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"Penury" Quotes from Famous Books

... ye affluent, And when the overplus of your fortunes disturb Your minds, think how little stops the lash of penury, ...

— The History of Sir Richard Whittington • T. H.

... Arthur Gride, in whose face there was not a wrinkle, in whose dress there was not one spare fold or plait, but expressed the most covetous and griping penury, and sufficiently indicated his belonging to that class of which Ralph Nickleby was a member. Such was old Arthur Gride, as he sat in a low chair looking up into the face of Ralph Nickleby, who, lounging upon the tall office stool, ...

— The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens

... formidable paper need not alarm you; it argues nothing beyond penury of other sorts, and is not at all likely to lead me into a long letter. If I were at all grateful it would, for yours has just passed for me a considerable part of a stormy evening. And speaking of gratitude, let me at once and with becoming eagerness accept ...

— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... extraordinary day of the club festival may be passed over very cursorily. There were a number of skirmishes with Mrs. Hall on matters of domestic discipline, but in every case until late April, when the first signs of penury began, he over-rode her by the easy expedient of an extra payment. Hall did not like him, and whenever he dared he talked of the advisability of getting rid of him; but he showed his dislike chiefly by concealing it ostentatiously, and avoiding his visitor as much as possible. "Wait till the summer," ...

— The Invisible Man • H. G. Wells

... than a hundred thousand head of animals, which reduced the country to very great want, while the natives died of starvation in great numbers. Although there was more maize in Quito than can be told, this bad order of things brought such penury on the people that a measure of maize came to cost ten pesos, and a sheep the same. 7. When the said captain returned from the coast, he determined to leave Quito, to go in search of Captain Juan de Ampudia. He took ...

— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt

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