| 单词 | penury |
| 例句 | It could be that this penury was the catalyst for Bobby’s often-criticized “greediness” later in his career. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was poor and lived in utter penury. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny found myriad avenues of distraction from his family’s penury. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z All the while, our gaunt house by the garden descended ever more into penury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With the closure of the port, most of the College’s income was stopped up and its investments nullified; and so to anxiety was added penury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Along with the pressures of living together came penury. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z All went well until 1848, when the factory burned down and the family was reduced to penury. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The beaten, humiliated Kaan lost the support of its vassals and was reduced to penury. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My sister's body was committed to a pauper's pit and interned in an unmarked grave along with a dozen other forgotten victims of penury. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Latterly his condition deteriorated, exacerbated by dementia and penury. Peter Hofmann obituary 2010-12-02T18:44:00Z Two years after their deaths, her father died, and the posthumous revelation of his bad investments reduced the Wrays' upper-middle-class lifestyle to penury. Sarah Waters mixes crime and romantic strangers in 'Paying Guests' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The day after, at Sotheby’s, the art penury was even more blatant. Tracking the Elusive Masters 2010-07-09T14:30:00Z The unrest scared away applicants and sent Princeton into “penury and stagnation,” he adds. Antiques: Princeton?s Faculty Room and Britain?s Rail Posters 2010-05-27T21:29:00Z Rather, she values her own happiness so much that she won’t tie herself to someone who endangers it, even if he can save her family from penury. Review: In This ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ Love Is a Zero-Sum Game 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Even as a nearby mine is closed by the greedy Warleggans, sending the workers into penury and prompting the owner to kill himself, Ross is hoping to re-open his family’s shuttered mine, Wheal Leisure. 'Poldark' Episode 2 Recap: Triumph v. Torment 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Living in near penury in the south of France in his mid-40s, he looks back at his great successes and squalid defeats at the hands of the establishment. The importance of being Oscar: how Rupert Everett found a cause 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z As he struggles to earn a living without a law license, he frets he’s doomed to penury, just like his dad. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 8: ‘What Have I Done?’ 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Then, with impeccable timing, came this week's sun-kissed announcement of the long-pending first round of government cuts, Tory chancellor George Osborne ushering in the new age of penury. The view: The arts funding cuts are no problem - British film is best when it keeps it real 2010-05-28T11:39:00Z And I was stealing train, a leading indicator of being in writer penury. Down and out in Portland: Lean seasons had always been part of my writing life, but this time I was dead broke 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z But it’s not the terror of penury, either. The Bullshit-Job Boom 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z It's a phrase that can be taken a couple of ways, so to clear up any ambiguity, I specifically refer to the unfortunate gentleman's current state of penury. Chris Moyles is not the first: A history of on-air rants 2010-09-23T16:46:00Z And if I lose everything, my very penury may, statistically speaking, push some of my fellow countrymen above the poverty line. Do you hate football and want to help the poor? Take up gambling 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z His asides and observations, as he witnesses his master’s vertiginous fall into penury and madness, are as rueful as they are clever and cogent. A ‘King Lear’ that hasn’t fully flowered, at Seattle Shakes 2014-05-01T16:58:52Z When Tom barges into her apartment, he is taken aback by the penury of her living situation. Elisabeth Moss, Carey Mulligan share a sensibility on separate stages 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The buildings they constructed for themselves, dictated by penury, tended to sag after a few years, as if worn down by the humidity or just the weight of living. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z As Nick pushes Tom ever further down the path of debauchery, and eventually penury, the tears in the paper walls multiply. Review: A ‘Rake’s Progress’ for a Fame-Hungry Internet Age 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Robert the liberator was a disinterested ruler who spent the crown into penury. Game of Thrones Watch: The Walking Dead 2013-04-29T09:45:04Z Still living in penury and haunted by his debts, he settled for a time in Balham, where he forced himself to submit to "a mundane routine of working, thinking and writing". 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z Lady Bracknell proudly announces that by marrying a man of means she did not let penury stand in her way. The Importance of Being Earnest 2010-06-11T20:29:00Z There was much soul-searching in the early years about whether he risked eternal penury by taking the harder path of doing only the work he wanted to do. A life in shapes 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z That is, recovering actors who have renounced hunger and penury. Lust and torque at the auto show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The duchess died in penury, at 80, in a London retirement home. A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Having dispossessed them and pushed them into a downward spiral of indigence, in a cruel sleight of hand the government began to use their own penury against them. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z As the Confederacy lurches toward defeat, the group’s numbers increase, drawing other deserters, runaway slaves, and farmers reduced to penury, and Newton turns the band into an effective fighting force. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z As Debra battled depression prompted by her sister’s murder, the couple slid into penury. How Billy Strings Picked His Way to the Other Side 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z As the scion of an upper-crust family fallen into shameful penury, he has to keep up appearances. A ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Focuses on an Unlikely Character 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Scandal, riches, penury — the Dublin-born Boucicault knew each of those states from the inside, and was brilliant at weaving them into luridly entertaining melodramas. Review: ‘The Streets of New York’ Is a Good Old Melodrama 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z When penury eventually forces him to borrow money, Aubrey repays the loan with valuable books. Finally, a biography of the man who invented biography 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Mark has a girlfriend, Lisa, also an addict, and various friends and relatives, all of whose lives are in varying states of penury and decay. Review: ‘The Other Side,’ a Harrowing Visit With People on the Margins 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Then came a backlash, with Lumley and her fellow champions accused of encouraging retired Gurkhas to live in penury in the UK. Observer Ethical Awards 2013: Joanna Lumley – National Campaigner of the Year 2013-06-15T23:07:16Z This one is Tom Rakewell, whose spendthrift ways lead to penury and madness. Cultured Traveler: In London, Private Homes on Display 2010-12-31T19:55:00Z Pay off the debt by 2015 so that the curse of constant penury is lifted from our children's children? Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky 2010-07-24T23:25:00Z The same was true of his odd combination of penury and generosity. Sean Connery, Who Embodied James Bond and More, Dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Conspicuously absent from all this is the Social Realist side of the coin: the drudgery and penury from which so many city dwellers longed to be liberated. Art Review: ?Art for All? at the Yale Center for British Art 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z Having enjoyed a certain standard of living, they are suddenly, shockingly thrust into penury. Love is Strange: John Lithgow delivers a subtle tour de force – first look review 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z These characters offer insights into Satie’s childhood and his years of quasi penury and anonymity in fin de siècle Paris. The Bohemian Life of the French Composer Erik Satie Imagined as a Novel 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The result was the loss of his job, social ostracism and penury. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z He died in penury, and they built the National Gallery over his grave. TV review: The New Normal; Silent Witness; Carved With Love: The Genius of British Woodwork 2013-01-10T22:15:04Z Yet in music it is a reality: rewards are so low relatively that British musicians are already being driven into exile or penury. Letters: Art attacks a threat to civilised society 2011-01-12T00:04:01Z In the heyday of Grub Street, books and penury went hand in hand. Will a spell in prison free Chris Huhne's inner novelist? 2013-03-18T15:00:27Z Four great reasons to watch Horace and Pete What you may not immediately associate both gentlemen with, given their successes of the last decade, is penury and bankruptcy. Do Louis CK and Kanye West belong in the pantheon of artistic hubris? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The great promise of technical mastery of the world has led to increasing inequality, and for many, penury and new forms of peonage. Review | The American Worker: Exploited from the beginning 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z "You know not how the system works and condemn yourself to penury," the Chief replies, setting sail for Batavia. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 2010-05-10T23:05:00Z To hide her penury, she never let anyone in her room. The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The boy’s uncle, who published a volume of verses before drifting into bitterness and penury as a journalist, is a grim specter of literary failure. Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z If that’s true, what conceivable difference could it make whether a few of the dinosaur oil and gas companies want to merge and go into the abyss of bankruptcy and penury holding hands? Senate Democrats announce their support for higher energy prices 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z I first visited Moscow four decades ago, when it was a city devoid of primary colors eking out existence in the penury of Communism. Putin’s Forever War 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z But those generalized formulas mask the potential for real pain and penury in American households in which efforts to “soften” labor conditions translate into layoffs and pay cuts. Column: Wage growth doesn't drive inflation. So why is the Fed out to crush workers? 