impecunious

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• So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
• Farmers had been a depressed class, paying uneconomic rents to impecunious landowners. IN LOVE AND WAR
• A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siècle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944. This Was Not Yvette
• 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.
• The stock market crash in the 1920s left him impecunious, however, and his attempt to make a mark as a painter came to little.
• And if I had been an impecunious younger son of the gentry, or a farmer struggling to survive an agricultural depression, or a soldier discharged from the army with little prospect of finding a good job, or a poorly paid artisan in a grimy and unsanitary city, I might well have decided to take the risk and opt for the bright, prosperous future and healthful climate that Poyais appeared to offer the adventurous. A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
• The minister who hardens his heart to a call, and waits for a certain congregation to offer him say five hundred a year more, often finds himself scabbed upon by another and more impecunious minister; and the next time it is his turn to scab while a brother minister is hardening his heart to a call. THE SCAB
• She liked him the better for a rugged independence, which in the days of his impecuniousness her brother The Adventures of Sally
• When it adopted her point of view, you saw the shame and impecuniousness behind the cover-girl mask.
• Last chance---a spinster, impecunious, and without connections. A RAKE'S VOW