How To Use Destitute In A Sentence

They distribute food, clothing, provisions and other essential items for orphanages and destitute homes and uniform, books and notebooks for poor children.
It is the sinfullest thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. The Essays
The Southern ruling class seceded from the US in early 1861 to defend a social system built on the backs of destitute slaves.
Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded.
Being obscured is the intent to protect the destitute by means testing the benefits. No Entitlements Crisis?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

The house was large and old, the furniture not much less ancient, the situation dreary, the roads everywhere bad, the soil a stiff clay, wet and dirty, except in the midst of summer, the country round it disagreeable, and in short, destitute of every thing that could afford any satisfaction to Mrs A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue
Now in our state this so – called art, whether really an art or only an experience and practice destitute of any art, ought if possible never to come into existence, or if existing among us should litten to the request of the legislator and go away into another land, and not speak contrary to justice. Laws
Am afraid we will be left bankrupt and destitute but at least Josie will have perfect N American teeth. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
He introduced her to Jamil Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi businessman working on behalf of orphans and destitute young girls in the country's interior villages.
Prague and Galicia and Hungary, from Lombardy and Venetia, and from their own easy-going capital, had destituted Metternich. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
Your mother will have me do so, that you may be destitute of all defence, if you persist in your pervicacy. Clarissa Harlowe
Saints players gave time and money to help the poor and destitute. Times, Sunday Times
He was sorter destituted and not a bit up-to-date. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2
The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
Our government is faced with many challenges and promises to deliver and serve the poor and destitute.
‘Not a tenth of the destitute population could be supplied’, writes Ms. Smith.
His eyes were hollow, bleared, and gummy; his face was shrivelled into a thousand wrinkles, his gums were destitute of teeth, his nose sharp and drooping, his chin peaked and prominent, so that, when he mumped or spoke, they approached one another like a pair of nutcrackers: he supported himself on an ivory-headed cane and his whole figure was The Adventures of Roderick Random
We were not down and out or destitute, which is the picture some people have tried to paint.
But yet there is somewhat more in these three famed mountaines of Island, which causeth the sayd writers not a little to woonder, namely whereas they say that their foundations are alwayes burning, and yet for all that, their toppes be neuer destitute of snowe. A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
It quickly spread to neighbouring shacks, leaving their already poor occupants destitute.
I was immediately struck with the resemblance of those organs, called ramenta, to what are fairly assumed to be the male bodies, in certain other families of the same grand division; and I at once came to the conclusion, that the barren fronds, were barren, because almost destitute of these ramenta; and that as these ramenta were confined to the base of the stalk, that is, to the part below its first ramification, an obvious necessity existed for the peculiar nature of the vernation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Harpt has now set up a school for orphans and destitute children.
Nearly destitute of food, clothing, and ammunition, with enlistments expiring and men abandoning what looked like a lost cause, the Continental army was about to fade away.
There is no timber in this valley, and accordingly the scenery, though on a large scale, is neither impressive nor pleasing; the mountains are large swelling hummocks, grassed up to the summit, and though steeply declivitous, entirely destitute of precipice. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
Moreover, the muscle fibers of the heart are peculiar in that they are destitute of sarcolemma, the naked muscle fibers directly touching each other. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
On the other side, but equally healthful, may be put the fact that the style and structure of the originals and earlier versions, and especially that verse division which has been now so unwisely abandoned, served as safeguards against the besetting sin of all prose writers of their time, the habit of indulging in long wandering sentences, in paragraphs destitute of proportion and of grace, destitute even of ordinary manageableness and shape. A History of Elizabethan Literature
That we recommend that Relief Committees should be allowed to sell food under first cost to the destitute, in their respective neighbourhoods, and that their doing so should not disentitle them to The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
Even the hermit was expected to supply the needs of the sick and the destitute through the money he earned from his own handicraft.
D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
It is a parasite or saprophyte, and entirely destitute of chlorophyll, being pure white throughout. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
Old age homes are necessary, but essentially for the destitute and the poor.
