Sentence examples for total penury from inspiring English sources

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.

"Penury, George, eh?

Penury loves company.

Justitia lives in great penury.

Gregory XIII spent the papacy into penury.

The second group live in penury.

Most of the remainder have been reduced to penury.

Olympians die in penury and in want of medical attention.

Even so, many of them slid into penury or alcoholism.

Worse, droughts reduced them to penury.

"Penury," he reflects, "makes people fearful and conformist".