Sentence examples for the penniless from inspiring English sources

Defender of the penniless and lost causes.

I would go the penniless Web route to get practice".

The penniless farmer brightened with his first optimistic thought.

He abandoned the penniless existence of a subsistence fisherman to become a big-city vegetable seller.

After the penniless Alcott refused to hire her as his deputy, she proposed marriage instead.

One person complained about the "penniless migrants [who] sit outside their restaurant and watch them eat".

When the penniless Smith first gets to New York she sleeps in Central Park and graveyards.

Family allowance would redress the gross injustice of the penniless mother who had been economically "disinherited".

"The romantic idea of the penniless writer is false," he says.

The penniless Lady Carbury is desperate for her feckless boy Sir Felix to marry Melmotte's daughter.

Bourgeois filled the stalls and boxes while the penniless Gavroches sat in the gods.