Even when we have relinquished this infantine period, we are seldom left destitute of religious instruction.
As they rode home they passed a row of almshouses that Gifford had built and endowed for the widows of small Catholic tradesmen who had been left in destitute circumstances. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
The poet's family had become destitute in the previous bitter winter and her elderly mother had died of starvation. The Times Literary Supplement
‘Marched 32 miles over rough barren country destitute of both water and grass,’ Wright recorded that day.
He provided for the cure of the wounded, the habitancy of the houseless, the provision of the destitute. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
The rest of her family all died in a smallpox epidemic, leaving her destitute.
Humboldt considers the Mexican Indian as destitute of all imagination, though when to a certain degree educated, he attributes to him facility in learning, a clearness of understanding, a natural turn for reasoning, and a particular aptitude to subtilize and seize trifling distinctions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
Raised on a trailer park in Michigan, he spent much of his early career destitute and homeless. Times, Sunday Times
The t sounds of ‘coat’ and ‘destitute’ crack sharply amidst the long open vowels and wash of m's and w's.
Among the religious orders, only the friars had a vocation that by its very nature embraced the seriously poor and, indeed, the utterly destitute in the regular course of events.
We pity an idiot, and one that is naturally destitute of under standing, or one that loseth the use of his reason by a disease or other inevitable accident: but every one despiseth him who besots himself, and plays the fool out of carelessness and a gross neglect of himself. The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 07.
No problem, except for the destitute underfed children searching in dumps for dinner scraps. Duh pookie
Fifty percent of proceeds will go to African charities, Mr. Peter said, and he hopes the book will be the beginning of what he describes as a visual movement that will "create awareness" and "rebrand" destitute countries. NYT > Home Page
At any rate, Catherine, destitute of cash and friends, cannot disturb his possession.
Karim has been rendering selfless service to the destitute patients at the MCH for the last five years.
While frolicking tourists sunbathe on beaches and dine in swanky resorts, while a few thousand elite Moroccans are living high on the hog, millions of malnourished, destitute, and sallow Moroccans in remote rural areas scratch the dirt for survival and take shelter in dwellings so sparsely furnished and poorly built that they look like caves. Global Voices in English » Blogging About Poverty And Development In The Arab World
She preached the Christian gospel to the poor and destitute.
How parliaments make swine and vermin of men, who are destitute of morals and devoid of human attributes, is no more in the realm of magic, neither in that of magic realism.
He made grisailles of the destitute and maimed which have a moralizing character.
These, Denny, are empty and vapid slogans because those who use them are destitute of any imagination or feeling of what such greed, racism or imperialism is like.
Most people did not quality for a medical card unless they were destitute, unemployed or had a serious illness.
As you read this article, 15,000 destitute dads are spending time behind bars.
Beasts, which are destitute of our mental powers and acquirements; plants, which merely vegetate; stones, which are unendowed with sensation, are, in many respects, beings far more favored than man. A Philosophical Dictionary
Almost cotemporary with these was L. Gellius, who was not so much to be valued for his positive, as for his negative merits: for he was neither destitute of learning, nor invention, nor unacquainted with the history and the laws of his country; besides which, he had a tolerable freedom of expression. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
It's been three weeks since the beginning of the catastrophe and more than 20m people are destitute. Times, Sunday Times
So remote is this little place from the stir and bustle of travel, and so destitute of the show and vainglory of this world, that my calesa, as it rattled and jingled along the narrow and ill-paved streets, caused a great sensation; the children shouted and scampered along by its side, admiring its splendid trappings of brass and worsted, and gazing with reverence at the important stranger who came in so gorgeous an equipage. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)
He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
The fabular relations of the poets are so careful of decorum, that they never leave a Hercules destitute of necessaries; but those still spring, as out of some fountain, as well for him as for his companions. Essays and Miscellanies
But when they first meet, as children, she is a destitute peasant girl called Firecrackers.
In the Asian financial crisis he claims it triggered a co-ordinated attack on the Thai baht that "destituted tens of millions". Letters: Naked greed and moral purpose
Unless they can find friends or charitable bodies or persons, they will indeed be destitute.
