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Sentence Examples Penniless and without protection, Pamela is pursued by Mr B., Lady B.'s son, but she repulses him and remains determined to retain her chastity and her unsullied conscience. Penniless and desperate, she raided the contents of his purse. I was penniless and facing bankruptcy and the prospect of being prosecuted in court for a whole range of civil and criminal offences. But the relationship ended acrimoniously in 1992, and H took all the money and property, leaving her partner penniless. I don't just go flying around the country on a whim, dammit, I'm a penniless student! It was, evidently, some poor penniless wretch trying to keep from freezing to death on the coldest day of the year. A penniless Fred, still in striped pants, tailcoat, and spats, hops a freight for New York, with Pop in tow. She died, virtually penniless, in 1965 after overdosing on alcohol and barbiturates. And when the long-awaited idea finally comes, it gets gratefully nursed like a drink by a penniless toper unable to pay for a refill. She had been wealthy in Iran, and possibly found a marriage of convenience to a penniless student nurse unappealing. A series of slapstick events leave both penniless and on the run, where they form a grudging bond. The movie ignores the fact that he was an alcoholic who died a penniless boozer. A walk through the shopping district will leave you breathless and, sometimes, penniless, but it is a worthwhile go. And a tourist in Krakow does not want to be left penniless, when there is glossy amber to be bought and intricate handcrafts to be bartered over. We've already mentioned penniless banana growers and people who don't want a stomachful of growth hormones. He plays Valentin, the hot-headed younger son for whom being a de Bellegarde means going penniless. By Winter he is penniless, far from home, and buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. I had used all the money to get to England so I was penniless in a foreign land with only the clothes on my back and my sword to my name. We were completely penniless, with three young children, helpless in an unfamiliar city. Monet valued the comforts of a middle-class existence, and even as a penniless student his love of the finer things in life was noted. Show More Sentences They were penniless and Mary knew that a stage career was her only hope of survival. Mind you, I'm also filling up on all the industrial music that I couldn't afford when I was a penniless student. Relocated to a contemporary setting, the story tells of a penniless prostitute chosen and gifted with wealth by the Gods. I leapt into the car and in gratitude shot off to buy a box of chocolates for my saviours then realised I was penniless and cardless. As a result, many of them have had to resort to shooting kangaroos in order to sell the meat, as they are almost penniless. He was under the impression the the hut committee had spent all of the memorial fund and that we were penniless. Her father's once prosperous business had fallen apart and they were left penniless due to their huge debts. She and her mother were left penniless after her father died, the family having earlier lost their home to river erosion. One hundred years ago, Montmartre was a cheap area to live in, and so attracted penniless artists. Senior partners in legal firms rubbed shoulders with penniless students and dedicated barflies. Nearly one-third of filers claimed they were nearly penniless after paying these fees. A distraught York mother says she has no idea how she will feed her family over Easter after tax credits chaos left her almost penniless. Tony, a footloose and hard-living traveller, finds himself penniless and without a job out in the wilds of Kenya. A penniless writer used to sit here all day, writing the early draft chapters of her now famous novel. Unlike my enthusiastic but penniless grandfather, I had laws and resources on my side. We were penniless and without shoes while people from the same hotel sat next to us in the airport flagrantly eating burgers and chips and drinking coke. So, to placate his parents, he decides to marry Wei-Wei, a penniless Chinese opera singer in his building. He was born in a barn to penniless parents who were part of a people under occupation. The rocker posted a rambling video on his Facebook page claiming he's broke and penniless. Lemkin died penniless at a bus stop in 1959, on his way to another day lobbying at the United Nations. Show More Sentences My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century and married into a penniless but well-bred local family. They are destitute, penniless and possessionless with no future. He told stories about his days as a penniless college student trying to make it in Greenwich Village. When she discovers that he lives alone and is truly penniless, she thinks her luck is in, that she's discovered a candidate for her whirlwind marriage. But after