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Raye has been an outspoken critic of the industry after spending nearly a decade in record label penury, unable to release an album without their say-so. Ivor Novello Awards: Harry Styles wins, Raye calls out music industry greed 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z This was sweet vindication for the years of penury and insult to the women’s game, but it also brought scrutiny and tension. Perspective | Caitlin Clark, Iowa’s incandescent star, was everything against South Carolina 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Grazier was by all accounts a person of resolute independence, committed to his art even when it consigned him to penury. John Grazier, penniless artist of striking perspective, dies at 76 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z A better showman than businessman, Lou gyrated between wealth and penury. Barbara Walters, TV’s tireless pursuer of the newsmaker ‘get,’ dies at 93 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Other governments, like Cuba under Fidel Castro, survived but fell into penury. For China’s Xi and Other Strongmen, Gorbachev Showed Exactly What Not to Do 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The penury is the knock-on effect of a heat wave and resulting crop damage last year in Canada, which supplies around 80% of the mustard seeds used in France. French shoppers face life without Dijon mustard 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z And his days of penury are far behind: His vast business interests, acquired during his time in politics, include a 2,500-acre farm, a luxury hotel and a giant poultry plant. William Ruto is the self-proclaimed champion of Kenya’s ‘hustler nation.’ 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Whatever the reason — fear of penury in old age or a work ethic that is “coded in the national DNA,” as a Cleveroad manager put it — Ukraine seems to burst with entrepreneurial drive. The Economy Putin Didn’t Actually Ruin 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z English roads teemed with men turned vagrant by penury; Spain was on the cusp of war. Laurie Lee’s classic vagabond tale channels joy on the open road 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Burma, once lauded for its fine schools and polyglot cosmopolitanism, sank into penury. Worldly, charming and quietly equipping a brutal military 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The differences between the sides concern the largest matters of penury or prosperity, sickness or health, death or life. Opinion | Ideologues exist on the left and the right. Only one side threatens the country. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z “In the Revolution, there was a penury of bread, there was not enough of it,” he said. Possible rise in baguette prices poses crunch for the French 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z It had been replaced by entrants such as Monopoly, which rewarded winners with riches, punished losers with penury and became one of the top-selling board games in the United States during the Depression. Reuben Klamer, toy inventor who created the Game of Life, dies at 99 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z My prison is just 100 kilometers from Moscow, but still the feeling hangs in the air: penury, the absence of a future. Read Excerpts From Navalny’s Interview With The Times 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z He asserted that only his inheritance of the family farm stood between him and penury: “If I hadn’t inherited some property that finally paid things through, I’d be on relief right now.” Column: Trump will get millions in post-presidential benefits, thanks to Harry Truman's lies 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z "The horror of laying everyone off and putting them in penury made me physically sick," he said. Covid: 'The horror of laying everyone off made me sick' 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Look beyond the fact that the federal poverty level — a family of four making a penny more than $26,500 annually is not considered poor — should really be called the federal penury level. Opinion | A $15 minimum wage would cost employers. Inequality costs all of us. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z The village of Guaca was once at the center of Venezuela’s fish processing industry but is now reduced to penury by the lack of gasoline and the closure of most of its small fish-packing plants. Treasure Washes Up on Venezuela’s Shore, Bringing Gold and Hope to a Village 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z GÜIRIA, Venezuela — The host of a popular radio show, “The People’s Combat,” had always diligently praised Venezuela’s governing Socialist Party, even as millions sank into penury under its rule. They Championed Venezuela’s Revolution. They Are Now Its Latest Victims. 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The penury of elite soccer only applied as long as the clubs wanted it to. The Fluid Morality of Soccer’s Transfer Market 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z At the same time, his club are pleading penury and sacking 55 members of staff and a dinosaur. The absurdity of Mesut Özil’s exile, yet another top talent cut adrift | Jonathan Liew 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Iannucci captures the meaning and the music of the classic tale — about a young man defining and redefining himself through comfort and cruelty, penury and privilege — by way of a gifted and bracingly pluralistic cast. Review | A dickens of a ‘David Copperfield,’ with Dev Patel heading up a great ensemble cast 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z But, in retirement forced by injury, Gibson lost what money she ever earned and hurtled towards penury and mental illness. Audacious to the end, on and off the court: the remarkable Angela Buxton | Kevin Mitchell 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z While “Lockdown” sat in its drawer, May was “rescued from penury” when an American publisher picked up “Extraordinary People,” which became the first in his Enzo series. How a pandemic thriller went from desk drawer to bestseller in a month 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z I imagine various people who are perhaps homeless or reduced to penury. How a taxi driver helped Blake draw his Guernica 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The long-term impact of the shutdown, he says, will be lots of starvation deaths, destitution and penury. India migrants have a question: When can I go home? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z That means not forcing employees to choose between penury and working while coughing. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Too many fighters have made the turbulent journey from glory to penury. Anthony Joshua the businessman determined to regain his belts 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Parliament promptly impeached Coke’s chief adversary, Francis Bacon, the Lord Chancellor, for bribery; Bacon was convicted, removed from office, and reduced to penury. The Invention—and Reinvention—of Impeachment 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z A Government Accountability Office report says the trust fund’s penury is exacerbated by this year’s 55 percent decrease in the coal tax rate, declining coal production and coal company bankruptcies. Perspective | Black lung disease cases grow, while federal program’s financing suffers 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Come the autumn, Britain may well get a huge shock, and penury will beckon. Want to know what a Boris Johnson government would look like? I have just the book | John Harris 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z It doesn’t eliminate risk, but it increases the odds against dying in penury. Perspective | One man wanted financial certainty and fun in retirement. Here is his formula. 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z States of penury and acts of charity are understood to emerge from entirely separate worlds. The missing ingredient in today’s debates? Generosity | Gary Younge 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z It was one of a tangle of oppressive laws that grew in the wake of slavery, which trapped African Americans in lives of penury and semi-bondage well into the 20th century. Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history’ 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The emergence of a strong El Nino triggered back-to-back droughts in 2014 and 2015, only for the fourth time in over a century, driving some Indian farmers to penury and suicide. India's monsoon should be robust provided no El Nino surprise: top... 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z His passport was revoked, and he was blacklisted and, unable to perform, forced into penury. Opinion | Paul Robeson was an unrepentant Stalinist. Rutgers should acknowledge that. 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z An era of mass unemployment and penury would undeniably be a dark one - a fate best avoided. Editorials from around New England 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z His parents, after a lifetime of work, were reduced to penury: his father in a nursing home and his mother forced to accept meals from charity. Yellow Vests Riot in Paris, but Their Anger Is Rooted Deep in France 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z Their income meant their reduced circumstances fell short of penury. Obituary: Baroness Trumpington 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z But if that person is leaving the penury and starvation of a dustbowl farm in the Sahel in order to survive,, are they a migrant or a refugee? Migration: how many people are on the move around the world? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Nauru spent years in desperate penury as the country ran out of money. Corruption, incompetence and a musical: Nauru's cursed history 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z But the UN report exposed the extent to which millions of Americans remain locked in penury exacerbated by the growing gulf between rich and poor. Democrats urge Congress to take action on 'appalling rates of poverty' 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z “If you try, you’re basically consigning your farmers to a life of penury – or worse.” Why Canadian milk infuriates Donald Trump 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z The state’s penury weakens a police force already compromised by corruption. Lessons from a murder in Rio de Janeiro 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union's collapse plunged the armed forces into penury as budgets were slashed. Life in Putin's Russia explained in 10 charts 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z But discontent among the rank-and-file, especially at their own economic penuries, is evident. Venezuela slams U.S. comments on military ouster of Maduro 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The prospect of a steady income in a less-skilled job might seem that much more attractive to a new graduate than years of even greater penury. Graduate students face alarming tax hike Yet the days of city penury are long gone. Editorials from around New York 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z But here, many villagers were concerned primarily with procuring the sustenance and basic comforts that their penury had denied them. The Future of Not Working 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Yet she died as she lived, a stone’s throw from penury. The Civil-Rights Luminary You’ve Never Heard Of 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z But discontent among the rank-and-file, especially at their own economic penuries, is evident. Venezuela slams U.S. comments on military ouster of Maduro 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z And the powerful one has a team scheming 24/7 about how to reduce them to further penury and serfdom. How I see Britain: photographs that define the country 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z They are unlikely to deal with the causes of Venezuela’s penury. As Venezuela crumbles, the regime digs in 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z When Mr. Butler found him, he was living in penury at 59, charging $130 to be interviewed on camera at his Havana home. The Trials of a Boxing Romantic 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Its economy is in a slow-motion collapse, unable to grow the food Cuba needs, condemning most of its 11 million people to a life of penury. Fidel Castro, Former Cuban Dictator, Laid to Rest 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z In the span of a single generation, hundreds of millions of people were lifted from penury to unimagined riches. Why the Economy Doesn’t Roar Anymore 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z As I speak to contingent faculty from New York to Texas, Seattle to San Francisco, it becomes increasingly clear that academic penury has become the order of the day. Life in academic poverty as an underpaid university teacher: “They just don’t want to pay” 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z This dates from when cities were small enough to permit an afternoon siesta at home and when, in post-civil war penury, many Spaniards did two separate jobs. Out of sync with the sun... 