Sentence examples for from penury from inspiring English sources

To save them from penury, mother and daughter take in lodgers – "paying guests" in polite parlance.

Mr Bird's favourite topic was Antigua's transformation under his leadership from penury to relative prosperity.

It is in trouble, and it must be saved from penury.

Some Americans may even have ancestors saved from penury by the New Deal.

From penury to the Premiership in just over a year is fairytale stuff.

Yet she died as she lived, a stone's throw from penury.

But these days both sexes have access to the workplace, and the protection that women like Katrin Radmacher require isn't from helpless penury, but from rapacity – the greed of ex-husbands who violate what should be legally binding contracts to turn divorce into a nice little earner.

Friedrich Engels was the self-described "second fiddle", who, along with some timely inheritances, saved the Marxes from total penury and allowed Karl the freedom to write Das Kapital.

News of the survey has brought lamentations from the Society of Authors this weekend and tales of penury from several well-known writers, including the Carnegie medal-winning writer Mal Peet, who described his income from sales as "literally abject".

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.

Having emerged from war and penury to become peaceful, stable and increasingly prosperous, Vietnam sets an example for others.