Naturally this had immediate consequences for the destitute fed by the church chest that rich believers funded.
The eye of the spectator is disappointed by an irregular prospect of half-domes and shelving roofs: the western front, the principal approach, is destitute of simplicity and magnificence; and the scale of dimensions has been much surpassed by several of the Latin cathedrals. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
That money could be spent on the poor and destitute without expecting any reward for it from God.
Rotary has purchased land for the subdivision and Rotary Clubs from far and are now providing funds and teams of volunteers to build modest one-room homes to accommodate destitute families.
Thus man, the giant who now held her in captivity, would shrink to the diminutiveness of a fairy; and she would experience, that his utmost force was unable to enchain her soul, or compel her to fear him, while he was destitute of virtue. The Italian
They pass into the form of vapour, occupy a thousand times larger area, and possess an elasticity of compressibility and expansibility they were destitute of before. Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
Neither she nor I were charged with any offense, but while I was left homeless and destitute, she was granted control of her jointure lands and allowed to live at Chelsea Manor. Secrets of the Tudor Court
Living constantly in public, without opportunity for holding family intercourse, and being without either home cares or home pleasures, nomade, restless, pleasure-seeking habits are induced, which have led strangers to charge the Americans with being destitute of home life. The Englishwoman in America
Another institution of the municipality was the langarkhana, where money and grain doles were issued to the destitute once a week and clothes once a year.
But it needn't simply be a case of helping the destitute Afghans swap one set of repressive masters for another.
The cerebral and spinal veins, the veins of the cancellated tissue of bone, the pulmonary veins, and the umbilical vein and its branches, are also destitute of valves. V. Angiology. Introduction
Set in 2,500 square metres of land, the newly-built house, to be called Genesis, will become the refuge, and salvation, of ten destitute street urchins.
‘We have just learned through the southern Indians, that the troops are very destitute of provisions,’ it began.
The antheridia (Fig. 29, _E_) are hemispherical masses of closely set colorless cells, each of which develops a single spermatozoid which, like the tetraspores, is destitute of cilia, and is dependent upon the movement of the water to convey it to the neighborhood of the procarp. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
The logs were chinked with clay, and the one window, though destitute of glass, and ornamented with the inevitable board-shutter, had a green moreen curtain, which kept out the wind and the rain. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
The Indians have a fine natural genius for oratory, painting, and sculpture: I have a specimen of the latter cut with a knife on a piece of hickory, which is destitute neither of elegance of design, nor neatness of execution. Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.
Of so-called balsams, entirely destitute of cinnamic and benzoic constituents, the following are found in commerce: -- _Mecca balsam_ or _Balm of Gilead_, from _Commiphora opobalsamum_, a tree growing in Arabia and Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
No human soul is left destitute of the visiting of God's spirit, and however rudimentary the moral life may be, no bounds can be set to the growth which may, and which God intends should, result wherever the human will is consentient. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
After a dozen years of halfhearted efforts to achieve political and social reform, leaders north and south agreed to end reconstruction, returning the heirs of the southern aristocracy to power and leaving African Americans disfranchised, destitute, and more racially segregated than they had been before the war. Between War and Peace
In fact, according to the research of Phil Zuckerman, a professor of sociology at Pitzer College, In sum, countries marked by high rates of organic atheism are among the most societally healthy on earth, while societies characterized by non-existent rates of organic atheism are among the most destitute. Born to Believe
Jobless and destitute of funds, McClean enlists with the Black Knight Legion, a band of villainous mercenaries driven by the acquisition of financial gain.