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z This meanness was not due to penury: China boasts more dollar billionaires today than does America. The emperor’s gift 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In reality, however, the NLW is a poor way of dealing with working penury. When a job is not enough 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z This may not exactly be penury, but Potanina says she is unable to pay the “artificial debt” outstanding in Russia. 'I'm hoping for justice': former wife of Russian oligarch fights for £5bn 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The trend toward prohibition in India has cheered many women’s rights groups, who say alcohol abuse contributes to domestic violence and plunges poor families deeper into penury. More Indian states are banning liquor, although that hasn't stopped the drinking 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z By supplementing public coverage with private policies, the government hopes that people may just manage to escape penury in their old age. Safe or sorry? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z But how much do you need to protect yourself against penury these days? How much of a savings buffer do people need? - BBC News 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z “The price of achieving ever-increasing prosperity for the great majority of Americans should not be penury for the unfortunate,” he wrote. Buffett, in Annual Letter, Rejects Candidates’ Message of U.S. Decline 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z He recounts the penury of Moscow in the chaotic aftermath: empty shops and queues to buy basic groceries with coupons. Putin’s Angels: the bikers battling for Russia in Ukraine 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Sanders’s father, Eli, grew up in a rural village in southern Poland and crossed the Atlantic in 1921, driven by penury rather than prejudice to seek opportunities in Brooklyn, where an older brother had settled. Why Bernie Sanders doesn’t participate in organized religion 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Pyongyang’s descent into penury is all the more tragic considering that from the 1950s on into the 1970s, intelligence from Washington and Seoul suggested that North Korea’s per capita output was higher than South Korea’s. How North Korea Became the World’s Worst Economy 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z You will fall into ruinous penury and break your blender trying to make this at home. Forget the avocado, here are the foods we’ll love to hate in 2016 | Fay Schopen 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Crops failed and most of the country’s livestock perished, forcing millions of farmers into penury. The water wars are coming: Civilization will never survive climate calamity 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In a region of fertile land with probably the most pleasant climate on earth, 10% of the population have fled to neighbouring countries in penury, hunger and fear. Don’t mess with Grace Mugabe – she could be the next president of Zimbabwe | David Smith 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The alternative, Tusk said, was bankruptcy of the Greek state and the insolvency of its banks - heaping penury on its 12 million people. Tusk: Greece crisis most critical moment in EU history - BBC News 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z That would seem so only if relative penury and unpopularity define intellectual probity. Albert Oehlen Paints Post-Painting 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Inter and Vesti regularly dwell on the fallout of the severe austerity program being imposed by the government, as Ukraine tries to burrow its way out of penury. TV showdown in Ukraine highlights press freedom anxieties 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Some want financial compensation for their families after years of forced penury. Torture Claims in Tunisia Await Truth Commission 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The few details Andreessen let slip to me suggested a climate of antiquity, superstition, frustration, and penury. Who Funds the Future? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Legislative leaders’ cries of penury notwithstanding, there’s a strong push in the Capitol to create a subsidy program for the purchase of electric and low-emission vehicles. Editorials from around Oregon 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z For Hawthorne, the book’s overnight success brought relief from both obscurity and penury. Why 'The Scarlet Letter' Was a Mixed Blessing for Its Author 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Most of the people still in penury live in countries with chronically weak economies or belong to marginalised groups, suggesting that it would be unrealistic to expect steady advances in their welfare. Poverty’s long farewell 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z There were so many of them, living in abject penury, dropping dead like flies when the rains failed and the crops vanished, dying like flies when the rains came and the epidemics raged. Memo To Larry Summers; Middle Class Stagnation Is The Outcome Of The Most Successful Economic Policy Ever 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z They have been distributed among those not long ago thought doomed—as their ancestors had been for countless generations—to short lives of penury and disease. The Age of Miracles 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Don’t condemn the next generation to penury through the tyranny of miserable expectations. How Optimism Strengthens Economies 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z No U.S. citizen -- outside of Congressmen, who are covered by excellent healthcare *for life* -- is safe from penury and/or bankruptcy, not when insurance companies are the middlemen. Why Most People Won’t Shop Again for Health Insurance 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Some castle owners managed to escape the country, while others were thrown into penury. Transylvania's castle owners bite back 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z These places contain pockets of penury: unemployment in inner Chicago, for instance, is twice the average for the remainder of the city. The geography of joblessness 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z With drugs and alcohol, I made the pilgrimage to any bridge or corner and made my donations in the penury my God demanded. An excerpt from Russell Brand's book 'Revolution' 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z "The statist, inefficient model is the main cause of the penuries Venezuelans are suffering today." Venezuela reshuffles cabinet, backs away from economic shake-up 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Anyone on traditional Medicare with a Plan F supplemental is safe from penury and bankruptcy caused by medical bills. Why Most People Won’t Shop Again for Health Insurance 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z His worries were well-founded: The wives of other men, still in jail, described a life of penury and struggle. Fishermen Cross an Imperceptible Line Into Enemy Waters 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z This explains why the young Africans camping at the edge of Calais live in such penury and do their utmost to avoid any interaction with the French state. Waiting for a break 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Having talked itself into a corner, Argentina now has to either swallow its pride and pay the holdouts, or keep its pride, accept another default and face isolation and penury. Argentine debt defiance may strengthen holdouts' legal position 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z But between the government’s penury, endemic corruption and the ever-growing size of the problem, progress was limited. The Slumdog Millionaire Architect 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s a wonder that conservatives want the wealthy financing art and philosophy — Marx, after all, would have died of penury without the beneficence of the wealthy Engels. The ultimate guide to shutting down conservative anti-Piketty hysteria 2014-05-04T16:00:00Z For others, the drones of the trade, snuffling up rumor for scraps, penury was a more mundane danger. Rumor, gossip, nonsense: How the news became a nightmare 2014-03-29T18:00:00Z Reminders of this stark truth might come only intermittently, but when they do arrive it is with irresistible force, displacing the overhanging importance of disease or penury in the dispensation of impersonal destruction. The Big Flood on the Big Screen 2014-03-27T14:54:07Z Today, there’s a way around that corner that doesn’t involve penury and divorce. 3 Reasons Why Inventors Don't Have to be Self-Destructive Nerds Anymore 2014-03-20T16:10:00Z Has anything done as much to enhance the dignity of American seniors, to rescue them from the penury and dependence that were once so common among the elderly, as Social Security and Medicare? Paul Krugman slams Republicans for protecting the 1 percent while pretending to care about “the dignity of work” 2014-02-14T15:30:00Z Many of the former sex workers "are forced to live a life of penury after falling out of favour with customers because of advanced age", it says. India: Life after the red light 2013-12-23T15:18:28Z Toward the end of his life, reduced to penury and exile in rural North Carolina, he was offered a guest professorship at a small liberal arts college. Q&A: Gauging Dictators and Burma's Reforms 2013-08-26T05:20:26Z This in turn encouraged new thinking about the economic rationale for reducing penury. Free exchange: Penury portrait 2013-07-25T14:59:44Z More shocking than the reporting of present penury is abject pessimism that sets in when YouGov-Cambridge's questioning turned to the future. Poll shows gloom and doom for decades as citizens fear for living standards 2013-04-14T18:36:06Z In , now poised to become one of the biggest experiments in global financial history, people know that penury is just around the corner. Cyprus waits for its 'giant leap back into the dark' 2013-03-27T22:09:07Z Reckless exposure to Greece plunged its banking sector – one of the key pillars of the economy – into crisis and brought the island to the brink of penury. Cyprus prepares for presidential elections as bailout threat looms 2013-02-15T19:38:41Z The premise is that austerity, or planned penury, contains the seeds of economic revival. Germany's ambitions aren't the problem: its love for austerity is 2013-01-13T00:05:43Z Advances in economic models meanwhile allowed policymakers to see how low levels of education, health and nutrition could keep people stuck in penury. Free exchange: Penury portrait 2013-07-25T14:59:44Z Under this scenario, the National Institutes of Health would, if past is prelude, reduce its average annual grant from about $450,000 to $400,000 — not pretty, but not exactly penury. Science should be ready to jump off ‘the cliff’ 2012-11-28T18:20:06.007Z The state may force a few into finding work by threatening them with penury. The week I shed my anti-Tory taboos 2012-10-13T23:04:28Z Only minutes into the first act, a lovely young woman named Masha, sick of hearing the lovesick schoolteacher Medvedenko whine about his penury, blurts out, “All you ever do is talk and talk about money.” Opinion: Money, Money, Money. Can we talk about something else? 2012-09-15T19:45:13Z Earlier this week, at the TUC Congress in Brighton, Mr Barber characterised Britain as a country of "stratospheric inequality where the rich float free and the poor sink further into penury". TUC Barber's £100,000 pay-off 2012-09-13T10:29:07Z Prison and penury would certainly focus minds of potential future banksters. Standard Chartered bank charges merit real penalties if proved 2012-08-08T14:55:40Z Instead, austerity has fomented a bleak national mood, with more than 2.5 million Britons unemployed and 7 million more “one small push from penury,” according to research published recently by The Guardian. The British are Drinking 2012-07-30T05:00:00Z Like so much of the Russian countryside, Buranovo is at once picturesque and a scene of rural penury. Buranovo Journal: Grandmothers of Buranovo Give Russian Village New Life 2012-07-10T00:26:27Z If they relocated to the Cayman Islands, we'd all be living in penury. All our banksters do, they do for you 2012-07-06T20:00:02Z In the middle there are the debt slaves, worried about the mortgage and often one pay packet away from penury. How Much Is Enough? by Robert and Edward Skidelsky – review 2012-06-29T21:55:04Z Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low. Public sector outsourcing: finally, an unfairness we can do something about 2012-06-20T19:30:01Z She and her colleagues evaluated a programme in the Indian state of West Bengal, where BRAC, a Bangladeshi microfinance institution, worked with people who lived in extreme penury. Free exchange: Hope springs a trap 2012-05-10T15:06:15Z When thus reduced to absolute penury, Amadas meets a White Knight, who tells him that he will aid him on condition of receiving half the gains. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z Buonarotto tells me that you live with great economy, or rather penury. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z My brother and sister-in-law desperately wanted to buy insurance and now wonder how to escape Medi-Cal’s forced penury. Op-Ed Contributor: Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole 2012-04-05T00:17:49Z His brother was reported to have left a large estate; but as Paul was, soon after, in a state of penury, it is probable that this was a mistake. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Rescued from penury, lifted above anxiety about bed and board, no longer exposed to the panic-fears which in Paris had beset even her courageous nature, Mary had for a while been content simply to rest. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z You have made sweet the ways of penury and care With dawn and sunset praise and white still hours of prayer, Old town of mystic saint! Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z However, when his son returned, after four years in Rome, carrying the money he had saved to establish his brothers in business, the proud father was not displeased with the "penury." Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z They who frequent taverns and gaming-houses, and keep bad company, should not wonder if they are reduced, in a very small time, to penury and want. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Suppose in penury and fear My neighbor see the wolf draw near; Am I my brother's keeper? The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z He must have been a rare man who coveted opprobrium and penury, by writing against civil and ecclesiastical institutions, hoary with age and venerated by the great mass of his countrymen. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z In early youth, penury may have power to freeze the genial current of the soul, and prevent it, during one short life, from becoming sensible of its true vocation and destiny. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The penury of Wladislaus II. was by this time so extreme, that he owed his very meals to the charity of his servants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z This, were I not holden by penury unjustly, would be possible. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Despite extreme penury, he then continued to study indefatigably ancient and modern languages, history and literature, finally turning his attention to mathematics and astronomy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z While the aggregate of intellectual wealth has increased, the individual workers are being reduced to penury. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z It was well that my lord had ridden forward, for so many families were beginning to steal out of Dublin that, as an ostler put it, there was a 'furious penury of beds.' My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z And why did he allow Mr. Armstrong, who had been robbed, to live in penury and discontent, until at last, overcome by misfortune, he sought rest in suicide? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Diana Royle was glad to be relieved from her genteel penury in Sussex Gardens, Kensington, but she had no liking for the country. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Through interviews and a review of Mr. Adelson’s testimony in legal disputes with former associates, a portrait emerges of a formidable and determined striver who lifted himself out of childhood penury in working-class Boston. The Man Behind Gingrich?s Money 2012-01-29T01:08:55Z In any case never more was Borrow to suffer penury, or to be a burden on his mother. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z A Bad Outlook.—At the present time there are in London about one hundred and fifty thousand persons in want and penury. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z It is addressed to Nobody—the person who has assisted him in his labours, pitied him in his sorrows, and relieved him in his penury. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z If, like Lincoln himself, men start in penury with never a favor and never a friend, then, like him, they must hire themselves to other men for the going wage. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z So great was the pestilence and the famine within the walls that human tongue could not describe it, for great woe there was, and such scarcity and penury in Assisi as had never been known. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z It is probable that much the greater p. 96part of the period of his eight years of penury was spent under her roof. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z Charles III.'s envoys had nothing to say to this argument excepting the state of penury and embarrassment in which their master found himself.' The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z For he has wings which neither sickness, pain, Nor penury can cripple or confine. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Is not penury to him even as a robe of honour? Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The best people are in utter penury; they look like the poorest of the poor and they talk like them also. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z And why did he die of grief and penury? Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z He felt poorer than ever for this reminder of his penury, and he almost slunk from the bank. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I was now in a situation which might have alarmed the fears even of one born to penury and inured to hardship. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z She failed to recover her paintings and died in penury in Novosibirsk in 1978. Nazi Loot Claim Fails to Hinder Planned Cologne Kandinsky Sale 2011-12-02T02:31:46Z It meant at least prosperity instead of penury, the realizing of ambitions, perhaps a road to actual affluence; also it might be far more than this. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z But the penury of the human part of this region is depressing, and I begin to have an appetite for Europe again. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Yet he feared both of the women she was: the cautious and forethoughtful who might in all wisdom refuse his penury, and the spoiled demander who might resent it. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Heroines of romance often show a marvellous contempt for the common necessaries of life; from whence I am obliged to infer that their biographers never knew the real evils of penury. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The prosperous part of our city has its streets kept cleanly throughout the year, but dread injustice is wreaked upon these that are skirted by abodes of penury and need. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z "Chill penury" could not repress "their noble rage," nor freeze "the genial current" of their souls. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z It is recorded that, although the father and the grandfather of Lyman were graduates of Yale College, chill penury prevented him from having similar advantages of education. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Just in the last year I have avoided penury and disease, solitude and celibacy and a thousand other ills, from bleu cheese to Lars von Trier movies. The Revolution Will Be Delicious 2011-11-16T10:00:54Z The morning found me in peace and in hope, although I was as little as ever able to devise the means of my escape from penury. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z She is not quite a thing of sloth and penury. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The old days of struggle and penury are gone; the heart-loneliness is no more; the world is beautiful, and everybody loving and kind. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Some, however, who contend against us, censure and attack miners by saying that they and their children must needs fall into penury after a short time, because they have heaped up riches by improper means. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Her health, too, was better; and, though always weighed down by Godwin’s anxieties, she and Shelley were, themselves, free for once from the pinch of actual penury and the perpetual fear of arrest. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z But Irish anger at Fianna Fail for leading the country from boom to penury is profound. Sean Gallagher No Longer a Cert for the Irish Presidency 2011-10-28T09:05:34Z But between these periods Mr. May suffered long spells of penury, when he would have been glad to have taken up his position with a handkerchief full of broken chalks and drawn on the pavement. The Phil May Album 2011-10-17T02:00:17.247Z The authors of the 'History of Dissenters' say, "let it not be supposed that this was the fruit of niggardly penury; the man was liberal, and had the spirit of a prince." Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z The family was thus reduced to penury and anxiety, but there was all the more reason that Paine should stand by them. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z The poet or philosopher, hoveled in penury, without books or scientific instruments, with spare meals and gloomy forebodings, never creates his brightest gem, nor solves his profoundest problem. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Nor is it inconceivable that Paine himself, finding his excise office no support, and his shop a failure, resolved that no offspring should suffer his penury or increase it. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z Therefore Paris need not necessarily be the worst penury. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Why was this ardent, aspiring mind bestowed upon her, one of earth's meanest ones, shackled by bonds of penury, toil, and ignorance of all that the world calls high and gifted? Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z And it would mean the difference, for mother and me, between penury and independence! The Girls of Central High on the Stage The Play That Took The Prize 2011-09-05T02:00:21.083Z And in the midst of this penury the idea of writing a Socialistic criticism of political economy burnt within him. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z That Thomas Paine should sue for an office worth, beyond its expenses, thirty-two pounds, argues not merely penury, but an amazing unconsciousness, in his twenty-ninth year, of his powers. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z To both it came, More fleeting than the beauty of a flame: Now each within the other's hungering eye Beholds the corse of Joy embalmèd lie, And smiles to know his penury the same. Songs of Womanhood 2011-08-21T02:00:31.203Z Good men neglected, perishing in penury and slavery, and profligate wretches wealthy, honoured and powerful. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z But, be it riches or be it penury, you get no more.” A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z Industry will not save him from chill penury's grip, nor virtue from the poor-house grave—let us then preserve and perfect the humble inheritance of those who have no other.'* The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z If we can find no help now, penury will deprive us of some of our best performers ere the next time. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Four months’ insolence and penury they had to endure at Arezzo, and then Pietro went back to beg help from his Roman friends, who laughed and said things had turned out just as they expected. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Here he experienced all the rigour of penury and imprisonment for seven years. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z The certainty of penury and the probability of open shame pressed her close; and she could not shake off the double fetter. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Young master, she does not, in penury too! The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z Does poverty and penury find clothing or food out of her riches? The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z And Greece may herald a new trend of European citizens forcefully challenging an economic orthodoxy that presses them into penury. Greek Protests Signal Challenge to Western Economic Orthodoxy 2011-06-29T09:18:57Z All money, properly so called, is an acknowledgment of debt; but as such, it may either be considered to represent the labour and property of the creditor, or the idleness and penury of the debtor. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z It is the only place I know in Russia in which the eye is never saddened by the sight of miserable penury. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z He had suffered so much from penury at Magdeburg, and at Eisenach had even seriously thought of giving up study altogether and returning to his father's calling. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The languages of highly cultivated nations are more subject to this innovation and variableness than the language of a people whose native penury receives but rare accessions. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z His dress betokened his penury, and was in unison with the meanness of his habitation and furniture. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Some communities have for many years bravely endured the burden of debt, penury, and discomfort, to be loyal to the memory of their founder, as in the case at Icaria of the followers of Cabet. Some Objections To Socialism From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:37.647Z To this class we must join the Mazils, who are descendants of the ancient boyars, but whom war and the numerous revolutions that have desolated the land have reduced to penury. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Yes, she must be rescued from the pressure of those daily fretting cares of penury and hope deferred, which have made our mother old so early. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z But to be severe and never to be just is the penury of the most sordid criticism; and among these Spirits black, white, and grey, are some of the most illustrious in English literature. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The poet, penniless and ill, escaped to England to die in penury the following year. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Yes, one thing could; and that is sure penury and starvation. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z Because the accident of birth has cast my lot within these wretched walls, and made me fellow-prisoner with penury, therefore shall I not throw off my chains when I will? Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z He is now raised quite above the pressing cares of penury, and will probably never taste them more. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The penury and barbarism of Polish circumstances are graphically described in his and his wife’s letters of this period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Dublin literally danced, drank, and gambled itself into penury, whilst the Castle set, contemptuous and indifferent to public opinion, robbed and oppressed the country, and prepared the way for the ghastly year of 1798. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z Unless some plan can be devised, I warn you all that our course is run, and penury and neglect must be our lot.” Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome 2011-04-21T02:00:52.107Z Although graduate students in the sciences essentially sign themselves up for years of penury in university, nearly all US PhD programmes, and many others around the world, provide stipends for their researchers. What is a PhD really worth? 2011-04-20T17:21:05.930Z Poverty is inimical to felicity; but marriage penury, worst of woes, is inevitably calamitous. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z If a doubt crossed the young man's mind, he cast it from him when he thought of the penury of Inez, and the prison of Alcala. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z The gentry were drinking themselves into penury; the city was crowded with young bloods, who gambled, and drank, and called out each other to give satisfaction on the famous duelling-ground of Phoenix Park. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z It is true that for centuries Palestine was almost emptied of Jewish inhabitants, and such as were left were reduced to a life of penury and desolation. The Allied Countries and the Jews 2011-03-29T02:00:08.617Z Then she told us a story of a banker's family at Paris who had been totally ruined, and who were reduced to the utmost penury, and living in the greatest destitution at Lausanne. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z This money was soon lost, through unfortunate experiments and an unfortunate marriage, and the most of his days were spent in penury. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z In the presence of a savant, I need not be ashamed of my penury, since I have spent the little I had wholly in scientific researches. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment, Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of Death.” The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Even were the fields of education, of civil employment and of commerce open to them as to "Roumanian citizens," their penury would prevent their rising by individual effort. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z At least, we think so, at times;—though, under it all, admire as we may the successful struggles of the want-stricken bard,—we do not envy him his penury. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z And such an income as that, to people bred as you and I have been, means simply penury. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Conservatives believe a public debt of $14 trillion and growing is crippling the economy and condemning future generations to penury. Environmentalists Warn of Natural Debt as Budget Cuts Loom 2011-02-22T08:30:00Z Elders Hyde, Richards, and myself, being without purse or scrip, wandered in the streets of Liverpool, where wealth and luxury abound, side by side with penury and want. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z After this, he suffered for awhile all the horrors of penury, and the renowned Loustannau—’The Lion of the State and the Tiger in War’—was reduced to earn his bread as a day-labourer. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z But these were probably only temporary dwellings, for the thrift and diligence of the southern Greek seems hardly compatible with real penury. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z The allied fleet, with favoring winds, spread its sails, and soon disappeared beneath the horizon of the silent sea, bearing away nearly twenty thousand wretched exiles to homelessness, penury, and a life-long woe. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z How can I tell you the horrible life of those eighteen months!—the sufferings, the penury! A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z With this drink in their bodies the public will not long continue to support either lyrical lemonade on the stage nor the dregs of dramatic penury. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z And she was surprised to realise afresh how much illogical happiness flourished amid penury, ugliness, and pain. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z How many unmarried women live in heart-wearing dependence;—if poor, in solitary penury, loveless, joyless, unendeared;—if rich, in aimless, pitiful trifling! Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Poor untaught fellow! how nobly he appeared to rise in that night's shadows; children of penury, perhaps, he and his mother, yet how rich in affection! The Torn Bible Or Hubert's Best Friend 2011-02-09T03:00:51.890Z How vividly she recalled the days of penury and misery when footsore and in despair she had trodden the stony pavements there! A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z “With this drink in its body,” writes one admirer, “the public will never more endure lyrical lemonade, nor the dregs of dramatic penury.” The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z She had expressed her determination to share penury with him rather than wed the rico, who was not of her choice—to die, or do anything rather than go into a convent! The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Didn't I marry you to save you from disgrace and penury? Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z There would be no chance now of reducing the parent to that penury that would give him power over the child. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z His grandfathers blundered so sadly, that he Inherited only their penury, With a few little play-things he’s left for his heir, Who will frolic awhile, and then die of care. The Boys' And Girls' Library 2011-02-06T03:01:02.953Z They arrived at the inn, seated themselves at their ease in a perfect solitude, since the penury of the times had driven away the daily frequenters of the place. The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z Henry Mossop, one of the stateliest of stately actors, perishing, by slow degrees, of penury and grief,—which he bore in proud silence,—found a refuge, at last, in the barren gloom of Chelsea churchyard. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z You may have noticed my color is good for a poor buried-alive creature who knew only luxury in the past and knows only penury in the present. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z Pay each man according to his true market value and who shall escape penury? Claims Five: New Year resolutions for racing 2011-01-07T10:00:03Z Hundreds of families were burned out, and reduced from opulence, or at least competency, to penury. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z In the penury of the dockyards Holmes could not be provided with the force he was promised, and the enterprise was but partially successful. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Scores of white-robed children, rescued from shame and penury by this noble benevolence, were ranged around that organ when I saw it, and, with artless, frail little voices, singing a hymn of praise and worship. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Lenihan, a trained barrister, is always on top of his brief but using net figures to plead relative penury is unlikely to win the argument. Ireland budget: Lenihan claims he and Cowen are sharing the pain 2010-12-08T13:40:00Z Several directors and former directors are also owed a total of £4m, loaned to the club in its years of penury. Sir Dave Richards and the ailing fortunes of Sheffield Wednesday 2010-11-24T00:06:00Z The changes pushed millions of Russians into a life of penury, but they also laid the foundation for Russia’s economic boom during the past decade. Russia?s Market Reform Architect Dies at 53 2009-12-17T06:52:00Z I sit there, half-listening, worrying that I am about to offend someone either with penury or over-the-top largess. You're the Boss: Dealing With Humans 2010-10-14T11:00:00Z Poulter's self-proclaimed penury, it can be assumed, was the second exaggeration of the day. Colin Montgomerie defends Ryder Cup selection of Padraig Harrington 2010-09-28T19:48:00Z But now the ants are on the march again, all of them warning that the grasshoppers will die in penury, as Lovelace did. The ants march on, but we'd be happier as grasshoppers 2010-08-01T20:00:00Z Of course, there are those who want to be rock stars on stage and as investors, a combination that can end in penury — and dreams of regaining their financial solvency with a comeback. Wealth Matters: How the Rich and Famous Can Stay Rich (if Not Famous) 2010-07-09T20:17:00Z Jeffries, who limped away from Reno and home to his alfalfa farm, more pitied than derided, never to fight again, went bankrupt in the 20s and died in penury in 1953, largely forgotten. Jack Johnson was a pioneer who gave hope to black boxers everywhere 2010-07-03T23:06:00Z Townsend’s scheme was designed to solve unemployment and the penury of old age by offering monthly government pensions of $200, financed by taxes on business, to everyone over the age of 60. The strange history of Tea Party populism 2010-05-03T21:20:00Z Whatever the election outcome, if nothing changes, unemployment will remain a passport to penury. The jobless are no shirking scroungers ? you try living on ?65.45 a week 2010-04-30T06:05:00Z A league in which shame, humiliation and penury are as prominent as glory, popularity and prosperity is nothing of which to be so proud. Richard Williams: Liverpool shame the Premier League 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z What made him spurn a highly lucrative job for penury in the Ivory Coast? Coast to City 2010-03-10T23:56:00Z He enjoyed some success, particularly in the 1980s, when he traveled to play for Haitians abroad in New York, Montreal and Miami, before some bad decisions with his money pushed him into penury. A Haitian Singer and his Guitar Fight the Urge to Weep 2010-03-05T00:57:00Z Yet in California, where independent lobbies were spending freely in campaigns even before a recent Supreme Court ruling to this effect, penury does not necessarily spell political death. The other Brown 2010-03-03T08:07:00Z From that simple summary you perceive at once the explosion of my borrowing and thus the extent of my penury. 2010-02-12T16:24:00Z Dean Swift, full of wit and penury, writing from his London lodging to Stella in her comfortable Irish home, breaks into frequent outbursts at the scantiness of his comforts. A Cursory History of Swearing His dress was much the worse for the service it had seen; and there was an appearance of penury about him that made me anticipate a good bargain. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 The penury and harshness of her aunt rendered the young lady's life miserable. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 The old man had been ordered wine daily; but their penury was now such that they could not purchase it, and the plainest food had become scanty on their table. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 Only smile upon me, and I will welcome penury. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Our family will be raised from penury to affluence, and we shall have done our duty, I am sure.” A Double Knot There never will be a salary adequate to the importance of the office or to support you and your family from penury. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The helplessness of orphanhood and age, the penury and monotonous dulness of the lives of great sunken classes, the education of the young, were drawing forth the pity of the charitable. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The four sat silent, looking far beyond the fear of penury and the dreams of avarice into a land where mountains were banked with jewels and all the rivers ran gold. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper I repeated again; 'it would rescue my Catherine and my child from penury.' Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Most of his life was spent in penury, on the meagre earnings of a hack journalist, but his memory is cherished as that of one of the foremost men of letters of his time. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 Cavalrymen were sweeping the village of all it contained, the meager little that was left to us in our penury. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches His life, like that of most of his cotemporaries, was full of wonderful escapes, sudden changes, and unexpected succour, of deadly perils, penury, and frequent changes of place. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. It was as though the fatted calf had been killed for him, after his prodigal riot of penury. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel Let me perish in my penury; but crush me not beneath the weight of my own meanness! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Why was Alonzo speechless through the whole of this discourse?—What reply could he have made? what were the prospects before him but penury, want, misery and woe! Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact His penury had long brought on him the contempt of his fellow lodgers, but this unexpected gift of five rupees became to them insufferable. Stories from Tagore Some with a genial, generous, royal nature, wrestling with the serpents of care and penury their long life through. Misread Passage of Scriptures Any knowledge of the false pride, the empty magnificence that will, metaphorically speaking, fling its last coin to a beggar, while passing on to penury, had never come within her experience. The Gambler A Novel The European peasant, who toils for his scanty sustenance in penury, wretchedness, and servitude, will eagerly fly to this asylum for free and industrious labor. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Hopes of escaping future penury, The pride of acting the rich man to beggars, Would this have metamorphosed all at once The richest beggar to a poor rich man? The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise This certainty of future prodigality was so clear to his mind's eye that present penury escaped his attention. Stories from Tagore His glass is the magic transmuter of care to cheerfulness, of penury to plenty, of a low, ignorant, worried life, to an existence for the moment buoyant, contented, and hopeful. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them But while the Lord discontinued the test of need and penury, which had proved to be too severe a discipline, He substituted the test of fulness. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus A crown of sovereignty to lift the chosen one above princes and peoples, pain and penury, and privation. Love's Usuries He was a man of touchy and irascible character, and rose from penury to the height of opulence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" It has been no small pleasure for me to return to Paris, where I once lived in penury, and to receive the highest fee ever paid to a French singer in the French capital. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Some of His people have died spiritually poor; some are living to-day in spiritual penury, a hand-to-mouth existence, with such "untrackable riches" lying "at call," at deposit in their name. The Spirit-Filled Life Ye thunders and lightnings! when but three guilders stood between three philosophers and absolute penury! The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel And then princes and peoples would become but a mob, antagonistic or inane, and the pinch of pain, privation, and penury would eternally grip at the strings of her love-famished heart. Love's Usuries He was placed above penury, though not in easy circumstances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Not so the driver: equally low in condition, and fully as ragged in coat, the droll spirit that made his birthright was, with him, a lamp that neither poverty nor penury could quench. Jack Hinton The Guardsman But few indeed were the high-born ladies a hundred and twenty years ago who ever penetrated the dark places where their suffering brothers and sisters lived and died in penury and want. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days Close to the spot where our pretty porch once stood, a matron, in the garb of extreme penury, was bending over the trampled remains of a plot of flowers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Squalor appeared to grope under railway arches, and penury to moan through flapping fragments of clothing that swung at intervals along the narrow paths, behind rows of second-hand furniture and groups of dishevelled infants. Love's Usuries The present was distinctly satisfactory: it meant absolute wealth compared with the penury of the old days. The Intriguers Next year his father died, and he resigned his commission in order to devote himself to literature—thus commencing a long struggle with ill-health and penury. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" "What prodigal portion have I spent that I should stand to such penury?" The Bible Story Believe me, Jacob, old dear, mine is one of those peculiar intelligences which thrive best in a state of penury. Jacob's Ladder Ah, perhaps so—in the days when the pinch of penury forced one to be tough and calculating. Love's Usuries Simplicity might often better deserve the name of penury. The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. Surrounded by this numerous and helpless family, thus suddenly reduced from affluence to miserable penury, the countess became the object of general commiseration. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 What could break the fall from a position of affluence and power to a condition of penury and insignificance? The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly In spite of penury, there is to be a masque at Court this Christmas. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories He soon rose from penury to ease, and married a painter’s beautiful daughter, Maria Vagini; she died after seven years of wedded life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Extravagance, debauchery, and dissolute habits were sure to work out in time the attendant ills of wretchedness, destitution, and penury. Greek Women The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and ceaselessly implore; I answer not, and I return—no more. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 To him, all the steps in the existence by which his own being had been preserved meant thrift and penury. Rose MacLeod Captain Meredith recalled his own austere apprenticeship in sail, his still more austere gruelling as junior officer in tramps, the mean accommodation, the chill penury, the struggle to keep employed, and he smiled grimly. Command Let me show them to the world, as I can show them, with penury within, and pretension without These disclosures cannot be suppressed as irrelevant,—they are the alleged motives of the crime. The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life She could, it is true, recall the penury and the privation, but not the feelings that grew out of them. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Cases were continually arising of peculiar perplexity and hardship, where widows and orphans, reduced from opulence to penury, sought lost property, which, during the tumult of the times, had become involved in inextricable embarrassments. Josephine Makers of History This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and woe. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The daughter of penury fainted, the crushed husband sniffed aloud, and the landlady knocked at the door for the week's board. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 Out of their penury and want they brought gifts of food, tobacco, cloth for patches and needles and thread. My Lady of the Chimney Corner Chill penury, public neglect, and ill health have been the lot of many an author in countries other than Russia. Devil Stories An Anthology Her purse was never closed against the wants of penury. Josephine Makers of History I now desired to submit to penury and hunger, so that I might but live in the fear of God in this world, and enjoy his favor in the next. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales He leaves his only daughter to drag out her days in penury—a widow with orphans. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) Our ideal book must, I think, be printed on hand-made paper as good as it can be made; penury here will make a poor book of it. The Art and Craft of Printing Through the eyes of the little girl he saw abruptly the penury of heart, the desert-like aridity of this bourgeois class of which he formed a part. Pierre and Luce When in penury, crossing the Atlantic, by kind sympathy manifested for the sick and the sorrowful, she won the hearts of the seamen. Josephine Makers of History In the midst of penury no sooner was money in his pockets than silver and copper sped in response to any petition made upon his unfailing if not unerring charity. Oliver Goldsmith If there were no penury and no pain, what would become of fortitude? what of patience? what of resignation? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Even were the fields of education open to them, of civil employment and of commerce, as to "Roumanian citizens," their penury would prevent rising by individual effort. Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question Never afterward could they remember what they talked about: only it seemed a fortunate moment stolen from the penury of years. Old Crow Is he not that, in his patience with penury with him, and old age, and the union before him? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 From the moment that Oliver Goldsmith entered London, penury and meanness had dogged his steps. Oliver Goldsmith Is it not better to put an end to this dog’s life than to die by inches in penury and distress?” A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day “Great Britain,” says Lloyd George, “must be freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, and the tyranny of man over man.” The So-called Human Race His brilliant opulent English prosperity, centred in a home and diffused through a progeny, is in strong contrast with the almost scholastic penury and obscurity of much of Balzac's career. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 This only marks the penury of his feelings in this species of adventure. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 They lived in penury, that kings, and queens, and courtiers might revel in all imaginable magnificence and luxury. Maria Antoinette Makers of History Their profession surrounds them with temptations sufficiently numerous and insidious; and when to these is added the crowning one of promised relief from hopeless penury, shall Pity refuse a tear to the unhappy victims? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Beware of the intoxicating bowl, for it brings penury and ruin. Our Young Folks—Vol. I, No. II, February 1865 An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls The author’s intellect gradually discovers its confusion amidst the loud cries of penury and despair. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors "Chill penury represses pride;"— A maxim by the wise denied; For 'tis alone tame plodding souls, Whose spirits bend when it controls,— Whose lives run on in one dull same, Plain honesty their highest aim. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. As a matter of fact, five thousand dollars a year was not penury, at least to Archie, who had rarely seen a clear twelve hundred from January to January. Clark's Field There is hardly a novelist, dead or living, who so skilfully harmonises the poetry of moral life with its penury. Sir Tom And the boy’s mother after two other marriages and a sad period on the variety stage died alone in penury! In the Heart of a Fool He resided here, little known out of a very private circle, and perished in his fortieth year, not of penury, but of a broken heart. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Isom was a man of bone and dry skin, whose greed and penury had starved his own soul. The Bondboy The young men were inconstant, the middle-aged liable to matrimony, the old to death, and all to penury or change of occupation and residence. Clark's Field Deprived of his fellowship,431 and distracted by penury, he extended his hatred from the ministers to the religion which they ministered. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion When I speak of poverty, I do not so much mean the natural, habitual poverty of the working-man, as the embarrassed penury of the man in debt. Shirley The whole spirit of this man was penury. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors But if your wife unmans your resolution, imploring dishonor rather than penury, may God pity and help you! Twelve Causes of Dishonesty Bear in mind thy marriage, and the time of penury thou didst go through. Adventures in the Philippine Islands Ofttimes we read and hear of the open-handed generous man who "helped everybody," and who "never refused to aid a needy brother," and who ended his life in penury because of his generosity. The Heart of the New Thought Of course I would not permit one dollar of this holy gift to Galveston to go to other than the hands, hard, bony, and black—such as had raised it in their penury. A Story of the Red Cross Glimpses of Field Work Besides this perpetual struggle with penury, there are also 5 moral causes which influence the literary character. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Must these sweet hours be broken upon with a tale of impending penury? A Prairie Infanta Mother of Mercy! what were a whole life Of pain and penury and conscience-smart To that half-hour of Regnald's with his Dead? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Penal laws by the terror of punishment hold a numerous class in abject penury. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle He wondered how he had endured the vulgarity and penury of his surroundings for so long; how indeed he had borne with Denasia’s shortcomings at all. A Singer from the Sea Is it not the highest exhibit of the moral superiority of our women that so very few consent to exchange pinching penury for gilded vice? The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV In his declining years all his property was to slip through his fingers, and he was to totter in penury to his grave. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance He continued: 'Behold an individual who has been doomed to penury and destitution, but who has not met his fate without a struggle. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy And so, on a salary that would have meant penury to a man of self-seeking tastes, he managed to save always the major part of his earning. In a Little Town Some were stupid and ungracious, hardened and dulled with long penury as some in this world are hardened and dulled with long riches. Dr. Sevier Without the blessing of reading the burden of life would be intolerable and the riches of life reduced to the merest penury. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Then Belisarius, attempting to relieve Rome with inadequate forces, which was all that the penury of Justinian allowed him, was the means of prolonging the famine, while he did not save the city from capture. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I Was it out of disgust or surfeit or penury? The Book of Khalid The eldest daughter, born in the grim days of early penury, had been grimly entitled Julia. In a Little Town Had he learned to carp at the rich, and to make honesty the excuse for all penury? Dr. Sevier That simple person, however, who lived in obscurity, almost in penury—to society an object of its wisely directed ridicule—was a man of honour. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 There are some cases in which those receipts amount to nearly £2000 per annum; whilst in some others the sum total is hardly sufficient to sustain an existence of misery and penury. Roman Catholicism in Spain But the brigands can not harm a dervish; my penury is my amulet––my salvation. The Book of Khalid The Generall Assembly Considering that the contribution of fourty shillings for entertaining of Highland boyes at Schools, in respect of the penury and great indigence of those parts hath not taken the intended effect. The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ——, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Well, this annuity, it is my all—it stands between me and absolute penury—it is the plank on which I sail over the waters of life. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 He found his dear ones had all died in penury. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character ‘Thou wilt overlook our penury,’ she falters out; ‘here be all we have.’ The Book of Khalid They toil in penury and grief, Unknown, if not maligned; Forlorn, forlorn, bearing the scorn Of the meanest of mankind! Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul "Chill penury," forced upon him by the state of his financial affairs, had much to do with his cynical and acrimonious spirit. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Even the deplorable appearances which penury exhibits are counterfeited, and we hesitate to give alms lest we should encourage an impostor. Reflections on the Operation of the Present System of Education, 1853 I am so accustomed to penury and debt that it sounds like a fairy story. The Scarlet Feather Parental duty and affection demand that I should know your means and prospects before I sanction 56 a proceeding which may reduce my child to penury and to want.” Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father “Free silver” means to one set of men the withdrawal of money from investment, consequent stagnation in business, followed by the closing of factories and penury among laborers. English: Composition and Literature No! penury, inertness, and grimace, In some strange sort, were the land's portion. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Looking from the misery of the present down the gloom of the future, she could see only widowhood and penury. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I To take everything as equally good, to know no difference between bitter and sweet, penury and plenty, slander and praise,—this is a great attainment, a Nirvana to which few can hope to arrive. Birds in the Bush What were the prospects before him but penury, want, misery, and woe! Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father This explains the extreme penury of history outside the dry descriptions of the nomenclator. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles But now as the years pass and the penury of human love has made the home woods and fields more dear, I feel that this unrest is drawing to its end. Apologia Diffidentis George Jeffreys, in his student-days, smarted under a still more galling penury, for he was allowed only £50 a year, £10 being for his clothes, and £40 for the rest of his expenditure. A Book About Lawyers Here, in Tjilatjap, X. was again threatened with penury, for, though he had telegraphed for money, the little registered packet had so far not appeared. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Looking back upon his penury, he could not wish that he had been spared those lean, ill-favoured days. Anthony Lyveden Before they came they knew that they were to wrest their living from an uncongenial soil, to struggle with penury and to conquer only by constant toil and self-denying thrift. The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907 Address Delivered by Daniel Davenport, of Bridgeport, Conn. The task exhausted his resources, and when recalled to his province by local troubles in 1518, the temporary alleviation his generosity had brought was succeeded by hopeless penury. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era While a few nabobs have enjoyed immense treasures, the people, as a whole, have grovelled in the lowest depth of penury and want. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ ‘They smile at penury, disease, and storm; ‘And oceans from their mighty mounds recoil. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems The court blazed again with splendor to greet the new favorite; and, let it not be forgotten, to meet this royal splendor, millions of peasants were consigned to hovels, and life-long penury and want. Louis XIV. Makers of History Series If he rejects this authority, he must read a little farther on perjury for penury. Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. When a member of the latter occupied the throne, the Court enjoyed opulence, owing to its possession of the extensive Chokodo estates; but when the sovereign was of the Daigaku-ji line comparative penury was experienced. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era But the constant penury of the people, and the fact of their always living upon the verge of hunger and want, make it almost impossible to save many from the terrible result of such visitations. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ At last, though long by penury controuled, And solitude, his soul her graces ’gan unfold. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems They were poor, and it pierced the young man to the heart to witness their penury. The Corsair King By virtue of My few remaining jewels which I sold For her, and by the good advice I gave, I rescued her from utter penury. Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts The murderer turned away with a sobbing oath, mounted his horse and rode for the coast to begin his lifetime of exile, penury, and execration. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 My fishery has been miserably conducted from the beginning as might be expected from my entire ignorance and the penury of my partner who was poorer than myself.... The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia ‘Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive ‘With disappointment, penury, and pain? The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems Too often penury and dire disease, Neglect, a broken heart, an early grave!— Enthusiasm and Other Poems The next ten years were hard years for him; they were years of unsettledness, sometimes of penury and despair, sometimes of extravagance and folly. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities The assistance which Cromwell had at hand, lay in the little band of courtiers who hung in penury, and vexation of heart, round Charles II. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 We perhaps darken the shades of the picture, for time and proof have added to the greatness of Hamilton, and Burr waited not for death to exhibit the penury of his fame. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Educated by a rigid father, who lived in the greatest penury, my childhood and youth were merely suffering and sorrow. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck He counted on divisions in the League, on the selfish interests of the towns, on the penury of the princes, and reckoned aright. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 A state of luxury and splendour is little appreciated by those who are born to it, though much if it follows a period of struggle and penury. The Map of Life Conduct and Character For the badge of penury is desire, the badge of wealth contempt. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura They had lived as many had lived who have no different excuse to plead for their penury. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution It is not enough to-day to paint the gay impropriety of models and the devil-may-care penury of lighthearted artists. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914 It was a day of small things, relatively to present gigantic commercial enterprises; but an accumulation of cash in one quarter, coinciding with penury in another, proves defect in circulation consequent upon embarrassed communications. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 Some minds are always looking on the fortunes that are above them and comparing their own penury with the opulence of others. The Map of Life Conduct and Character Families are plunged into penury by their subtly circulated frauds; forgery and embezzlement in hundreds of individual cases result; banks are betrayed and shattered; disgrace and suicide are sown broadcast like seeds fecund in poison. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 ‘The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury,’—and if you’ll go in and look for that i’ th’ Good Book, it’ll happen do you a bit o’ good—more than talking. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot A homeless wanderer, reproach and penury His daily lot, He lived to minister to the needs and lighten the woes of men, to plead with them to accept the gift of life. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The towns of the old world have alternations of penury and affluence. American Sketches 1908 But knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne’er unroll; Chill penury repress’d their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Graded Memory Selections Never have I looked upon such lonely penury, and yet there, even there, these forlorn women kept their souls alive. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Ah! graceless wretch, hast spent thine all, And brought thyself to penury? The Book of Brave Old Ballads The condition of penury in which the holy Bishop had placed himself owing to his magnificence and liberality was greatly aggravated by the condition of the times. The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 Fuchsias in the window gave a pleasing frame to the general picture of penury. The Goose Man The cold and penurious elegance that had characterised the Casino disappeared like enchantment—that is, the elegance remained, but the cold and penury fled before the smile of woman. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Similarly, women are pleased to explain their penury of mental achievement by repressive education and custom, and therein they are not altogether in heresy. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 None will travel in penury; on the other hand, all who desire to travel in luxurious ease will be able to follow their bent. The Jewish State Relief, however, was slow in coming, and many, reduced from wealth to penury, died in the utmost distress. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration At length the bank broke, the bubble burst, and the unhappy man was reduced to the extreme of penury, while numbers of unfortunate people who had invested their money in the bank were ruined. A Yacht Voyage Round England He was striving to construct out of the wreck of his grandeur a refuge for his wife and his boy from the anguish and dependence of penury. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Not even to save those I love from penury will I accept your proposal.' Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century It means practical penury at Blandford, comparative affluence if we go. Mufti Everything which he attains or achieves still leaves him in "pinching penury," unsatiated with "the thin and spare diet which he finds in his finite home." Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries He finds himself deprived of every vestige of privacy, and his thoughts revolve often round chances gone, work lost, hopes vanished, a wife living in penury, and a future altogether dark. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship It will be a change for us both to come into five thousand a year after such penury. The Opal Serpent She had known only the intangible shadow of pomp and luxury, while the substance was actual penury. Fairy Fingers A Novel As Josephine emerged from the gloom of her prison into the streets of Paris, she found herself a widow, homeless, almost friendless, and in the extreme of penury. Hortense Makers of History Series He had been trained to penury; he had associated with the poor; he was a man of the people; he was their natural friend. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The Governor would not hear of a retrenchment, which could only have the effect of placing respectable men in the situation of struggling against actual penury, with the gloomy prospect of starving in old age. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 They were often forced to live low and lie hard, and to seek compensation for their penury in the delight which their favourite pursuits afforded them. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 All of this he had attained working in the same environment in which other men of about his own age, but of greater education and larger opportunities, had found penury, disgrace, and death. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 It is extraordinary what some of the busiest men achieve in this respect; but it is only managed by an economy and even penury of time for which a kind of genius is requisite. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 The rich cast in of their abundance, much; she, of her penury, cast in a little; but it was all that she had, even all her living. Christian Devotedness Thus whole families were orphaned and consigned to penury. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Never were penury of knowledge and vulgarity of sentiment so happily disguised. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II He looked exceedingly dejected and poverty-stricken—as though what little of energy he ever might have possessed, had been utterly extinguished by the withering touch of penury. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman You will know the meaning of that great text for ministers, "The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury,"—that is, it shallows the spirit within. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 And as to the honours which were offensive to the envious, they had been well earned: witness his whole life since he came in penury to Florence. Romola The fact of his penury had been like a wet blanket upon him all day. The Man Who Lost Himself David Malloch was, by the penury of his parents, compelled to be janitor of the high school at Edinburgh; a mean office, of which he did not afterwards delight to hear. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II We can expend much, or live on little; and this, too, without descending to absolute penury. The Young Man's Guide Most of the citizens who were considered wealthy at the beginning of the war were reduced to penury at its close, and were to be seen carrying their rations through the streets of Charleston. The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative Nor did the inhabitants exhibit much less simplicity and moderation; or, to speak more properly, slovenliness and penury in their dress than in their furniture.... South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 And meet whom you will, man, woman or child, no rags or penury or squalor will offend you; but the look is of respectable comfort and real and hopeful life. The Gold of Chickaree In the early part of Blackmore’s time, a citizen was a term of reproach; and his place of abode was another topick to which his adversaries had recourse, in the penury of scandal. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II My penury has again been relieved by Mr. S——'s kind loan of £1. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes |
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