonial scruples long enough to have fathered a son with “an impecunious Spanish widow” whom he does not love. A Neglected South American Masterpiece 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Ai spent 12 years in the U.S., including a decade in New York City from 1983 to 1993 as an impecunious art student in the East Village. Ai Weiwei’s Triumphant Return 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z It is an unabashed account of the dismal lodgings, awful food, and terrible smells that make up the day-to-day existence of any impecunious twentysomething. Bruce Springsteen is a great songwriter – but that rarely makes for great memoirs 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z This impecunious peon will take Absinthe or Zuni any day of the week. Dinner, Disrupted 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z The story of a nobleman’s daughter who falls in love with an impecunious young tutor, “Julie” was the best-selling novel of the eighteenth century. How Rousseau Predicted Trump 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z “The Greek government, which is, of course, fiscally completely and utterly impecunious, is being told, ‘The only way you are going to get money is if you intern them. E.U. forcing refugees into “concentration camps” as economic crisis fuels far-right, warns Greek ex-finance minister 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z In Grandma, released in the UK next month, Tomlin takes the lead as an impecunious gay poet who tries to raise $600 in a day, to pay for her granddaughter’s abortion. Lily Tomlin: ‘I don’t relate to any of my life, except the stories I’m telling you’ 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The “digital divide” is widened by income inequality, and access to computers and fast Internet connections in turn helps drive a larger and larger wedge between the affluent and the impecunious. North Carolina editorial roundup 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z But they will, he predicts, enjoy a measure of success among the young and the impecunious—and this will be enough to put downward pressure on cellular pricing plans. Change is in the air 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Japanese war crimes victims agitated for compensation; Third World governments begged for overseas development aid; foreign shysters and conmen offered an exotic panoply of dud investments; impecunious American universities pressed for endowments. This Is No April Fool: Japan Is Beating The Pants Off The United States 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z In some cases they are using new distribution channels to reach impecunious consumers: American Express, for example, is marketing Bluebird, a low-cost current account, through Walmart stores. Cheap and cheerful 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The tours are “pay what you want,” making them perfect for the interested but impecunious. Seeing the sights on D.C.’s National Mall 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Poetry may be a noble vocation, but poets are generally an impecunious lot. At Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Balm for the Borrower 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z In America it is reserved for the old and impecunious. Welfare and work: Taxing hard-up Americans at 95% 2013-09-05T15:00:49Z Diageo’s most successful African product, Senator Keg, was introduced six years ago and aimed at the impecunious. Schumpeter: Intoxivation 2012-07-12T15:01:25Z Such costs are precisely why impecunious countries such as Greece face massive social and economic displacement when financial markets lose confidence and capital flows suddenly dry up. Austerity and debt realism 2012-06-01T13:32:50Z It would be considered the sheerest waste to let it lie idle for a single day, and so they are continually on the look-out for impecunious people to whom they can lend with safety. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z On the contrary, he was anxious to do what he could for the benefit of his impecunious nephews and nieces. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z The Duke is a celebrated, cultivated, underrated nobleman of impecunious estate, shabby in attire but unquestionably gentle in breeding. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z The name, "Bonaparte," was still one wherewith to conjure, and that fact by itself made its thick-headed and impecunious bearers welcome in almost every land they might choose to visit. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The great highway beneath is abandoned to the harmless impecunious bicyclist, and on the North Road the sweeping cloud dust has it all its own way. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z The curious part of it was that the impecunious princess was one of the very few persons in the world whose presence irritated her. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Hard, in truth, was the position of Elizabeth, left to struggle as she might for her large and impecunious family. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z When the Duke of Plaza-Toro arrives, he must at once impress the audience that, although impecunious, he still expects the deference due to birth and breeding. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z But Shiver-the-Frills told the sighing, but impecunious, swain to keep off, and ordered Marguerite to marry Farmer, who had a snug fortune. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z He called in an impecunious literary man, that is, a literary man, and with some trepidation made what business men quaintly call a proposition. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z “Oh, that’s that lame tramp of a woman, Princess Chertogoff,” he rejoined, with gestures of contempt and amusement, yet inwardly tingling with vanity at his acquaintance with her impecunious “Illustriousness.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Mr. Clay used often to preach out-of-doors to his impecunious flock, who, beside loving him for his spiritual nature, admired his fine voice and manly presence. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z The two men were as unlike as possible in their habits of work, Dekker having apparently all the thriftlessness and impecunious shamelessness of Micawber himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The vicar's son being on the spot in his handsome regimentals, they are engaged in the presence of the company, and her affluent fortune is assured to this hitherto impecunious youth. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Careless lords and impecunious squires babbled of freedom and cackled of free trade, because it was become the fashion and pleased the Volunteers. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z In personal appearance there is nothing of the round-shouldered, impecunious, studious inventor about him. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z Franklin found himself alone in a strange country, doubly unhappy because he had used for himself and some impecunious friends one hundred and seventy-five dollars, collected from a business man. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z The former were apt to be political exiles, the Doctor always having many such on hand, some learned, all impecunious, all seeking employment. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z To these firm verities he held devotedly, whether counseling the Nation as its president, projecting negro colonies as the negro's friend, or offering to an idling, impecunious brother a dollar gratis for every dollar earned. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Miss Wolfe was an heiress as times went, and likely to be richer; impecunious squires and squireens were legion; and the abduction clubs not yet quite stamped out. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z His household goods were rapidly going to the hammer, and one creditor, bolder than his fellows, decided to attack the impecunious personality of the common debtor. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z When she was young Mr. East fell in love with her and she with him, but he was an impecunious youth and my great-grandparents would not permit the marriage. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z He is as prompt to the feeding board as an impecunious college professor to the bursar’s office at the end of the first quarter. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Like Dickens, he delighted in assisting the cause of the poor and weak, which characteristic, so conspicuous in both, may be accounted for by the impecunious surroundings in which they were both reared. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z We have some lovely new recollections just in from impecunious composers. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The careers open to a younger son of a well-connected but impecunious house are strictly limited in number. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Reckless, impecunious, an admitted adventurer, were not the chances even that if he got hold of the letters he would turn them to his own purposes? Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Lane had, perhaps, forgotten the latter was not one of the impecunious smaller fry who, it was suggested, occasionally accepted more than hints from him. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z From this and many similar allusions we glean that actors were not in the infancy of our English dramatic art the shabby impecunious class they afterwards became. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The fifth member of the company in Mrs. Carnby's salon, Mr. Thomas Radwalader, enjoyed the truly Parisian distinction of being an impecunious bachelor who did not accept all the invitations he received. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Harvard, Yale and Princeton will become glorified offices of admissions, bestowing nothing more than their coveted imprimatur, while impecunious but ambitious learners will avail themselves of an Ivy League education without the degree. Salman Khan: The New Andrew Carnegie? 2011-11-16T12:00:21Z An impecunious young man in a red hunt coat rushed in, hooted on the stairs by Mr. Lumley for having come without a wedding garment. Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:31.283Z Such a thing would be impossible for impecunious me,” and the speaker turned his empty trousers' pockets inside out, and spun around on his heel. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z Bound to fulfil his engagement, it was necessary for him to cross the river; and his impecunious condition precluded all possibility of hiring a boat. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z One pictures to oneself an eighteenth-century Mr. Micawber, buoyant and impecunious. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z As the daughter of an impecunious college professor, the eighteen-year-old girl set out to earn her own living as governess to the daughters of a Russian nobleman. Marie Sklodowska Curie 2011-10-28T13:45:02.217Z He said his father, whom he once described as an impecunious civil servant, urged him to pursue a more secure career. Antonio Cassese, Noted Italian Jurist, Dies at 74 2011-10-24T02:55:06Z Perhaps half the whole body of teachers made up a motley assortment of impecunious tramps. Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada 2011-10-14T02:00:23.300Z Mathews had no belief that the money would be ready at the time named, though the impecunious actor kept the appointment. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z In ordinary conversation, when the question of the comparative fortunes of the different classes is introduced, a Brahmin is often heard to lament his most impecunious lot. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Develops a pleasing talent for private theatricals, in the exercise of which falls in love with a pretty but impecunious young woman. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z "Much she'd care what an impecunious American in a pension does or doesn't do!" Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z But as his captive turned round and showed his sullen face the Duke knew that this was no mere impecunious vagabond, sneaking a cheap railway journey. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z Some of the stories told by Mathews of his impecunious day, smack of a grim humour. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z But like many young men who seek immortality in economics, Hayek launched his career by attacking the reigning king, beginning when he was an impecunious graduate student on a Rockefeller fellowship at New York University. Hayek, Keynes and How to Prevent Economic Crises: Sylvia Nasar 2011-09-13T00:26:01Z It was fairly full, of a mixed company, but long-haired and impecunious Bohemia was conspicuously absent. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z By the simple expedient of the sovereign in season to the kitchen-maid, who, like the rest of her class, was unquestionably loyal, but more unquestionably impecunious. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z When I remonstrated, he asked me whether I looked upon the stage as a refuge for impecunious youths. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Collins died of neglect; Milton was an impecunious genius; every body knows how wretchedly poor Goldsmith was; and wasn’t poor old prodigious Sam Johnson hungry half his life? Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z Her two contributions amounted to fifty-four pages of print—truly a generous gift to an impecunious magazine editor. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z Employing the Journal’s classic deep-dig methods, the story detailed her rise from impecunious obscurity in mainland China to glittering third wife of a mogul. Deng! The Story of Wonder Wendi 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z He was an impecunious rake and dodger, a boon companion and licentious coward. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z He remembered Straughan vaguely—Straughan, the ever impecunious friend of his youth, always talking of color and sound—mysterious, ineffectual things. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z So, as Mr Bhosh was a confirmed impecunious, he departed in severe despondency. A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z We know also that Mr. Sponge is impecunious, his hunters are hired; he is, in fact, as his author describes him, “a vulgar humbug.” John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z To your impecunious correspondent, the path is clear: I need to be elected to Congress! Essay: Not-So-Representative Investors 2011-07-09T17:40:38Z He was a type of a great many others, impecunious descendants, many of them, of younger sons—drawling, effeminate, shallow-pated nobodies. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z They took up the idea of the guest chamber with great enthusiasm, but they were nearly as impecunious as ourselves. Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z AND now, O gentle and sympathetic reader, behold our unfortunate hero confined in the darkest bowels of the Old Bailey Dungeon, for the mere crime of being an impecunious! A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z The impecunious Hunt was always hitting up his exasperated friends for loans; Dickens based the sponging Harold Skimpole, in "Bleak House," on him. Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron dies in NYC 2011-05-28T14:18:00Z They wished to rule Ireland, and declined to bow the knee to impecunious adventurers invested with royal powers by the King of England. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z People of impecunious gentility, who can't issue orders in any houses but their own, construct in their own, with much ease, loopholes whence they can fire upon the enemy who makes his attack from--within. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z When there were no more landlords willing to wait forever for their rent-money, the impecunious family moved to an old scow anchored in shallow water near an abandoned wharf. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z To his rank and his position in the Ministry he speedily found that she was absolutely indifferent, and was as ready to dance and laugh with an impecunious younger son as with himself. Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) 2011-05-15T02:00:11.283Z Meanwhile, the armies were kept in perpetual motion, procuring money for the impecunious Directory, making a diversion for internal discontent, and also permitting of a “reversed Coup d’�tat of the 22nd Flor�al. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Halifax was impecunious and pressed by creditors when he made the acquaintance of Miss Dunk, and she was by no means loath to become Countess of Halifax. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z It was to be expected, therefore, that during Natalia's impecunious seasons her aunt should relapse into unmitigated dustiness, and puff her discontent, so to speak, in dreary little gusts at the forlorn maiden. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z The scenes of her stories were generally laid in Ireland, and the stories themselves were almost invariably concerned with the courtship of lovely but impecunious maidens by eligible and affluent youths. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z The engagement of his niece to an impecunious young gentleman invariably coincides with a sharp attack of gout. Mr. Punch in Bohemia 2011-04-16T02:00:17.803Z She had had impecunious admirers who did not consider her father’s money a disadvantage. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Returning to England impecunious but as debonair as ever, Stanhope, nevertheless, realized that it was imperative that he should marry money. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Had merely remarked that the Irish people were impecunious and garrulous. Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z He added that it would lead to NHS Trusts defending claims by "impecunious" claimants, backed by legal aid or no win, no fee deals. Woman pays ?1 for MRSA legal case 2011-03-24T14:31:38Z The impecunious Michelangelo sent his wife, seven children, and a German nurse, to the home of Galileo, to be taken care of. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z These cities are full of impecunious wastrels; I was one myself.” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z I may be misled by secret sympathy with that often scholarly, too often impecunious figure, the local antiquary. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Goldborough used to be an impecunious chap, land poor, till he and father began to pull together. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z It is a peculiarity of the actor that he is never so jolly, so full of fun, and altogether so vivacious, as when he is impecunious. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z I am an impecunious young woman of luxurious tastes. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z After marrying his only daughter to an impecunious peer, he occupied a shameful old house upon Thames bank, the greater part of which was stocked with bales of merchandise. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Translate gold into button hooks, the Hills into a factory, Billy Knapp into an impecunious small proprietor anxious to sell, and not one of the three would have gone into the affair so blindly. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z The Rev. Cyril, however, being a bachelor, and living a good deal at free quarters, was not an impecunious individual. The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation 2011-02-06T03:01:00.547Z Just saying the figures out loud is enough to make you feel, if not a little dizzy, then at least distinctly impecunious. Record transfer fees? Who says the economy isn't booming? 2011-02-01T20:00:01Z "I gather that the Marquis, then, is impecunious?" he said. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z With us, the well-to-do publisher has a better standing in what is called “society” than the impecunious author. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z First came the original "grub staker" and a score more like him—impecunious, giving, many of them, their labor and experience, in exchange for tools and provisions furnished them by a speculator in the towns. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Occasionally one finds a multiple divorc�e with money, playing at patroness to some impecunious song-writer or handsome actor with more brawn than brain. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z There may be reasons for impecunious clubs to cling to plastic but it seems utterly incongruous at the elite level of the Champions League. Tottenham should not have had to face Young Boys on a plastic pitch 2010-08-18T13:07:00Z "I had no idea, Mr. Wadham, if you will forgive my saying so, that your firm was in so impecunious a position." The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z She had never known her mother; her father, an impecunious officer, had been embittered by an unsuccessful career, and out of disappointment at his discharge, had taken his own life. The Undying Past Here we have the indispensable ingredients for an adventure—night, a pretty actress, and an impecunious young man who has played the Noble 'Ero. The Gay Adventure A Romance This tax was collected by the Aksakals before mentioned, and was a very profitable source of income for the impecunious khans. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar She considered the lilies of the field, but somehow she could not believe that their example was the wisest one for impecunious human beings to follow. Nancy of Paradise Cottage Gertrude was perfectly well aware that Mr. Houston was impecunious; but Augusta had been allowed to have an impecunious lover, and Tom to throw himself at the feet of an impecunious love. Ayala's Angel Yet, when I reflected afterward, it seemed like a wide gulf that must separate a comparatively impecunious lawyer from a wealthy girl like Adele Laidlaw. The Social Gangster An impecunious nobleman had obtained office, with reversion to eldest son; and so, through the ages, unsuspecting taxpayer had subscribed salary. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93. August 27, 1887 "It is only the impecunious who are constrained to be modest," remarked Elton as the four sat smoking in Bowen's room after dinner. Patricia Brent, Spinster She looked at Nancy, who was the treasurer of the family, much as an impecunious queen might look at her first Lord of the Exchequer while asking him for funds to buy a new crown. Nancy of Paradise Cottage In her second season she had fallen foolishly but honestly in love with a well-born but impecunious curate, and had married him in spite of threats and withering sneers. Faith and Unfaith His little daughter, Constantia Maria—so named and so called from two grandmothers, equally exacting in their claims and equally impecunious as regards their resources—was his sole solace in this long vigil. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Towards these impecunious cousins James Marsh assumed a patronizing, almost friendly, attitude. John Marsh's Millions Professor Hanson, the noted sociologist, was a passenger; so also was Mrs. Phelps, the wealthy young widow whose recent bereavement had made her the target of every impecunious nobleman in Europe. By Right of Conquest A Novel In the Middle Ages the bankers of Northern Italy, and later of Spain and Portugal advanced small sums to impecunious foreign sovereigns. American World Policies He was thirsty, impecunious, and a trifle tired. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes For instance, the Duke of A——, being very desirous of marrying, and being also notoriously impecunious, would call at the office and ask for a choice of American heiresses possessing between five and ten millions. The Red Rat's Daughter They are quite ladies, though, in a most impecunious state.” Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One It had been quite in keeping with his ideas that the Thornes should taste the bitters of poverty, and know what being impecunious really meant. The New Mistress A Tale The first result of my candidature led to a visit from an impecunious Scot at my suburban residence, who had read my programme with infinite delight. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself But cynic or not, here we are, a brace of superfluous and utterly impecunious sons of two worthy country parsons, bunked out here to fish for ourselves. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion It was not always so; once nothing was thought of the effort made by an impecunious young man to throw himself on the generosity of one who had already achieved success. The Book of Courage On the other hand, Oxford, which is slimed with Toryism, is always ready to make any son of any impecunious greengrocer the head of one's college. The New Warden She was a very worthy soul, a downright providence to the generally impecunious painters, whom she used to feed at prices which even then were ridiculously low. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Leveraux entertained the assemblage with selections from her companion's exceptionally interesting European experiences, as put in form probably by some enterprising, though impecunious, New York Bohemian. The Spiritualists and the Detectives To be sure, compared with Mr. Higginson he was impecunious; but that, to Straker's mind, was just what gave him, with the other things, his indomitable distinction. The Return of the Prodigal Then he took the plunge, strong in the belief that a half-forgotten transaction between himself and “Jimmy” Devar would prevent that impecunious warrior from discussing him freely in the family circle. Cynthia's Chauffeur Charles Lamb, speaking of Dekker's share in Massinger's Virgin Martyr, highly eulogises the impecunious poet. Old and New London Volume I An impecunious host of these fortune-hunting lords swarm in the society of our large cities. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century There is an unwritten code in force in this respect, every paragraph of which is made and provided to cover the individual needs of such impecunious officers. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day But what a picture the letter presents of an impecunious scholar, bewitched by his pursuit, and sure that it was to end in some vast result! Noah Webster American Men of Letters Outside the walls of the city was a large encampment of tents in which dwelt the more impecunious or more economical of the miners. Gold In "Vanity Fair" we find it described as the temporary abode of the impecunious Colonel Crawley, and Moss describes his uncomfortable past and present guests in a manner worthy of Fielding himself. Old and New London Volume I She made no effort to prepare for her an alliance with an impecunious scion of the minor Continental nobility such as she arranged later for Sadie Paul. Clark's Field But how am I to go on in my present impecunious position if I quarrel altogether with my bread and butter? The Landleaguers Some one is to set up the business, I heard; an impecunious nephew, no doubt. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Nor was this impecunious noblesse merely a passive burden to New France, for the dignified hardships of their estate soon bred active conditions equally distressing to those in authority. Old Quebec The Fortress of New France She forgets that the tarnished name she bears was dragged up out of the ruck of the impecunious by me when I received Jim Crowles into my house! Carmen Ariza Vanya’s concert had been enough of a success to attract the attention of genuine music-lovers and an impecunious impresario––an irresponsible promoter celebrated for rushing headlong into things and being kicked headlong out of them. The Crimson Tide A Novel And from the melancholy nature of his face when the application for money was made to him, she had learned that he was both good-natured and impecunious. The Landleaguers There were others who came to the hotel for short fortnights, impecunious young business men or lawyers who were looking about for suitable assistance in life. The Man Who Wins Perhaps Mr. Beaufort—if the proprietor of the hotel is indeed a Mr. Beaufort—makes enough money out of the millionaires to enable him to entertain impecunious kings. The Island Mystery She had contented herself that Carmen should some day barter her rare culture, her charm, and her unrivaled beauty, for the more lowly title of an impecunious count or baron. Carmen Ariza She acted, too, as banker for the other impecunious tradespeople in the block, and as this included nearly all of them she was often pressed for funds herself. Whispering Smith I have given them £200, and am, therefore, at this moment, nearly impecunious. The Landleaguers Millicent Leslie was ambitious, but the woman who endeavors to assist an impecunious husband's schemes by becoming a social influence usually suffers, even if successful, in the process, and Millicent had not been particularly successful. Thurston of Orchard Valley For he was now impecunious, and withal importunate. The Book of Khalid He was a genial, harmless sort of young man, but he was wealthy, and the sight of his prosperous complacency made the impecunious young doctor long to do him some bodily injury. Treasure Valley I thought you were the most impecunious young person of the lot.” Dorothy's House Party "But you do forbear," we interposed; "and do you imagine that their example is going to prevail with the great average of impecunious American housewives, or sisters, or daughters?" Imaginary Interviews "How are you getting on, Mose?" asked an anxious creditor of an impecunious colored farmer. Oklahoma Sunshine But Augustine was yet blameless, and Augustine would one day be a wealthy not an impecunious squire, and Mrs. Grey had said that she would see to it that Augustine had his chance. Amabel Channice It stood for ten years, this Hotel Marseillaise, the hope of the impecunious. The Readjustment They fear that adult suffrage may not improve matters, and that impecunious professional politicians may prove worse than the class of politicians who up till now have sat in Parliament. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals I represented myself as one of that much-to-be pitied class, referred to by Mr. Chelm, of well-educated but impecunious young people, who only needed employment to be comfortable and happy. A Romantic Young Lady Just here a thought occurs which may be of advantage to ambitious but impecunious young men. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century From Bow even unto Hammersmith there draggled a dull, wretched vapor, like the wraith of an impecunious suicide come into a fortune immediately after the fatal deed. The Big Bow Mystery Christian servants do not clamour in this way, and give a pleasant "tank you" when they are given something, and take great care of an impecunious wayfarer. India and the Indians But that was a long time ago, in the days of his impecunious youth; and now, in his prosperous middle-age, he would often have willingly bartered a good many patients for a little more leisure. A Bachelor's Dream This ceremony was long suspended, however, on account of continuous wars as well as the impecunious condition of the Court. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era A kind of dogged comradeship—I can find no better word for it—is what commonly unites the labouring man and his wife; they are partners and equals running their impecunious affairs by mutual help. Change in the Village Servants—especially butlers and valets—play a considerable part, and so do poor relations and impecunious dependents. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations I can only describe it in the well-worn phrases, ‘briefless barrister’ and ‘impecunious junior.’ The Mystery of the Green Ray He was a daisy of the chronic impecunious variety. A Pirate of Parts One of these four lives in Cambridge, one is a hermit in the mountains, one teaches school in Nebraska, and one is an impecunious clerk in New York. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance There is nothing improbable in such an occurrence, and it was matched only sixteen months later, when he was on the point of starting for Khartoum in the same impecunious condition. The Life of Gordon, Volume II Soldiers in garrison are notoriously impecunious, and Martin had nothing to give; but drawing his sword he cleaved his mantle in twain, and bestowed half upon the shivering wretch at his feet. The Story of Paris “I'm the only niece of poor but impecunious relatives, and they expect me to do my best and marry well.” The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Cheek is the capital with which the impecunious push ahead while modest merit remains in the background waiting for a chance. A Pirate of Parts Three impecunious bachelors, lured by her money, had paid her some attentions, but their courage failed at last, and they silently slunk away. The Erie Train Boy Considering that he was impecunious enough to require a loan which he had been unable to negotiate, it was rather remarkable. Sam's Chance And How He Improved It The consequence was that Michael O'Connor lived and died an impecunious man, whose only legacy to his children was the record of a virtuous life. Grey Town An Australian Story Instead, merely a hopeless passion for an impecunious subaltern sweltering in far-off India. The Prodigal Father As usual in somewhat similar cases, every impecunious player became desirous of immediately starting out upon the uncertain sea of theatricals. A Pirate of Parts We know whence they come, for they are often impecunious gentlemen, but where do they go? Fair Margaret A Portrait In the general election which soon followed at the end of 1806 he supported Paull, an impecunious adventurer, who made a good fight, but was beaten by Sir J. Hood and Sheridan. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill It was like a homeless bottle collector pushing an unwieldy cart away from him or, if it could be transmuted to sound, that of a man repudiating his own impecunious past. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Love's a lean And impecunious urchin; lovers mean Gifts, worship, triumph—Money! Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 They seemed an impecunious assemblage, gathered for mere sport. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis He marries the most beautiful and one of the most impecunious peeresses in England and retires to his country estate. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays They were convinced that he was in desperate financial straits if he would marry his daughter to an impecunious musician. The Goose Man For, oddly enough, he, as rich as he was, had come to this place of all places like an impecunious, malnourished refugee seeking any parlous state that might save him from starvation. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais What is the usual procedure when a town objects to impecunious tramps staying around more than twenty-four hours? A Tramp's Notebook I was then a Fellow of my College, impecunious except as regarded my academical stipend, so the young lady took advice and paired off with a well-to-do cousin. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis The fellow has got it into his head that his sailor-guest is no longer impecunious. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea For hungry and impecunious folk the City of Roses was fast becoming a bed of thorns. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Space and nature and Jatupon whose only essence could be found here and, in part, within this impecunious stranger, were the only allure. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Believe me, gentlemen of the jury, this is simply the barefaced attempt to bleed and mulct a poor impecunious Indian. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. However, she, or rather her parents, take high ground in the matter, which of course is very praiseworthy on their parts, and convenient for their guests if they happen to be impecunious. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis But the negro, as said before, has one advantage over his impecunious white brother—a genius for theft. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science He had many pursuits, and wealth which should have been abundant, though all Elizabeth's courtiers were impecunious. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography With him we have not anything to do, except to say that of all men he was the most impecunious. An Old Man's Love I was often on the verge of asking if you were related; but being then but a second-class passenger, and under an impecunious cloud, did not dare to take the liberty. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. Native Nova Scotians have shown that we do not need to go abroad for lazy and impecunious placemen. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe It was a small and primitive place, just the location for an impecunious medical man, recently out of college. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories The poor devil may have some bills to settle before he can get away, and in any event she must not be disappointed because her impecunious husband lacks a few dollars. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery As a rule, we preferred the small restaurant that was cheap, as we were most of us impecunious, also the restaurant that was out-of-doors, out-of-doors turning the simplest dinner into a feast. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Doyle, so he explained, lived very largely by lending money, and therefore offered himself as fair game to the impecunious borrower. General John Regan "When we are impecunious," says Mr. du Maurier, "we must needs be democratic." The History of "Punch" The Ludlow is capital to flirt with,—quick, spicy, sentimental by spells, not the kind of a girl to waste herself on a young, impecunious fellow like our friend Jim, here, so he goes scot-free. A Little Girl of Long Ago It is a favourite locality for the impecunious philosopher. Men of Affairs It seems that Forepaugh's agents found out that Barnum had purchased the elephant from an impecunious Indian Rajah; in fact, he had purchased two, the first one having died on its way to England. Side Show Studies In the mean time Tone had taken a step which brilliant, gifted, generous, and impecunious young men usually take at the opening of their career—he had made a sudden marriage. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III He sometimes wondered, he has told me, if he would eat a dinner that day; and as becomes the impecunious, he was a tremendous democrat. The History of "Punch" Though tremendously in awe of the impecunious and futile Joel, Mary felt no sense of diffidence where the efficient Persis was concerned, and at once went to find her. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Chester did not need to be told what had brought the elder artist into such an impecunious condition. Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune He would be spared the anxieties of early and impecunious marriage, his professional career would not be weighted by family cares, the whole world was once more open before him, and the slate clean. The Nebuly Coat He sat down to the contemplation of ways and means, therefore, without the usual recourse taken by impecunious gentlemen with a large circle of wealthy acquaintances to relieve temporary embarrassments. Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life But it was the best position she had secured, after climbing the ladder through the offices of more or less impecunious attorneys. Joan of Arc of the North Woods It is impossible to resist the conclusion that this book form was chosen not more to supply cheap books which could be sold to impecunious scholars than to provide portable volumes for travelers. The Booklover and His Books She had married an impecunious young artist against her brother’s wish, on which account he had declined ever to see her again. Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy The impecunious young man who marries a girl with a substantial check attached may very properly be said to have been checkmated. The New Pun Book These brokers in matrimony are ever planning how they can unite impecunious innocence to an heiress, or celibate woman to millionaire or marquis, and that in many cases makes life an unhappiness. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony There was a poor exile of Erin in the shape of an impecunious Irish nobleman, who enlisted on the same day with Polson and whose uniform was tried on in the same hour. VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea The plot had been laid long since, in the old impecunious hardworking days. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) Q. Is it necessary for the impecunious to suffer want? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 He was known as a competent officer, who discharged his duties with great consideration for the impecunious and unfortunate. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion The "impecunious" deserter fared more hardly; and would, usually, be forced by hunger and thirst to emerge from his hiding place, while the steamer was on the outward voyage. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner Part of her self-congratulation had justified itself, for the baby Leonard had grown up into one of those helpful, "handy" lads who sometimes are sent to be the salvation of impecunious households. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes The immediate needs of an impecunious king were regularly satisfied with money borrowed to be repaid some months afterward. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England I am not so learned as you are, but——Well, I'm an 'impecunious one,' in all conscience. April's Lady A Novel The other singular man with which this narrative is concerned was a small, delicate, mild-mannered, impecunious fellow, who made a living by writing for the press. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People In recent years many classes have left portraits of members of the various Faculties, while others have left loan funds which have been of inestimable service to many worthy but impecunious students. The University of Michigan It was the property of an impecunious English nobleman who made a respectable income from letting the vessel on hire. The Angel of Terror But Nevins now was penniless, so he said, and why should impecunious infantry subalterns support in idleness a disgraced and virtually dismissed officer? A Wounded Name The three men too, drawn to one another by a conservative instinct at sight of Cornudet, talked money in a certain tone of contempt for the impecunious. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories The real inference is, I take it, that the demand which was springing up attracted a great many impecunious persons, who became the drudges of the rising class of booksellers. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Bridgie’s handwriting confronted her; but she had hardly time to marvel how so costly a gift could come from such an impecunious donor, before surprise number two confronted her in the opening words. More about Pixie "Now, let me see," the impecunious man demanded as he buttonholed an acquaintance, "do I owe you anything?" Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers "I'd not load one of them with a wild, impecunious Irishman like myself." Shorty McCabe on the Job Had I not known his honour to be a wealthy man, I should have supposed him an impecunious person with no income to maintain his property. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 It was at this point that the versatile, speculative, and impecunious Steele hit upon his famous discovery. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century He spoke very simply, as another man might speak of being ready to meet an improvement-rate or an application from an impecunious brother. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House At the same time it is scarcely to be avoided that this wholly dependent and impecunious mass of the population must be given an appreciably better education than they have today. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Mary Antin's vivid description of all she and her dear ones went through, enables us to see almost with our own eyes how the invasion of America appears to the impecunious invader. From Plotzk to Boston The father, unlike the usual stern parent who repels impecunious musicians, gave his permission for their union, which took place soon after, in 1836. Woman's Work in Music They'll spend their time looking for some impecunious member of the smart set who might have done the job. R. Holmes & Co. Miss S. herself was all but caught by the idea, and went so far as to say that she had never thought highly of Madame Zabriska, while the Major was known to be impecunious. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House This offer was gratefully accepted by the bereaved and impecunious widow, who, with her child, soon became domiciled beneath the roof of the uncle and the socially abused aunt. Bucholz and the Detectives When examination time came we hired an impecunious coach and, retiring from the world, acquired in five days knowledge that our fellows had taken eight months to imbibe. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble G. G. Grady, an impecunious circus proprietor, found his colossal aggregation without a band wagon and no funds to purchase one. Watch Yourself Go By His entrance had snapped the tension between his impecunious step-nephew and the painter. White Ashes He dispensed far more patronage than the delegate to Congress, as he was constantly besieged by a class of impecunious patriots to "put 'em on the next one." Marion's Faith. All this riot of wealth would no doubt impress the impecunious Charles. Henry VIII. In short, I made myself generally known in the locality and planted the seed of cupidity in the hearts of several hundreds of impecunious persons. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble As the Union armies advanced, thousands of unemployed and impecunious colored people sought refuge in the District of Columbia. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis They had been impecunious, trading upon other people's funds to begin with, and Carey's Bank's failure only left them where they were originally, under circumstances in which no reasonable person would expect redress from them. A Houseful of Girls Well, it was a great chumming game well played—played before a lot of men who were as avaricious as impecunious gamblers always are. Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field They were all in a very impecunious condition, for there was some difficulty in getting their pay and, in Paris, money did not last long. The Great War As I Saw It Ben Dudley also had a problem to face in reference to the ball—a problem which has troubled impecunious youth since balls were invented—the problem of clothes. The Colonel's Dream Virginia was especially clamorous for places, and Vice-President Tyler became the champion of hundreds who belonged to the first families, but who were impecunious. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis They must "make good" by themselves, like any other Tom and Gill, and Milly married to an impecunious newspaper artist would not be a social asset for the Star. One Woman's Life Recently, her engagement to an impecunious peer was announced. The Captain of the Kansas Those impecunious painters who haunt the open-air restaurants at Monte Carlo, on the chance of selling a five-minute portrait, had buzzed round her like bees round a honey-pot, but they were not the only ones. The Guests Of Hercules He was no longer the acute, blustering, effusive Verity, who in one summer's afternoon had secured a rich partner and forced an impecunious sailor to throw away a worn-out ship. The Stowaway Girl The system seems to be a very fair one, and in time of stress is certainly a boon to the impecunious Navaho. The North American Indian He could not reconcile Tweet's present impecunious condition with his hints of past affluence. The She Boss A Western Story So is the world's eccentric round of joy complete When happy tourist-traveler, no more to roam, His fascinating, thrilling story shall repeat To impecunious, luckless multitudes who greet The tourist home. Poems Vol. IV Really, his father, a stout but impecunious horse-dealer of the name of Budgett, certainly in exile at Boulogne owing to a standing difference with the bankruptcy laws of his country, was alive still. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World But the attractive woman, though she liked me a little, weighed the pros and cons exactly as I had done, and decided not to take her constitutional in my impecunious company. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron During 1759 the Critical Review published a number of Goldsmith's articles which probably enabled the impecunious author to effect his removal from the garret in Salisbury Square to the famous lodgings in Green Arbour Court. Early Reviews of English Poets At Antequera the castle is Moorish, though built on Roman foundations, and it is only of recent years that the mosque has disappeared under the "protection" of an impecunious governor. Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond It is the story of ambitious but impecunious youth. The Ghost of Jerry Bundler Lord Chiltern had come there about money, and it occurred to him that the impecunious young barrister might already be in some scrape on that head. Phineas Redux Gay's project concerning his new found protégée was such as would only have entered into the brain of a dreamy and impecunious poet. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' She came from an impecunious family whose lineage was older and greater than his. Suzanna Stirs the Fire It made her a little nervous; for although in the old impecunious days she went on all necessary errands in the morning alone, she rarely left the house after sundown even with a companion. A Crooked Path A Novel Their return with a fortune of pelts was the salvation of the impecunious governor. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark At uncertain periods Wesley Elliot had been visited by a migratory colporteur, and less frequently by impecunious persons representing themselves to be fellow warriors on the walls of Zion, temporarily out of ammunition. An Alabaster Box Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters This accretion of wealth took several years; some of the older men grew richer, and took to themselves wives and villas; the ranks were always filled up by more impecunious bachelors. A Dozen Ways Of Love The impecunious cousin of his aunt's who had come to her during her last illness acted as his housekeeper. The Portion of Labor No one knows how many of the tiny gilt bindings covered stories told by impecunious writers, to whom the proceeds in times of starvation were bread if not butter. Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book The impecunious poet no longer extols the princess, the wife of his lord and master. The Evolution of Love She had been a well-born girl, the daughter of aristocratic but impecunious and extravagant parents. Bella Donna A Novel Without her, the one might have remained a "petit mâitre priestling;" the other merely a soured, cross-grained, impecunious country squire: Rome would have had no tragedy to talk about, nor we this book to read. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Mrs. Doty was the woman who let out wrappers to her impecunious neighbors with an undaunted heart. The Portion of Labor The time may come when the rich man’s son will consider it an honor to drive the car for his impecunious classmate. The Vitalized School Miss Greendale is known to be an only daughter, and an heiress, and some other impecunious scamp may have conceived the idea of making a bold stroke for her fortune. The Queen's Cup The fourth member of the group was Franck, a painter from Silesia, an impecunious eccentric, upon whose talents his comrades placed an extremely high estimate. Atlantis It had seemed highly probable that there might be discomforts in an ancient farmhouse of the kind likely to be lent to impecunious relatives. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" His brothers, sifters and cousins are impecunious, and in small communities poor relations are not easily got rid of. Town Life in Australia Cuthbert was no longer the impecunious son of Nicholas Trevlyn, dependent upon his own wit and energy for the place he might hold in the world. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot He can't hamper himself by marriage with an impecunious musician who isn't able to pull wires and help him on. The Moon out of Reach I had so long of being impecunious, that I particularly enjoy feeling bottomless! The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year He was always in impecunious circumstances despite his legal eloquence, but the lack of a balance at his banker's never troubled him. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent From Bow even unto Hammersmith there draggled a dull, wretched vapour, like the wraith of an impecunious suicide come into a fortune immediately after the fatal deed. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes There was a small bedroom upstairs, plainly but comfortably furnished, which was often used for impecunious patients who needed to remain under observation for a day or two. Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular The family was wofully impecunious; so when the daughters, Maria and Elizabeth, grew into marvellously comely maidens, their mother urged their going on the stage to augment the faulty fortune. Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment "That, my dear boy, invariably happens to an impecunious fellow who marries a rich wife." The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year He was merely a self-centered, impecunious, improvident Irishman, indifferently skillful, whose vanity and self-indulgence had driven his son off into a vague green world, God alone knew where. Kenny A love of starlight, violins, and dancing, a temperament easily provoked to a laughing abandon of life's tragedy characterizes the folk of Vermland and the impecunious gentry who live in its modest manor halls. Jerusalem Old Tyson had bought the house as it stood from an impecunious nobleman, supplying its deficiencies according to his own very respectable fancy. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) This appointment was a boon to the impecunious young attorney. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics A protracted war, which would lead merely to the lasting impoverishment of Germany, would bring about the economic annihilation of impecunious Austria. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 When I, good friends, was called to the Bar, I'd an appetite fresh and hearty, But I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party. Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs We bought soldiers and sailors to fight them from impecunious German and Hanoverian princes. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon It did more than this for the impecunious composer. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers So, after all, in spite of double leads and the full column, the runaways could continue their impromptu honeymoon without fear of parents, duchess, or a rescue charge from that thin, red, and impecunious line. The Younger Set It was exceedingly inconvenient, for she was needed everywhere as usual, but gloves and boots must be replenished, even by impecunious heroines. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 On her hands and bosom a number of fine emeralds flashed, for events had shown in the end that the impecunious young lover was not fated to dabble in stocks in vain. The Wheel of Life He was educated at Eton and Leyden: but his branch of the family being decidedly impecunious, was thrown very much on his own resources. The English Novel I am an impecunious young man, and, the other day, on seeing this Advertisement in the Times, I was seized with a wild desire to "at once secure above reward." Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, April 2, 1892 Although it does strive as far as possible to lower the barriers which lack of means so often places in the path of talent, yet it is not intended primarily for the impecunious. Edward MacDowell He took it on the long tail-end of a lease from an impecunious landlord who couldn't afford to keep it up. The Belfry And yet there was no bitterness in the dismay with which he contemplated his present forlorn and impecunious state. The Divine Fire He was a neighbor of hers, this audacious youth, though not of Washington Street; impecunious, and hence negligible; moreover somewhat notorious of late for a too vivid behavior: the distant bowing acquaintance of many years. V. V.'s Eyes The Government, which is always impecunious, owing to corruption, had left its teachers unpaid for many months. The Problem of China In another letter he pays his compliments to Connecticut thus: "Their impecunious meanness surpasses belief." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen That night the boys at the saloon wrinkled their brows like unto an impecunious Committee of Ways and Means, as they vainly endeavored to surmise why Grump could want that young man as a lodger. Romance of California Life From the calmness of his manner you would have supposed that salaried appointments hung on every lamp-post, ready to drop into the mouths of impecunious young men of letters. The Divine Fire Indeed, the situation was almost ideal for an impecunious young man of letters. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Other debtors of this impecunious king could get nothing; every thing went into Pompey's purse, and the whole country was drained of coin to the very uttermost. Roman life in the days of Cicero There was the house fly, the horse fly, the dangerous blue-bottle, the impecunious blow fly, the indefatigable buzzer, and others. Across China on Foot The expenses alone, of a journey to the state capital, would strain to the breaking point the means of some of the more impecunious. The Rules of the Game So that Mackinnon was not slow to perceive the advantages of an alliance with impecunious brilliance. The Divine Fire I could pick out a score of impecunious fellows from the clubs who would be only too glad to earn a hundred or two in any way you can mention. The Firm of Girdlestone The old palace is not kept wholly for show, but is made useful in the political economy of the kingdom by furnishing a retreat to impecunious members of the oligarchy. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 You never belonged to the people: you belonged to the impecunious. Back to Methuselah The rhyme under this cover in which the impecunious knight did not "overpraise" himself bore the title "How the Good Knight protected Sir Slosson's Credit," and was well calculated to fill me with forebodings. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 It is needless to say that Field got the second advance and succeeded in dodging all impecunious "old boys" on the way home. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 These three worked day and night buying in stones from the more needy and impecunious miners, to whom ready money was a matter of absolute necessity. The Firm of Girdlestone So it came about that his mail was burdened with begging letters, and his life made miserable by appeals from impecunious persons, good and bad, and from churches, societies and associations without number. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great And the impecunious papers show blanks in the places where the truth was too clearly written. Light But underneath the corner light Lingered the impecunious Knight— Wet, hungry and alone— Hoping that from Sir Slosson some Encouragement mayhap would come, Or from the Fair Unknown. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 Hogan was not a brave man, but this demand, in his impecunious condition, instead of terrifying him, struck his sense of humor as an exceedingly good joke. Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake In Great Britain, Norway, to a certain extent in Germany, South America, and even distant Australia, the adventurous and impecunious were pricking up their ears and laying their plans. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado Here in TJ, impecunious as she was, she couldn't have bought anything major had she wanted to. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America He had faced the enemy, the bleak winters, raw soldiers, and all the difficulties of impecunious government, with a cheerful courage that never failed. George Washington, Volume I I should have said that she received all of it that the ingenious and impecunious Eugene had not managed to forestall. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 "I was in no need of money," said Procter, "and I declined the gift; but it was hard work to make Lamb believe that I was not in an impecunious condition." Yesterdays with Authors I applied to Reese, telling him who the young men were, and describing their broken and impecunious condition. California Sketches, Second Series Randolph was known to be impecunious, but his personal honor had never been suspected. George Washington If he ever managed to get a little money, he was likely to spend it at once and to become as impecunious as before. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 He recollected that her marriage to an impecunious young artist had caused some sensation in Society at the time. The Moon Rock On one occasion, and one only, in the whole year were the gates of the Manor thrown open to all comers, opulent Americans and impecunious Britons alike. The Knave of Diamonds I was beginning to wonder what part I should be expected to play in the tragedy which was being unfolded before me by this lovely and impecunious creature. Castles in the Air To an impecunious minister, with a large family to educate, it was a tempting offer. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe She was a charming, lovable girl of nineteen engaged to an impecunious young lieutenant a few years older. The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War When the other impecunious young nobles heard that the Duchesse no longer had any claims upon the American's money they got together and said, 'Somebody must marry her and divide with the rest. As Seen By Me After three years of stagnation the Company was as exasperated and impecunious as the settlers. The Long White Cloud It is not conceivable that such a ridiculous display of impecunious justice would be made elsewhere in the country. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" If the Primary students are still impecunious, it is their own fault, and this ill-success of itself leaves them unprepared to enter higher classes. Rudimental Divine Science At first glance he guessed she might be the wife of some impecunious musician, come to plead for restitution of an instrument. True Tilda He was very amusing, very happy, very thoughtless, and as a rule altogether impecunious. Mr. Scarborough's Family Many of the impecunious newcomers schemed against me because I could not furnish them all with light work and heavy pay. The Gentleman from Everywhere In this impecunious condition he had fallen in love with and married Lydia Coleman, a true-hearted Quaker girl, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, one singularly fitted to help him make his way in life. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous In the course of time he sufficiently recovered from his violent passion for Ida to allow him to make a brilliant marriage with the only daughter of an impecunious peer. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life In addition to these quarters and the boxes, there were two galleries reserved for the common herd, but into which, no doubt, impecunious beaux, down in the heels and at the mouth, would frequently stray. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield When Prince Louis Napoleon was living in impecunious exile in London he had been a constant guest at Lady Blessington's hospitable and brilliant but Bohemian house. Collections and Recollections He was an intelligent, impecunious, pleasant kind of man, still, like his host, on the sunny side of forty. From out the Vasty Deep In New York she gave an impecunious author five hundred dollars to publish his book, and, of course, never received a dollar in return. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous So she was not altogether sorry when the impecunious soldier-husband, whom Nelly had personally preferred, was reported missing, thus leaving that to chance once again open. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 His turning the screw during those relatively impecunious years represents, I am pretty sure, the only act of resolution of his life. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 In the great metropolis there was an impecunious and popular member of Uppertendom whose name had been appearing in the society journals with great frequency for years. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life And Varick could not now be regarded as impecunious; he was a man of substance, though no doubt even his present income would seem as nothing compared with the Brabazon fortune. From out the Vasty Deep Here, in the house of this officer--an eccentric and impecunious man, but a most loyal friend--I was discovered by Major Barton and dragged to prison. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction "That doesn't strike me as a very long-headed proceeding," I remarked, with the impartial wisdom of the impecunious, and therefore untempted. The Red Thumb Mark Comparing it mentally with the poky Chelsea flat where I and my sister kept impecunious house, I realized other points as well. The Damned He knew that in impecunious churches willing candidates for vestry honors were rare, and he, therefore, properly saved himself for future use. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life Ballad: The Judge's Song When I, good friends, was called to the Bar, I'd an appetite fresh and hearty, But I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party. Songs of a Savoyard Had I been "La-di-da," that impecunious youth about whom we superior folk are so sarcastic, I would have changed my penny for two ha'pennies. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow It then presently becomes impracticable to accumulate wealth by simple seizure, and, in logical consistency, acquisition by industry is equally impossible for high minded and impecunious men. Theory of the Leisure Class A versatile and entertaining companion, by turns prosperous and impecunious, and an optimist always, Gardiner Hubbard became a really indispensable factor as the first advance agent of the telephone business. The History of the Telephone Like many another town which frankly confesses itself to be a "city of the third class," Dumfries Corners is not only well provided but somewhat overburdened with impecunious institutions of a public and semi-public nature. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life But I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan America had in these days been so little explored by the thrifty impecunious well-born that its ingenuous sentimentality in certain matters was by no means comprehended. The Shuttle Hence results a class of impecunious gentlemen of leisure, incidentally referred to already. Theory of the Leisure Class My mother, knowing my disposition, said she had no wish for such a chit as me to go falling in love with an impecunious student, and spirited me away to Baden. The Woodlanders Also, the impecunious spongers at his clubs spread his fame as a "tight-wad" because he refused to let them "stick him up" for even a round of drinks. The Price She Paid It was with the help of this simple piece of mechanism and a good long pull from Eyraud that the impecunious couple hoped to refill their pockets. A Book of Remarkable Criminals YOU have been far, and I Been farther yet, Since last, in foul or fair An impecunious pair, Below this northern sky Of ours, we met. New Poems That is to say, it inhibits activity in the directions in which the impecunious members of the community habitually put forth their efforts. Theory of the Leisure Class What a blessed change for the impecunious swell when all this went out of fashion! Worldly Ways and Byways No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town. Buttered Side Down: Stories Hence his surprise at hearing that Castaing, whom he knew to be impecunious, was investing such a sum as 8,000 francs. A Book of Remarkable Criminals They applied their eyes to the glass in turn, and were engaged in examining some very handsome diamonds, which had no doubt been offered in lieu of money by some noble but impecunious foreigner. The Count's Millions It was then—after an interval of repose with compassionate but impecunious American friends in Paris—that Miss Viner had been drawn into the turbid current of Mrs. Murrett's career. The Reef The bulldozers as a class are more impecunious and irresponsible than the negroes, and, unlike the negroes, they will not work. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue The banns were proclaimed immediately after the betrothal, and a month later Herr Weigand, in his capacity of son-in-law, could take possession of the same garret which he had inhabited as an impecunious guest. The Indian Lily and Other Stories Livingston had been with him at Harvard, and Livingston's family was so notoriously not impecunious that the question was devoid of any personal element. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation In some places the imposition of a poll tax peacefully eliminated the impecunious freedman. The United States Since the Civil War Alas, that concerts and operas and oratorios should not be as free to the impecunious as the National Gallery and the British Museum—a privilege which is not abused! Peter Ibbetson Thinking of the matter in this way, it seemed that we owed our love stories to the impecunious artist, who had probably spent his eighty pounds and forgotten me by this time. It Happened in Egypt For at his very first call upon them, Miss Marvell had divined his impecunious state, and pounced upon him as an agent,—unknown, he thought, to Miss Blanchflower. Delia Blanchflower "Say, old man," he asked Herbert Delancey Livingston one night, across the table at their college club, "are all the people in New York society impecunious?" The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation In fact, I regard it as positively inconsiderate in any impecunious young person to venture to upset me in the way she has done. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking What, they asked her, would be her life with a husband as eccentric, extravagant, and impecunious, as they believed Balzac to be? Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings The business of catching impecunious counts, of magnetizing bankrupt marquises, and of plucking penniless princes, as practised by American women, appears to absorb all the attention in Rome at present. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870 There could be no room for the métier adopted by several impecunious English ladies of title—that of foisting anyone, however unsuitable, upon society and their friends for a well-gilded consideration. His Hour That he should have mistaken me for a great financial magnate controlling some one of these colossal industries, instead of locating me instantly as a staid, gray-haired, and rather impecunious landscape-painter, was quite natural. The Under Dog It was a troublous, harassing time for him, that summer of 1784, and the more since the woes of the distracted lover were added to those of the disappointed playwright and the impecunious debtor. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller One of the habituees of Madame Gay's salon was the Duchesse d'Abrantes; and between her and Balzac there existed a literary comradeship, possibly cemented by the impecunious condition which was common to both. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings We gathered hints of, caught in passing smiling allusion to, straitened and impecunious early years. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 People who had once been Captain Paget's fast friends seemed to have simultaneously decided upon spending their existence out of doors, as it appeared to the impecunious Captain. Birds of Prey Here we have," he said at last, "an impecunious prince who marries an American heiress, as so many of them do. Jennie Baxter, Journalist The labors of Larcher and Tompkins elicited nothing; lightened though they were by the impecunious lawyer's tact, knowledge, and good humor, they left the young men dispirited and dead tired. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day He spoke very much as her impecunious father might have spoken. The Golden Calf Here it was that Charles Cotton, the careless, impecunious poet, the friend of Isaac Walton, was wont to conceal himself from his creditors. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe And, though a certain benevolent aunt had entered into his impecunious position, and had sent him an inconsiderable sum, still he begged me to assist him in getting his equipment. A Desperate Character and Other Stories It exists, of course, but it rarely falls in the way of the usually impecunious art student. The Face and the Mask Allen was the impecunious son of the Squire's sister who had married badly. Revenge! There were times when she would have been glad to be impecunious again, and running after her faithful Lizette, who had every possible failing except that of being superior to her mistress. The Golden Calf To the cards of to-day is appended, "No presents received," which is a relief to the impecunious. Manners and Social Usages I fancy it would be a simple matter, sir, to find some impecunious author who would be glad to do the actual composition of the volume for a small fee. My Man Jeeves A joint of mutton, cold and mangled, was discernible, however, when Henrietta descended to put her impecunious case before the landlady and, gazing at it, the girl saw also her opportunity. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing I suspect that the Pessimist is often merely an impecunious bankrupt Optimist. Impressions and Comments Hortense's contempt for the semi- rustic and impecunious Cope became boundless. Bertram Cope's Year He had known it, and of a bitter sort, in those impecunious days when the Second Charles, whose steps he guided, was a needy, homeless outcast. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series The first scene disclosed Mrs. Hardup, a widow lady, lamenting her lack of means, and regretting that her son, Augustus, should have engaged himself to Isabella, a charming but utterly impecunious damsel. Monitress Merle Since Mrs. Fontage had to be kept from starving by means not wholly defensible, it was better that the obligation should be borne by a rich institution than an impecunious youth. Crucial Instances Mr. Vanderbank, I'm assured, has no means of his own at all, and if he doesn't believe in impecunious marriages it's not I who shall be shocked at him. The Awkward Age But he began life after that impecunious fashion for which the Greystocks have been noted. The Eustace Diamonds "The Democratic Review," which was still edited by O'Sullivan, a warm friend though editorially impecunious, received the remaining tales and sketches with a few exceptions. Nathaniel Hawthorne He will not generously forget, even for an instant, that he is an impecunious dry goods clerk, she a lady of rank and riches. A Terrible Secret James Mesurier was unapproachably its present summit, its Alpine peak; and he was made to suffer for it no little by humble and impecunious relatives. Young Lives The Murray correspondence contains many characteristic letters from this jovial and impecunious Irishman. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 Truly such a temptation to enrich themselves without fear of detection was never till this occasion set before two impecunious subalterns of the British Army. A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 He had faced," says Henry Cabot Lodge, in his interesting life of Washington, "the enemy, the bleak winters, raw soldiers, and all the difficulties of impecunious government, with a cheerful courage that never failed. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders And, as a rule, ladies of wealth and title don't throw themselves away on impecunious dry goods clerks. A Terrible Secret Here I am, your grace, an impecunious but determined man. The Turquoise Cup, and, the Desert Probably a large and pleasantly impecunious family, with one special daughter who combines great practical sense with rare personal charm. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917 It's a grand thing for a paper to be as impecunious as the Croppy. Hyacinth In this, the last rough resting place of the impecunious dead, do you dare to discuss commonplace topics with one of the departed? Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870 The porter, unused to dealing with the obtrusive impecunious type to which he believed Mr. Kemp to belong, made the mistake of trying to argue with him. The Hampstead Mystery Colonel Musgrave continued to emanate an air of contentment which fell perilously short of fatuity; and that Patricia was honestly fond of him was evident to the most impecunious of Lichfield's bachelors. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations For all you know he may be the descendant of some impecunious sire of a lordly house. A Beautiful Possibility It differs from impecunious persons inasmuch as it is a burrowing, not a borrowing, creature. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 In the ten years after Alexander Baynes' death, every impecunious aristocrat in the civilized world must have made his dash for the matrimonial pole. The Prince and Betty From my knowledge of the worthless and impecunious character of the debtor, I am of opinion that Fink never received a cent in the way of reimbursement. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales Professional kidnappers do not select the sons of impecunious ministers for their prey. Average Jones His aristocratic friends had temporarily deserted him, but the Hunts assisted him with the ready liberality of the impecunious. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century How is the old Tadpole, the wily banker, the impecunious toiler among heaps of gold? Canada for Gentlemen And yet, with the sale accomplished and he rich beyond his wildest dreams, he was precisely the same man in bearing, manner, and speech that he had been in his impecunious days in Bedford Place. Colonel Carter of Cartersville In those days twelve thousand pounds was a very big sum of money indeed to an impecunious country gentleman, and a considerable sum even to a man as rich as Clive. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography The lady in the case was Miss Fox, ward and niece of the landlord with whom the impecunious printer boarded. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers The impecunious hero, tearing it open, produces from it a roll of stage banknotes, and forthwith gives way to demonstrations of the most extravagant delight, upon which the curtain falls. Entertainments for Home, Church and School Let the improvident literary hack, the starved impecunious Grub Street debtor, the newspaper frequenter of sponging- houses, remember this in their criticisms of the vile and slavish Yankee. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers We may plead moreover for these impecunious heirs of the past that even if it were easy to be clean in the midst of their mouldering heritage it would be difficult to appear so. Italian Hours We keep the word and often use it as in "pecuniary" affairs, and when we call a moneyless man, "impecunious." Business Hints for Men and Women He, too, was impecunious, but he had a home in London, and knew but little of the sort of penury which I endured. Autobiography of Anthony Trollope They even lent money to impecunious gentlemen who couldn't believe their senses and went about pinching themselves. Her Weight in Gold The act of a polluted, impecunious, parsimonious,—what shall I say? Green Fancy He, the impecunious one,—the one whose impecuniosity extended to the absolute want of credit,—sat silent, stroking his heavy moustache. The Way We Live Now On returning to Paris at the end of March my sole anxiety was how to repair my impecunious and therefore hopeless position. My Life — Volume 2 Each year had brought new additions to the impecunious group about Mynheer's table. The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Many millions in gold had she, but even the most impecunious of noblemen had given them a wide berth,—reluctantly, perhaps. Her Weight in Gold Mr. Marten was a hirsute and impecunious young Hebrew of low tastes, with a passion for mineralogy. South Wind I'm impecunious; but if you were to pink out the two most hopeless men in London in regard to money, they would be old Grendall and young Carbury. The Way We Live Now It had been with the impecunious theological student who was her tutor. The Pit It began with a contribution from the first impecunious painter in payment of an overdue board-bill, his painting being hung on a nail beside the clock. The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Young Mr. Ten Eyck was the most impecunious spendthrift in Essex. Her Weight in Gold He was the prey of adventurers, and the providence of impecunious poets such as Pope and Swift. Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries Grasslough, also, was impecunious; but he had a father,—also impecunious, indeed; but with them the matter would not be hopeless. The Way We Live Now A sprinkling of maidens who were neither lonely nor impecunious served to attract young men, generally strugglers in some profession or other, on the lookout for a wife. The Odd Women When their friendship had ripened through a twelvemonth, Franks, always impecunious, cheerily borrowed a five-pound note; not long after, he mirthfully doubled his debt; and this grew to a habit with him. Will Warburton Young Mr. Ten Eyck was the most impecunious spendthrift in Essex. Her Weight in Gold Histology, morphology, and aetiology are whims too costly for impecunious students. At the Mercy of Tiberius It was his business to know other people's business, and he knew that Lord Dreever was impecunious, and depended for supplies entirely on a prehensile uncle. The Intrusion of Jimmy The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this. The Leavenworth Case As he read it over, Philip thought what a fine advertisement it is to every impecunious noble in Europe. That Fortune The relationship was on the impecunious paternal side, and for this branch of her family the lady of the estate had never evinced much sympathy. Desperate Remedies The laboring men—the impecunious adventurers whom these greater adventurers brought out—would form a tenantry, the Lord Proprietary's men's men. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings |
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