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penniless
1. After sleeping penniless on the roof of a YMCA with the pigeons, he finally earned some money fighting forest fires as a volunteer
2. He is either pulling my leg or a penniless Albanian; he is certainly not a literature master, I thought but suppressed that suspicion at once
3. Moses, straight out of the back country of Midian led a ragtag bunch of slaves, penniless, without home or country
4. but after his wife left him homeless and penniless he plummeted
5. Not saving means you retire penniless and with about five hundred pound's worth of useless junk
6. Over 65% of people remain poor throughout their entire lives; they retire penniless or in debt and they die broke and embarrassed
7. The young ladies there were charming but not flirtatious, at least not to us stranded penniless seafarers
8. A brief overview of the early apostles does not reveal a life of comfort and ease: many were killed and tortured; many were left penniless to survive on faith; many went through enormous trials and challenges
9. So what we can learn from this story? simply these: Maybe you have lost your job, maybe you are penniless, but don't loose your heart
10. Arrive in a country on weekends or after the banks closed and you could be penniless
11. By 1970, swarms of penniless youths, having heard tales of wondrous hospitality, were cadging their way around the southern Mediterranean and across the Middle East as far as India, deliberately bludging off the inhabitants whose hospitality soon curdled to hostility when they realised they were being used by the relatively wealthy youth of Europe who would return home boasting how they had stayed in someone’s house, been taken everywhere and treated like a prince – and it hadn’t cost them a penny! Just like the way world trade is skewed for the benefit of Europe and the U
12. ‘When we met, John was a penniless student so we used the one banking account, and have done so ever since
13. It was that most of the time they were penniless students, bereft of female company for that reason
14. The apostles all died without knowing that Matthew was their benefactor to such an extent that, when he went forth to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom after the beginning of the persecutions, he was practically penniless
15. He arrived in Sao Paulo penniless and hungry
16. I've been a mercenary captain, a corsair, akozak, a penniless vagabond, a general—hell, I've been everything except a king, and I may be that, before I die
17. 'I'll buy your ship—' began Conan, before he remembered that he was a penniless wanderer
18. Paul, who is penniless and without property, has nothing much to brag about in the bank, so Gerard leaves it alone
19. was torn between the two women, one who is penniless
20. When he was penniless, which was most of the time, he got people in the back of the market to give him the chicken heads that they were going to throw away and he would take them to Nigromanta to make her soups, fortified with purslane and seasoned with mint
21. died, nearly penniless, only a year after their mother’s death
22. when he became penniless and no one would extend a helping hand to
23. He was memoryless, penniless and homeless in the streets of a city
24. That got the noblemen and Ann Morton to smile in contentment: all of them were penniless after selling off all of their valuables
25. While not penniless, he was not exactly rich either
26. point, what was he doing shinnying up HER tree? What could he possibly want from a penniless
27. Primarily the stumbling block was the fear that others would “steal the idea” and the originators would remain penniless
28. When she thought of her vital energies that could not flow properly and she was even penniless now
29. Aristocracy Family would be penniless and poor
30. That was quite the armada to send out after a group of penniless refugees
31. The statement “down in the dust” refers to everyone that is penniless
32. The statement “cleaving to dust” refers to everyone that is penniless
33. If Love could save the rich, they'd be saved already; for who are more worshipped, idolized, loved than the rich? Yet, still they are rich and not penniless philanthropists spreading the gospel of love and sharing
34. Many times he remained penniless despite his previous wealth
35. misery of the penniless child before her
36. Skeffington, who had an extraordinary gift for growing richer, was a wonderful _parti_ for a penniless girl, she had always felt
37. Many devote themselves to philanthropic work whenever a prisoner is penniless
38. They also, though they themselves were chiefly unworldly persons who lost money rather than made it, instituted the most searching private inquiries into Wemyss's business affairs, hoping that he might be caught out as such a rascal or so penniless, or, preferably, both, that no woman could possibly have anything to do with him
39. ‘He would hardly have been penniless and destitute
40. He was penniless now, and Marie’s extended stay in Crete had financially ruined her too
41. I deserted Marie, and returned to Crete homeless and penniless
42. When eighteenyears of age he went penniless to Madrid, where he earneda precarious
43. He was only 17, clutched a torn suitcase, and was penniless
44. put $25,000 in the bank –not bad for someone who had recently been penniless
45. But she was penniless, so she went to live with her father-in-law
46. Andrew earned an awful lot of money and was continually penniless
47. This man, practically penniless, wandered around West Africa looking for an opportunity to earn some money
48. And it kept out the penniless and almost certainly sex-starved youths who came to stare and stare at the good-looking young women in bathing costumes and who would sometimes throw an obscenity at them for there was no hope of an exchange of civilities
49. The cop writing an expensive ticket to an unemployed person with no car insurance… the lawyer evicting a penniless family out into the street, with their wailing terrified children in total shock… the telemarketer making hundreds of intrusive phone calls an hour…are only: “doing their job”
50. He did not have to wait for his turn, for hours, like the dozens of penniless unfortunates, old men, women and children who were there to treat their malignant tumors
