Vocabulary Word
Word: penury
Definition: extreme poverty; stinginess; ADJ. penurious: very poor; stingy
Definition: extreme poverty; stinginess; ADJ. penurious: very poor; stingy
Sentences Containing 'penury'
The poor man may retain honour, but not the vicious; poverty may cast a cloud over nobility, but cannot hide it altogether; and as virtue of itself sheds a certain light, even though it be through the straits and chinks of penury, it wins the esteem of lofty and noble spirits, and in consequence their protection.
Beauty by itself attracts the desires of all who behold it, and the royal eagles and birds of towering flight stoop on it as on a dainty lure; but if beauty be accompanied by want and penury, then the ravens and the kites and other birds of prey assail it, and she who stands firm against such attacks well deserves to be called the crown of her husband.
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