Sentence examples for penury at from inspiring English sources

He can keep the appearance of penury at bay.

Although enthusiastically supported by the major parties, the fact is they continue to plunge families into penury at an increasing rate.

The bulk of the war years was spent either in thwarted projects or in spells of unemployment and penury; at the end of 1941, he had to borrow a hundred dollars from a friend.

There are relatively few signs of the aching poverty that afflicts other parts of Latin America, though a developing world debt crisis drove many to penury at the beginning of this century.

Burdened by debt at the top and penury at the bottom and open to takeovers by anyone who can claim to have a personal acquaintance with the Royal Bank of Ruritania, the Premier League has become a plutocratic competition, which only a small handful of teams can hope to win, while the rest simply struggle to keep up and stay up.

I'm just glad to be repeatedly reminded of my penury at this point.

To be sure, I have taken many nonwriting jobs along the way to stave off complete penury: clerking at Tower Books, notarizing documents, mopping floors at the University of California-Davis MedicandCenter, and working low-level jobs in the title-insurance industry (usually for the company that was employing Julie at the time).

He told BBC Scotland's Newsweek, the final days were spent in penury and despair at the mess in which he had left his family.

If the fabricated name was intended to confer an elevated status, it was because Annie Sullivan, born into penury, had no status at all.

Shakespeare, we learn, lodged "in a quiet, well-to-do street, an urban backwater, though as always in London you were not far from the more pungent life of the city: the taverns and inn-yards of Wood Street, the girls down Love Lane, the penury of the Hole at the Counter".

When Jane chafes with dangerous indignation at the penury and discipline of the schoolmaster Brocklehurst (Michael Matus), Bertha rattles the attic floorboards; as Jane feels her first stirring of desire for Rochester (Sean Murray), whose bullying belies his own secret heart, Bertha lights a fire.