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Sentences ending with penniless

He must receive this before he learns of the reward placard--before he rises in the morning--lest he lose his head and fly the place penniless. [5]
He had also tactfully declined an offer of money from the Prince--none the less decidedly because he was nearly penniless. [11]
He got deeply in debt; he borrowed money on the firm's credit, as quietly as he could, and carried this system so far and so successfully that one morning the sheriff took possession of the establishment, and the two cousins found themselves penniless. [5]
He had paid assessments on a mine called the "Daley" till he was well-nigh penniless. [5]
I came aboard a common sailor, a quota man, a prison-bird, penniless. [11]

More example sentences with the word penniless in them

Then, penniless, he would have to face Mona again; and what would come of that he could not see, would not try to see. [11]
Imagine a man worth a hundred millions who finds himself suddenly penniless and fifty million in debt in his old age. [5]
I cannot understand why he married that penniless and empty-headed beauty. [9]
Is it so unpleasant for a man who thinks he is penniless to be told that he has made the year's income of a cabinet minister? [11]
But, but"--her eyes took on a deep, steady, far-away look--"but I will save him; and we shall not be penniless in the end. [11]
During all this time I had but one piece of money--a silver ten cent piece--and I held to it and would not spend it on any account, lest the consciousness coming strong upon me that I was entirely penniless, might suggest suicide. [5]
Did you ever think, Mona, that a man must suffer when he goes out into a world where he knows no one, penniless, with no trade, no profession, nothing except his own helpless self? [11]
It did not seem possible, and yet if the man was penniless and an anarchist maybe, there was the possibility. [11]
The letter he read so often was from Kingsley Bey, the Englishman, who, coming to Egypt penniless, and leaving estates behind him encumbered beyond release, as it would seem, had made a fortune and a name in a curious way. [11]
He chooses a penniless exile--he, a butler to the Queen, with three dove-cotes and the perquage--and a Huguenot withal. [11]
He was quite overcome by this treatment of a penniless young Yankee. [9]
His own career of late years had been marked by long sojourns in Quebec, Montreal and even New York; yet he always came back to St. Saviour's when he was penniless, and was there started afresh by Jean Jacques. [11]
Then, believing in no one in Egypt any more, he himself went with an armed escort and his Quaker hat, and the Order of the Khedive, to Fazougli, and brought Shelek Pasha penniless to Cairo. [11]
Certainly he was never one to give himself airs, but to have the world's great literary center paying court to him, who only ten years before had been penniless and unknown, and who once had been a barefoot Tom Sawyer in Hannibal, was quite startling. [5]
He had not meant to remain more than four days at Silverdale, that she knew; he had not meant to come to America and fall in love with a penniless beauty--that she knew also. [9]
The paper was made out in the name of Juliane, she gave up her little store, and returned to the inn a penniless beggar, but with a lighter heart, carrying the precious paper under the handkerchief crossed over her bosom. [10]
Yonder stately old house gave its daughter to the penniless knight. [10]
I could not help seeing the hardness of it all, or refrain from contrasting my situation with that of the penniless outcast I had been but a little time before. [9]
It reached Dyck's hands on the day after the last penny had been paid out for their lodgings, and they faced the streets, penniless, foodless--one was going to say friendless. [11]
And penniless, too--his father has cast him off. [11]
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. [7]
The prudent penniless beginner in the world labors for wages a while, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. [7]
Go away naked and come back clothed, empty and come back filled, simple and come back with a wink of knowledge, penniless and come back with the price of numerous vergees of land, and you might answer the island catechism without fear. [11]
The life of a friendless though not penniless relation, taken into a wealthy house out of charity, had proved a thorny path to tread, but now-since the day before yesterday--all was changed. [10]

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