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Sentences starting with poverty

Poverty comes pleading, not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares. [6]
Poverty and sorrow, loss and bereavement, were in every street, peeped mournfully out of every window, lurked at street corners. [11]
Poverty is unpleasant, and the great struggle of life is to get rid of it; but it is the common fortune that in proportion as wealth is attained the capacity of enjoying it departs. [4]

Sentences ending with poverty

Indeed, an artist would not have painted her as a rapt angelic visitant to this abode of poverty. [4]
The pearls were worth over ten thousand dollars--in all, there would be eleven thousand, enough to secure Rosalie from poverty. [11]
The East Side was left pretty much to itself, now that the winter philanthropists had gone away, and was enjoying its summer nights and its irresponsible poverty. [4]
You can never trust to inherited poverty. [4]
Their brother was tolerably well, having got to the end of a considerable sum of money which he became possessed of in the spring, and therefore under the wholesome restriction of poverty. [14]
The property bequeathed to him by Myrtilus had been placed by the merchant in the royal bank, and he had also protected himself against any chance of poverty. [10]
You would have to be poor, without the means of hiding your poverty. [7]
His position was the more difficult because with his salary of twelve hundred rubles he had not only to keep himself, his mother, and Sonya, but had to shield his mother from knowledge of their poverty. [2]
He looked around the little room, showing so peacefully in the moonlight--the religious symbols, the purity, the cleanliness, the calm poverty. [11]
And, besides, since the last great capture, in which the old man allowed me a share of my own, I, too, need not complain of poverty. [10]

Short sentences using poverty

Her poverty! [5]

Sentences containing poverty two or more times

Was there ever such a mother as Kit's mother, on her son's showing; or was there ever such comfort in poverty as in the poverty of Kit's family, if any correct judgment might be arrived at, from his own glowing account! [12]
Not poverty in inventing situations, but poverty in furnishing reasons for them. [5]
I have borne great poverty myself, and would spare her the sufferings that poverty carries with it. [12]

