penury

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• Or perhaps the plague of Strawberry Quick-flavored meth that was luring children into a life of addiction and penury.

• Relative obscurity and penury, her anthem claims, rule just as hard as the point-oh-oh-one percent realm of excess and access.

• Larry, it looks like traveling up the royal road you slashed through the forest of penury.

• But to herself Jess Morse thought: And it would mean the difference, for mother and me, between penury and independence!

• Notwithstanding her popularity and patronage, she died in France in great obscurity and penury.

• Hunger and penury had carved lines as easy to read in her face as the traces of asceticism and fear.

• Hundreds of families were burned out, and reduced from opulence, or at least competency, to penury.

• The towns of the old world have alternations of penury and affluence.