penniless znaczenie & definicja

Przykłady penniless

• The fact that he was penniless by the turn of the sixties is virtually a postscript on the final page of the text.

• But they also benefited because the penniless and hung-over shepherds returned for another year of interminably monotonous shepherding.

• These last included corporal punishment, for fines were of no effect on penniless spinners and weavers.

• Criss notes that foreign-relief agencies supplemented the badly organized and penniless municipal organizations.

• Many had arrived penniless and had rapidly thrown themselves into work to support themselves and their families.

• He is released after a two-year prison sentence, a widowed, penniless old man.

• Jaquinet's own self-deception in becoming enamored with an ambitious but penniless young man.

• Eyre is a quick-thinking confidence man who, while still a penniless apprentice, manages to trick the master of a foreign ship into selling him his whole cargo on credit.