But as the faith, which is not founded on revelation, must remain destitute of any firm assurance, the disciple of Plato imprudently relapsed into the habits of vulgar superstition; and the popular and philosophic notion of the Deity seems to have been confounded in the practice, the writings, and even in the mind of Julian. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Likewise, we once poured forth of our abundance in selfless sharing with the destitute of the world, obedient to the behest of God to "love one another" and to demonstrate our love by generously giving of our superabundance to those who are bereft of all substance. Wide, Wide World
This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
For hours we thus toiled up pathways seemingly fitter for goats than men, where leafless trees were bending destitute of life and helpless towards the valley, as the keen wind went sighing, moaning, wailing through their bare boughs and budless twigs. Across China on Foot
He is so as a disciple of Carlyle, as a prosperous Englishman, not destitute of flunkyism, and also as a man whose very best power is that of passionately admiring individual greatness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864
Four hundred other destitute families crowd a relief camp in a school a few kilometres up the road.
Many of the foreigners were utterly destitute; and their increasing numbers at length forbade a recourse to the usual modes of relief.
Despite a city ban a number of years ago, Pattaya is currently experiencing a resurgence in wandering elephants, as destitute mahouts look for extra income as the tourist season fades.
Then she added, O man, the neighbours use to see us light our oven every night; and, if they see us fireless this night, they will know that we are destitute. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In countries where the nobility are destitute of public employment, they naturally degenerate -- become the victims of the diseases of indolence and profligacy, transmit their decrepitude to their descendants, and bequeath dwarfishness and deformity to their name. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
While we had been a wealthy nation before colonisation, we were left destitute and poor by the end of it.
On the journey to London the carriage overturns, Thomas the postilion is bitten by Tabitha's ferocious and much-loved cur Chowder, and the destitute Humphry is engaged in Thomas's place.
Usually the reason bands have reunions is that one of them is destitute and the others want to help. Times, Sunday Times
The similitude is explained in the following words, It is a people of no understanding, brutish and sottish, and destitute of the knowledge of God, and that have no relish or savour of divine things, like a withered branch that has no sap in it; and this is at the bottom of all those sins for which God left them desolate, their idolatry first and afterwards their infidelity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
Kamehameha died in 1819, and was succeeded by his son, Lilohilo, or Kamehameha II., a mild and well disposed prince, but destitute of his father's energy.
Unlike U.S. cities, which have decayed from the center outward, Johannesburg is ringed by its destitute areas-a condition the South African economist Richard Tomlinson likens to a "too-tight belt around a very fat stomach. The Struggle to Govern Johannesburg
She is… utterly destitute of the sense of fear.
Drunkenness besots the understanding, ruins the constitution, and leaves those addicted to it in the last stages of life, in want and misery, equally destitute of all necessaries, and incapable to procure them. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
It is easy to distinguish two formations in the euphotide; one is destitute of amphibole, even when it alternates with amphibolic rocks Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
By the time he was a young teenager, he and his brother were orphaned, alone and destitute.
Very remarkable; fittest, perhaps, for an age fallen languid, destitute of faith and terrified at scepticism.
Set in a village, the tale describes how a destitute fiddler dies after entrusting his sick child and fiddle to the care of an old woman.
Indeed, he seems to have a thoroughly animalized intellect, destitute of the notion of relations, with ideas which are but the form of determinations, and which derive their force, not from reason, but from will. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
In repeating the above dialogue I have tried to give the impression which it made on me, that Parkins was something of an old woman -- rather henlike, perhaps, in his little ways; totally destitute, alas! of the sense of humour, but at the same time dauntless and sincere in his convictions, and a man deserving of the greatest respect. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
The English aristocracy of the 19th century cared little for the poor and destitute.
As for myself, I am destitute of all "medium-power," whatever that may be, though enthusiastic spirituelle ladies tell me I am "mediumistic" -- a qualification which is still more occult to me. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis
They seem destitute of ordinary human feelings.
The vicar from York who advised the destitute to shoplift is to be hauled before the Archdeacon of York to be told that his advice was misguided. Top stories from Times Online
Beside me in the line were ragged mothers with their children in their arms, and at their feet, old infirm men, and young men who are in destitute circumstances.
Not 25 yards behind me are nearly destitute people preparing to bed down for the night under flimsy pieces of cloth attached to poles.
