Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony. |
The stock market crash in the 1920s left him impecunious, however, and his attempt to make a mark as a painter came to little. |
Maggie takes up with and marries Prince Amerigo, an impecunious Italian nobleman with a wreck of a castle in his homeland. |
Occasionally, the owner took pity on us impecunious students and gave us an offcut of something for free. |
I was aware of two games on Saturday where the relatively impecunious visitors were regarded as massive underdogs. |
The neighbour who gave me the tickets was an impecunious artist and I was sitting in the cheap seats, just out of range, even from ricochets. |