reputedly making millions from crime he says he's now penniless. Nine years of extravagance, fair-weather friends, a stock market crash, a paternity suit and a devastating gambling addiction have left the 38-year-old man nearly penniless. Now back in it, they're left penniless and sometimes homeless. A man meets a beautiful but penniless girl on a trip to Cuba. He also brought on board bankers who could help finance his schemes but things did not go well and he was soon penniless and having to borrow money. The penniless Pieret announced his intentions of stealing more art from the woefully guarded Louvre to make more money. Or it might make you overspend on cars and helicopters and lead you to early, penniless death. A GROUP of Irish backpackers have been left penniless after a fraudster cleared their bank accounts. A dollar and a quarter seems a small sum, but if you are absolutely penniless it might as well be a thousand. After several unsuccessful attempts, William was assassinated in 1584 and died penniless. She threatened to disinherit her son and leave him penniless. After Guzman's death, the flintily is penniless and starving in a fanatically intolerant country. With the exception of an annual income drawn from a trust established by his sons in 1844, Owen died penniless. She and Percy now found themselves penniless, and, to Mary's genuine surprise, her father refused to have anything to do with her. By 1828, he was penniless, and Covent Garden held a benefit concert for him. Maria pointed out to John that a penniless marriage would detract from any chances he had of making a career in painting. Show More Sentences He was penniless, and no relatives or friends had attended his bedside during his illness. Marie Duplessis arrived in Paris a penniless, unschooled young teenager. She plays Annie Quaintain, who tries to rebuild her life in a wild shantytown after she's left penniless and opens a boarding house for labourers who are building an aquaduct. Like Keats' other brother, they both died penniless and racked by tuberculosis, for which there was no effective treatment until the next century. However, just as he is about to go to college, Abel dies and Uncle James cheats him out of all the savings he had up to that point, leaving him penniless once again. Fisher, having entered the navy penniless and unknown, was delighted. The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 led to a massive influx of thousands of refugees, many of them penniless, that strained Kolkata's infrastructure. The penniless fantasist, who pleaded guilty to blackmail, came up with the scheme after reading about a similar plot against the Ecclestones that was foiled earlier this year. Examples from Classical Literature Bellaire, though penniless after the disaster of 1815, had managed in the five years to have accumulated much. Behold him, beneath the mass of stale and putrid slime, a castoff, friendless and penniless vagabond. We're sailoring men back from a cruise to Jamaica and pretty near penniless. Lady Louisa was the only sister of the marquess, a widow, proud and penniless. As she was penniless, the woman was forced to bring her child to this medicaster. He was unhired and unmarried, and was looking for some employment, as he was penniless. Next we were told that she was singing at a music hall and was almost penniless. Zapata remained there for study, and the two Jesuits pursued their journey to Rome in rags, and almost penniless. If I had only been penniless and had loved and married a man who had all his fighting to do yet! But she reportedly returned home penniless to Gondi village in Andhra Pradesh last Thursday. Tens of thousands of them milling about, homeless, penniless, jobless. What good mother is there that would not commiserate a penniless spinster, who might have been my lady, and have shared four thousand a year? While convicted killer Winston Silcott celebrates his pounds 50,000 compensation, PC Richard Coombes has been left nearly penniless. Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. He was literally alone, unfriended, penniless, in a strange country. And to this man she must present herself, late, penniless and unhelpful. When a handsome but penniless suitor proposes, her father believes he could only be after her vast estate and threatens disinheritance. What, then, is to become of the penniless, and the unpretty! His bride was not only penniless but deeply involved in debt. Lee died in 1952 at age 45, penniless and blacklisted, his name and contributions virtually obliterated from American culture. Show More Sentences Here is the gentleman wanting to get our child, without a shilling to bless himself with, and the poor girl refusing to marry the man of her heart, because she is penniless. Then he was but a penniless, monk-bred lad, unknown and unfriended. He came a cropper, and the girl was left an orphan and penniless. Find more words! 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