But in some genera the larvae become developed either into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, or into what I have called complemental males: and in the latter, the development has assuredly been retrograde; for the male is a mere sack, which lives for a short time, and is destitute of mouth, stomach, or other organ of importance, excepting for reproduction. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Zakoura shifted its focus to targeting the destitute with loans of 1000 diram.
Of what we know as literary ambition, I believe myself to have been as destitute at that time as any girl who ever put pen to paper. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
How does Dr. Singh give 400 million of the poor and the destitute a stake in Indian democracy?
The means of grace are therefore for all of us, deaf, dumb, or destitute.
It doesn't leave you feeling desolate and destitute - it does give you hope.
Am afraid we will be left bankrupt and destitute but at least Josie will have perfect N American teeth. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
Nor is even the first heroine of the name destitute of a certain strange beauty in her fierceness, or of honesty in the midst of perverted passion and passionate perversity. Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells
He the prayer of the destitute ; he will not despise their plea.
Upon which design of variety it is, that the poets never represent the same persons always victorious or prosperous or acting with the same constant tenor of virtue; — yea, even the gods themselves, when they engage in human actions, are not represented as free from passions and errors; — lest, for the want of some difficulties. and cross passages, their poems should be destitute of that briskness which is requisite to move and astonish the minds of men. Essays and Miscellanies
They predicted that out of the tent - a temporary casino - would flow a stream of money unlike anything the destitute tribe had ever seen.
And though the "lubricity" of these poems is free from some ugly features which appear after the Italian wars of the late fifteenth century, it has never been more frankly destitute of shamefacedness. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
She preached the Christian gospel to the poor and destitute.
The means of grace are therefore for all of us, deaf, dumb, or destitute.
Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
She also once worked as a nanny in Sydney, but was left destitute when three female flatmates walked out leaving her with bills to pay.
Its position will be recognized on the vertical line between the frontal and occipital, as it is not an element of energy and success, nor of debility, but simply an element of debasing animalism, which is not destitute of force. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
Remember, all those seeds of protesting have long ago sprouted petals of warriorism in the destituted minds of black people longing to be free to fight for freedom of their people. Another Day, Another Kabaka Story...
In 1875 destitute bands of Flatheads and Pend d' Oreilles were pressing into Blackfeet territory.
The mucous membrane (tunica mucosa) in the cecum and colon, is pale, smooth, destitute of villi, and raised into numerous crescentic folds which correspond to the intervals between the sacculi. XI. Splanchnology. 2h. The Large Intestine
Jobless and destitute of funds, McClean enlists with the Black Knight Legion, a band of villainous mercenaries driven by the acquisition of financial gain.
They prodded authorities to raze the hundreds of alley shantytowns housing the city's poor and destitute.
According to General Canby, they were on Camas Prairie because ‘their country was almost entirely destitute of game,’ a complaint rendered all the more believable because of its frequency.
But in some genera the larvæ become developed into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, and into what I have called complemental males; and in the latter the development has assuredly been retrograde, for the male is a mere sack, which lives for a short time and is destitute of mouth, stomach, and every other organ of importance, excepting those for reproduction. XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Development and Embryology
He drew tears from them with the pathos of his picture of the bereaved widow Mabey and her three starving, destitute children -- "orphaned to avenge the death of a pheasant" -- and the bereaved mother of that M. de Vilmorin, a student of Rennes, known here to many of them, who had met his death in a noble endeavour to champion the cause of an esurient member of their afflicted order. Scaramouche
A compound of imbecility and baseness, yet an object of commiseration: an unmanly, blubbering, lovesick, querulous creature; a soldier, whining, piping and besprent with tears, destitute of any good quality to gain esteem, or any brilliant trait or interesting circumstance to relieve an actor under the weight of representing him. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
The frail nun, who died in 1997 after spending more than six decades caring for the destitute and homeless, was beatified yesterday by Pope John Paul II at a two-hour long ceremony in Rome.
Even in its gaunt incompleteness, destitute of the wealth of colour which is meant to adorn it, the interior of Bentley's spacious building is immensely impressive.
The single room in which the Dysons lived was ‘almost destitute of furniture.’