More example sentences with the word poverty in them

True, it was your duty; for ever since Isabella became my wife you have taken advantage of my poverty and impaired my right to command her. [10]
She seemed still young, but poverty had marked her with unmistakable signs. [9]
Didn't I take you out of poverty, and make you head of all this, with people to wait on you and all the rest of it? [11]
When she was widowed, and he found her in dire poverty, he helped her with a large share of his savings, and performed this kind service again, when the second worthless fellow she married had squandered her last penny. [10]
It was Nancy who managed the economy, who accomplished remarkable things with a sum they would have deemed poverty in former days. [9]
What is poverty, what is blindness! [10]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
But everything is well, now--we are done with poverty, sad toil, weariness and heart-break; all the world is filled with sunshine. [5]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
This good Samaritan was not only taking me into his home, but would fight for my rights with the strong brain that had lifted him out of poverty and obscurity. [9]
The Colonel's tongue was a magician's wand that turned dried apples into figs and water into wine as easily as it could change a hovel into a palace and present poverty into imminent future riches. [5]
They are piteous wails, too, wails of despair; and one of them is an eloquent reproach; it comes from a poor fellow who has been laden beyond his strength by a stupid teacher, and is eloquent in spite of the poverty of its English. [5]
It was like unto nothing we had ever seen, nor can I give an adequate notion of how it affected us,--such a mixture it seemed of dirt and poverty and wealth and romance. [9]
Simplicity is not ugliness, nor poverty, nor barrenness, nor necessarily plainness. [4]
As Ruth Leigh tramped along late this afternoon in the slush of the streets, from one house of sickness and poverty to another, a sense of her puny efforts in this great mass of suffering and injustice came over her anew. [4]
One ought, indeed, to turn away from her rags, her poverty and her humiliation, and think of her only as she was when she sunk the fleets of Charlemagne; when she humbled Frederick Barbarossa or waved her victorious banners above the battlements of Constantinople. [5]
They had lived to prove, once more, a sad truth which had been proven many times before in the world: that whereas principle is a great and noble protection against showy and degrading vanities and vices, poverty is worth six of it. [5]
Now she chose to kiss the one upon whom she had heaped obscurity and poverty and contumely. [9]
Those who wished to escape fasting are now compelled by poverty to practise abstinence. [10]
For a long time she has been unwilling to share my poverty, and if Herr Peter had remained loyal to our holy religion, I would persuade her myself. [10]
Spite of all this, that community of goods produced a chronic state of poverty in the church of Jerusalem. [4]
The vitality of this club has depended in a great measure on its utter poverty in statutes and by-laws, its entire absence of formality, and its blessed freedom from speech-making. [6]
I tried to think of some non-committal thing to say, to keep up my end of the talk, and render my poverty in the matter of reminiscences as little noticeable as possible, but I seemed to be about out of non-committal things. [5]
In their poverty they work these sorry things to the bone. [5]
The attention that these audacious satires of the theater, the actors, and their audience attracted is evidence of the literary poverty of the period. [4]
In sign of their poverty they are sent to their grave naked, in sign of their equality the bones of the rich, the poor, the illustrious and the obscure are flung into the common well together. [5]
I think that the woman in the Scriptures who out of her poverty put her mite into the contribution-box got more happiness out of that driblet of generosity and self-sacrifice than some men in our day have experienced in founding a university. [4]
When I see the story I may take the other side and urge you to go on, even if you are as poor as a church-mouse, and have to be under the harrow of poverty for years. [4]
To spare to the needy from poverty like hers is fine and true generosity. [5]
Besides poverty and the necessity of attending to business, those "coming events," I suspect, would be somewhat in the way. [7]
For short distances the lowest poverty, the hardest pressed labor, must walk; but March never entered a car without encountering some interesting shape of shabby adversity, which was almost always adversity of foreign birth. [8]
The houseless prince, the homeless heir to the throne of England, still moved on, drifting deeper into the maze of squalid alleys where the swarming hives of poverty and misery were massed together. [5]
We were in the heart and home of priest craft--of a happy, cheerful, contented ignorance, superstition, degradation, poverty, indolence, and everlasting unaspiring worthlessness. [5]
At first, in the excitement and the confusion, amid the debris of so much possible wealth, Mavick kept a sort of position, and did not immediately feel the pinch of vulgar poverty. [4]
He had watched the decline of Dyck's fortunes with an eye of appreciation; he had seen the clouds of poverty and anxiety closing in. [11]
In fact, from that time the marquise entirely changed her manner, and instead of flattering her ward as before, she treated her with haughty coldness, and sometimes remarked that poverty and hostility were often easier to bear than intrusive kindness and humiliating gifts. [10]
I am aware that it is said that the culture of the age is itself materialistic, and that its refinements are sensual; that there is little to choose between the coarse excesses of poverty and the polished and more decorous animality of the more fortunate. [4]
It presently appeared that in their early youth they had known poverty and hardship. [5]
But life is sweet even with poverty and rheumatism and eighty years. [4]
I could not suffer such poverty again. [11]
It had been stolen, and in all the bitter days to come, when poverty and misery ground them down, no hint of the thief, no sign of the robber, was ever revealed. [11]
There certainly were some things even here which the host was not bound to supply to his military; he, Caesar, would provide them with these, and for that purpose he had put aside two million denarii out of his own poverty to distribute among them. [10]
And Cynthia thought so too, as she clung to Jethro's arm between the carriages and the clanging street-cars, and looked upon the riches and poverty around her. [9]
And yet sickness seemed to trouble him no more than poverty. [4]
He had been saying in his little talk that poverty is no excuse for irreligion, and that all aid in the hardship of this world was vain and worthless unless the sinner laid hold on eternal life. [4]
Eldon Parr had said that poverty was inevitable. [9]
Here they are safe from poverty, cared for in sickness, and have no fear of being handed over to the keepers of carrion, or being the food of the gallinaso. [11]
Still, it shouldn't--for right in the depths of their poverty and their pocket-hunting vagabondage lay the germ of my coming good fortune. [5]
Pleasure, Love, Fame, Riches: they are but temporary disguises for lasting realities--Pain, Grief, Shame, Poverty. [5]
Kilquhanity was a retired soldier, on pension, and Pontiac was a place of peace and poverty. [11]
