How To Use Penury In A Sentence
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He's reclining on a couch looking surprisingly relaxed and amused as he relates the story of how penury forced him into such an unusual career choice.
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Asianet, whose stringer he used to be, has pretty much dumped him, and his legal expenses have reduced him to penury.
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Those that love to boast of their business and make a noise about it, and that waste their time in tittle-tattle, in telling and hearing new things, like the Athenians, and, under pretence of improving themselves by conversation, neglect the work of their place and day, they waste what they have, and the course they take tends to penury, and will end in it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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He knew all about the sale of lands that forced small crofters off the lands their families had tended for hundreds of years, all about the dreadful conditions of penury and starvation in the cities, the simple insupportableness of life in Scotland in these days.
Drums of Autumn
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This, however, is not the place to expatiate on Ormskirk's extraordinary career; his rise from penury and obscurity, tempered indeed by gentle birth, to the priviest secrets of his Majesty's council, -- climbing the peerage step by step, as though that institution had been a garden-ladder, -- may be read of in the history books.
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
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It may be true that there are among Buddhist mendicants, living on alms in dirt and penury, some who feel perfectly happy and do not envy any nabob.
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He was reduced to living in penury in miserable exile in France; and on his return to York he was imprisoned for three months.
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That is, all societies, once they move from the level of hunting and gathering to that of Command, create categories of privilege and disprivilege, ranging from aristocracy to slavery, from class to caste, from the rights of property to the disadvantages of penury.
The Worldly Philosophers
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My Gyr- Prairie tiercel was stolen this spring and so far possible replacements have fallen through partially because breeders failed, partly because of penury.
Gyr
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But despite his outstanding gifts he's soon in penury again because the crocodile he has adopted is scaring off potential clients.
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A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.
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It was her penury and negligence that let the house deteriorate.
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If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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With every growing line, I felt my confidence growing… It seemed that I could palliate my secret, almost erase the penury I had once lived in.
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He was not a poverty-stricken peasant's son looking to escape penury.
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It is also unfit that any human being possessed of this precious and sacred treasure of human life should live in meanness, in penury, in hardship, in torment, unless these things be perceivably for disciplinary or retaliatory purposes imposed upon that life by the official sentence of organized society.
The Ontario Minimum Wage Bill
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Perhaps it was unavoidable, yet it was a road that led past ruin, default and penury, through the plunder of Russia and the impoverishment of Russians.
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What has happened to my 71-year-old mother recently has reduced her to near penury.
Times, Sunday Times
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A succession of bad harvest had reduced the small farmer to penury.
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Women who believe they are in for a reasonable standard of living during widowhood, are to be step-by-step, reduced to penury.
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Only in Kent and in Wales did the custom of gavelkind produce the partible inheritance which reduced many noble families to penury on the continent.
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It is a miracle that her flimsy frame has been able to survive the extremes of weather, utter penury and the cruel sneers of her snobbish compatriots during her hellish ordeal.
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It is characteristic that this man, who is probably a drunkard and shebeener and certainly in penury, refused the chance of a shilling because he felt that I did not like him.
The Aran Islands
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But war, international sanctions and economic penury have all but extinguished the ancient craftsmanship passed on from father to son for generations.
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In overcoming that penury, modern technology as well as economic interrelations have been influential.
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No wonder, then, that an air of peculiar respectability attached itself to the "wheel" itself which revolved in a corner of the barroom night after night, whirling into opulence or penury, such as entrusted their fortunes to its revolutions.
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
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After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
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Both clubs have known penury, relegation and near extinction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having been reduced to penury, struggling to survive, they no longer serve as an effective political opposition.
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To say that evangelical Christians believe that non-evangelicals deserve to suffer and die is like saying that people who sell life and disability insurance believe that those who don’t follow their advice to buy insurance *deserve* to suffer and live in penury and/or have their families suffer and live in penury if they die or become disabled.
The Volokh Conspiracy » HRW’s Whitson Defends Fundraising in Totalitarian Countries:
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I will reduce myself to penury to save you from the evils of gambling, even if it means winning millions of pounds.
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Even in the middle of penury, dreams remain colourful.
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Well, any reader wishing to help Jason escape the cold streets of penury and warm himself by the fire of solvency should begin rummaging for shrapnel in their pockets now.
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In a globalized economy, it imposes penury on trading partners, especially the poorest countries.
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Now, as then, a government is reducing its citizens to penury as they are deprived of their income and homes.
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The judge replied that most asylum-seekers who were threatened with penury couldn't get near the few underpaid lawyers who were prepared to give them a hearing.
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Stamp's father was a stoker on the Thames boats and the family lived in the East End in near penury.
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He wanted to alter the terms agreed with his ex-wife because the way it was structured meant the credit crunch had reduced him to relative penury.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury.
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The simple reality for most people is that they must save more if they want to avoid penury in old age.
Times, Sunday Times
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It follows that you don't have to reduce yourself to utter penury.
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While Dupleix died in penury, Clive died by his own hand when he was not yet 50.
`Garden House'. Once home to Robert Clive
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Because of his claimed penury, Mr Hamilton has abandoned plans to contest the libel verdict.
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Because of his claimed penury, Mr Hamilton has abandoned plans to contest the libel verdict.
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The Association must so present its work to the churches as to "constrain" them to give; drag them by the chains of Christian duty to give; those who can of their abundance abundantly; those who must of their penury, with this tremendous self-sacrifice.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 01, January, 1889
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On the whole, it is an earnest attempt to preserve traditional crafts from extinction and to help skilled craftsmen and weavers, who are living in penury.
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Having married her, as he openly avowed, for her fortune alone, he soon dissipated this, the solitary charm she possessed for him, and was then unmanful enough to taunt her with the inconveniences of that penury which his own extravagance had occasioned.
Life of Lord Byron
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Price rises due to his stealth taxes have reduced thousands like me to utter penury.
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After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
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Falling in love with a tea vendor could suit the infatuated young mind but when it comes to marriage she is able to visualise the agony of penury and gets out of the affair.
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Bastille Day in France commemorates the French Revolution and reminds us of one of the most unpleasant and blood-soaked regimes ever to have reduced a country to penury.
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If you're a glutton for Dickens and you'll need to be, with the BBC already stuffing its schedules with the forthcoming bicentenary of his birth, jolly spoofery abounds in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which features Robert Webb as an upstanding Victorian retailer of nonsense items thrown into sudden penury by bewhiskered evil Stephen Fry in a stovepipe hat.
Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
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Living a life in penury, they have sold everything.