He thought their clothes ugly, ‘destitute of taste, destitute of grace, repulsive as a shroud’ and preferred aloud the simple, colorful and more natural native garb.
At present the surra is misapplied, and serves only to feed a swarm of persons in a state of complete idleness, while the poor are left destitute, and not the smallest encouragement is given to industry. Travels in Arabia
Its last coal shipment occurred in 1959 and, destitute of viable alternatives, it ceased trading in 1961.
So we see also that the science of medicine if it be destituted and forsaken by natural philosophy, it is not much better than an empirical practice. The Advancement of Learning
The documents speak of the appalling state the Academy of Sciences was in after Razumovsky - ramshackle buildings, destitute academicians who, not unlike their counterparts today, went unpaid for years.
Did it resemble the earth when this was destitute of an atmosphere?
Each woman and each man matters, even a drunk who dies destitute, which is what tragically happens to the boys 'father, Charlie. Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Touching Home
Oh yeah, that's when it got its own workhouse, too, for the parish destitutes.
They did not attempt to confront mobs as they set aflame people and properties, they set up no camps to shelter the bereaved and destitute survivors.
Many of us who were forced out of the country are now scattered all over the world as impoverished and financially destitute refugees.
Ethan did not want anyone in Starkfield to think that he was poor and destitute again.
By 1836 he was in the home-from-home for political runaways, London: destitute, living on potatoes, and planning his return home. American Connections
Destitute area residents live in homes constructed of mud, sticks and stones and the villages are only accessible by mountain dirt roads and foot paths.
Three days a week, workers visit the areas around the church with breakfasts and lunches for the destitute.
But virtually all begging street urchins, maimed men, mothers suckling infants and other ragged destitutes are Tibetan, not Chinese.
Charlottesville to open a pay school for colored pupils, but had not been successful, and having used all her money was in destitute circumstances so she came to us for aid and sympathy. Reminiscences of Philena Carkin
Cooper's weir was an obstruction that left upstream areas ‘without a fish to be seen’ and many of the ‘poorer classes destitute of fresh meat.’
He deplored the current urban landscape of his time, both its slums and wealthy apartments, as destitute of imagination, just as he rejected the view of art as the beauty parlor of civilization.
He lived the high life as a London yuppie and threw it all away to work with the poor and destitute in Liverpool slums.
Can you do something to increase the grant for the destitute children?
In both cases, the period that Ms. Jordan (a canonical figure herself, included in both anthologies) believed to be largely destitute of significance today makes up the bulk of the African American literary tradition.
They are most marked among leguminous plants, as shown by the trifoliolate leaves of the thorn-broom and allies, which in the adult state have green twigs destitute of leaves. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
Not only can a bad economy and being destitute turn you into a "family annihilator," say psychologists, so can the threat of losing your wife and kids which produces a feel of loss of control. Is the Economy Why People Are Killing Their Families?
Relying on impressions from travel books, Carey concluded that over half ‘of the sons of Adam… are in general poor, barbarous, naked pagans as destitute of civilisation, as they are of true religion.’
The transition from any value system to a new one must pass through that zero point of atomic dissolution, must take its way through a generation, destitute of any connection, with either the old or the new system.
But the destituted man said, sailor or no sailor, -- bos'en be hanged! he should pay for his whistle. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
Our family is now destitute. Times, Sunday Times
They are destitute, penniless and possessionless with no future.
The civilized race which conquered Egypt must have developed its mode of building in a forest country where timber was abundant, for it is not probable, that the idea of cylindrical columns originated in a country destitute of trees. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
In-between each of these districts are the slums, where the poor and destitute mope, hating their lives.
Epupillate: an ocellate spot included by a colored ring, but destitute of Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
They become destitute and homeless, relying on charity for shelter and food.
But it needn't simply be a case of helping the destitute Afghans swap one set of repressive masters for another.