The presence and remarks of Willarski who continually deplored the ignorance and poverty of Russia and its backwardness compared with Europe only heightened Pierre's pleasure. [2]
Shiftlessness and poverty reigned in the place. [5]
Perhaps that's one reason why poo' people have to woak so hawd-to keep their wands off their poverty. [8]
There is no reason why an author should pay for the privilege of a long life by the loss of his copyrights, and that his old age should be embittered by poverty because he cannot have the results of the labor of his vigorous years. [4]
She guessed a reason for this poverty of Cassy Mavor, but it only made her lay a hand on the little woman's shoulders and look into her eyes. [11]
She would not readily have understood that love could have any sort of relation to riches or poverty. [4]
Which should we rank the higher, power and poverty or mental wealth? [10]
For two hours rank and wealth, and obscurity and poverty clatter along side by side in the wild procession, and then go home serene, happy, covered with glory! [5]
Think of the ragged poverty of a language which has to make one word do the work of six--and a poor little weak thing of only three letters at that. [5]
Her savings went quickly enough, and she fell into dire poverty, for she had not yet recovered her strength, and could not do housework. [10]
Neither hunger, thirst, poverty, grief, hatred, contempt, nor persecution could drive the Mormons from their faith or their allegiance; and even the thirst for gold, which gleaned the flower of the youth and strength of many nations was not able to entice them! [5]
It was a poverty stricken place. [5]
And oh, the poverty of the invention! [5]
There is real poverty in those rooming houses, and I have never seen vice so defiant and shameless. [9]
The problem of poverty and helplessness and incapacity seemed to her more hopeless than when she began. [4]
But Francis preferred poverty and contempt, nay, even his father's curse and the reproach of ingratitude, receiving in exchange possessions of a nobler nature and more lasting character. [10]
This contact with poverty and coming death was quite in her ordinary experience. [4]
The man who possesses such a treasure as I have in thee, will guard it carefully, but never care to seek for others which, by its side, can only show their miserable poverty. [10]
Witter Bynner, the poet, was one of the editors of McClure's Magazine at this time, but was trying to muster the courage to give up routine work for verse-making and the possibility of poverty. [5]
Again this quarter passed, they came upon a straggling neighbourhood, where the mean houses parcelled off in rooms, and windows patched with rags and paper, told of the populous poverty that sheltered there. [12]
He was often overwhelmed, too, by the remembrance of the terrible end of the friend in whom he saw the only person who might have given him consolation in this distress, and the painful thought of his poverty. [10]
We cannot relax our efforts in regard to the relations of poverty, drink, and unsanitary conditions, as leading to crime. [4]
Poverty, which is only the unequal distribution of things desired, makes strife, and is the opportunity of lawyers; and infirmity is the excuse for doctors. [4]
The nation numbers only eight hundred thousand souls, and there is poverty and misery and mendacity enough among them to furnish forty millions and be liberal about it. [5]
He who listens once to that song hears it always in his ears, through disappointment and success--and the success is often the greatest disappointment--through poverty and hope deferred and heart-sickness for recognition, through the hot time of youth and the creeping incapacity of old age. [4]
But he was old, and he looked feeble, so her mind instantly changed again, and she offered him a seat on a bench beside the arched doorway with the superscription: "Nor Poverty nor Riches, but Daily Bread Under Mine Own Fig Tree. [11]
I am glad of the disposition he has shown to rescue them from the evils of poverty, and if they are still in London, I hope to have a talk with them. [5]
Why poverty has nothing to do with such rich folks as we are! [10]
Believe it or not, I composed the merry little thing when in great sorrow and poverty, just to warm my heart. [10]
Cambyses surely would not wish us to suffer from poverty in our last hours, though he does forbid our fathers and friends to visit us. [10]
Besides, foreigners could not see so clearly as the Russians how much the Government was responsible for the grinding poverty of the masses; nor could they very well realize the moral wretchedness imposed by that Government upon the whole of educated Russia. [5]
For poetry is not merely the comfort of the refined and the delight of the educated; it is the alleviator of poverty, the pleasure-ground of the ignorant, the bright spot in the most dreary pilgrimage. [4]
But poverty is not commonly a nurse of virtue, long continued, it is a degeneration. [4]
But there 's no telling what folks will do when poverty has got hold of 'em. [6]
I believe I never appreciated, till then, the poverty of the human machinery--for I still needed a hand or two to place elsewhere. [5]
And does not Nature plant me as an eye to behold her beauties while she is dressed in the glories of leaf and flower, and draw the icy lid over my shining surface when she stands naked and ashamed in the poverty of winter? [6]
She detested the narrow limits in which her lot was cast, she hated poverty. [5]
But take the names of its contributors during its first fifty years from the literary record of that period, and we should have but a meagre list of mediocrities, saved from absolute poverty by the genius of two or three writers like Irving and Cooper. [6]
It may be more difficult to maintain simplicity of living with a great fortune than in poverty, but simplicity of spirit--that is, superiority of soul to circumstance--is possible in any condition. [4]
There is no merit in riches nor in poverty. [4]
Did the starving men feed him from their dire poverty? [5]
It seems to me that the millennium is to come by an infusion into all society of a truer culture, which is neither of poverty nor of wealth, but is the beautiful fruit of the development of the higher part of man's nature. [4]
Even the noble may submit to the misfortunes entailed by poverty, but the advantages it brings with it he can never enjoy unless he resigns himself to being so no longer. [10]
If the old man lied, and had not been in prison all these years, he must have had misery far worse, for neither vice nor poverty alone could so shatter a human being. [11]
That would be lovely; that would make her forget her woes and her poverty. [5]
However, little by little the Sellers family cooled down and crystalized into shape, and the poor room lost its glitter and resumed its poverty. [5]
But suppose a limit to be agreed on, and the rich old man and the rich old woman (never now too old to marry) to start on their career towards youth and poverty. [4]
When he at last returned home, his house had been taken from his family, whom he found in extreme poverty. [10]
But what is known as industrialism brought in its train fear and favour, privilege and poverty, slums, disease, and municipal vice, fostered a too rapid immigration, established in America a tenant system alien to our traditions. [9]
He said that it was but too evident that this person had approached him in the hope of obtaining a bribe; he had intruded himself time and again, and always with moving stories of his poverty. [5]

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