Since the sea-bordering portions of America in many places are destitute of human habitations, the constant employment of surfmen is required for the express purpose of looking out for vessels in distress and manning the surf-boats. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
The downfal of the School, was a great Misfortune to Mrs. _Margery_; for she not only lost all her Books, but was destitute of a Place to teach in; but Sir William _Dove_, being informed of this, ordered the House to be built at his own Expence, and 'till that could be done, Farmer _Grove_ was so kind, as to let her have his large Hall to teach in. Goody Two-Shoes A Facsimile Reproduction of the Edition of 1766
To Athens, the Peloponnesians offered economic assistance to maintain their destitute people, and even a new home within the Peloponnese.
Some only lost fathers but were put in orphanages by destitute mothers who had no means to support them after the Gulf War.
Anything further removed from instinct it were hard to fancy; and one is even stirred to a certain impatience with a character so destitute of spontaneity, so passionless in justice, and so priggishly obedient to the voice of reason. Memories and Portraits
There was, however, a distinction in the last class between the proletarians, and those who were called capite censi.6 The first of these, not absolutely destitute of all means, gave citizens to the State, and sometimes soldiers in times of urgent necessity. The Social Contract
But men scarcely take pleasure at all in these things, at least those whom we call destitute of self-control do not, but only in the actual enjoyment which arises entirely from the sense of Touch, whether in eating or in drinking, or in grosser lusts. Ethics
They expanded a system of workhouses and poor relief for the destitute, built up municipal water and sewage systems, municipalized police forces, and oversaw public investment in landmarks that are still with us, such as the Thames Embankment and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations
The church historian should not be indifferent to the subject, or ‘so destitute of convictions as to form no moral judgments on the parties and individuals whose history he studies,’ he said.
This universe existed in the shape of darkness, unperceived , destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.
The destitute depended on begging, soup kitchens run by monks and nuns, and alms distributed by guilds, confraternities, and urban hospitals.
A great number of emigres arrived daily from the mainland, left homeless and often destitute of all worldly possessions.
If today's state-subsidised pensioners feel poor, tomorrow's will feel destitute - unless they work for the public sector. Times, Sunday Times
young recruits destitute of experience
But by an effort of the imagination, which likes to poetise things, we often carry over these attributes of a rational being to beings destitute of reason. The Works of Frederich Schiller
Jasper whispered his aunt, that nuncks was a vile bore; and the sacrilegious declaration gave great offence to the diminutive gentleman aforesaid, who hesitated not in pronouncing Timothy Surety destitute of taste and vertu; to which accusation Timothy, rearing his squat form to its utmost altitude, indignantly replied, "that there was not an alderman in the City of London of better taste than himself in the qualities of callipash and callipee, and that if the little gemmen presumed again to asperse his vartue, he would bring an action against him tor slander and defamation of character. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
Millions of mosquitoes swarmed over a food depot used by aid agencies to feed tens of thousands of people left destitute by floods.
Self-existing Substance is a Personal and Intelligent Being, and the assertion that this Substance is an Impersonal and Non-Intelligent Being, are alike assertions wholly destitute of any assignable degree of logical probability, I say _assignable_ degree of logical probability, because that A Candid Examination of Theism
But these young people are choosing to live in the world's most destitute urban slums, among the poorest of the poor.
` That all have revolted, that they are become unprofitable, that is, none who does good, no not one; their throat is an open sepulcher; there is no fear of God before their eyes, '(Psalm 5: 10; 14: 3) he deplores, truly, the impiety of his own age; yet Paul (Romans 3: 12) does not scruple to extend it to all men of every age: and with justice; for it is not a mere complaint concerning a few men, but a description of the human mind when left to itself, destitute of the Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
The destitute found the fare either by selling their remaining assets or by assistance from ratepayers and landlords.
The pharmaceutical industry will intone its familiar mantra: The cost of drugs is a relatively small percentage of total health care costs; innovation requires investment; research-based companies need to realize an adequate return on investment; and companies often establish access programs for destitute patients. Rational Decisions and Pharmaceutical Regulation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
These animals are of huge importance in the lives of destitute people.
Only the destitute are provided with any support, and then at the lowest level.

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