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  • "You ought not to send your things to me, Mother. We have plenty to eat out there. You can make much better use of them here." How destitute she lies there in her bed,   (source)
  • Hatsuyo Nakamura, weak and destitute, began a courageous struggle, which would last for many years, to keep her children and herself alive.   (source)
    destitute = extremely poor; or lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
  • He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had had the heart to desert her he could have done so only by deceiving two kindly people who had pitied him.   (source)
    destitute = lacking the necessities of life such as food and shelter
  • "At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time."   (source)
    destitute = extremely poor
  • The family was now destitute; there was no money to send Anna to her fiancé, to the marriage she had given up.†   (source)
  • And she was not destitute.†   (source)
  • Long captivated by the writing of Leo Tolstoy, McCandless particularly admired how the great novelist had forsaken a life of wealth and privilege to wander among the destitute.†   (source)
  • While reality permits some degree of cynicism, the fact that hillbillies like me are more down about the future than many other groups—some of whom are clearly more destitute than we are—suggests that something else is going on.†   (source)
  • For several years, he and Paul's mother had been involved in caring for orphans and destitute girls.†   (source)
  • They told of good people who refused to take any money for helping strangers, even though they themselves were poor and near destitute.†   (source)
  • We weren't destitute.†   (source)
  • Not illegal, not murderer, not widowed, raped, destitute, fearful.†   (source)
  • You have the chance to save a child from destitution, poverty, and I believe Mrs. Scatcherd would agree that it is not too great an exaggeration to add sin and depravity.†   (source)
  • On Earth she had been a social worker for the homeless and destitute.†   (source)
  • Later, I wondered: did I look that destitute, that the doormen had taken up a collection for me?†   (source)
  • The Fowls were not left destitute, far from it.†   (source)
  • For a start, he was obviously more destitute.†   (source)
  • Holmes even wanted Ned to buy life insurance, for surely once his marital strife subsided, he would want to protect Julia and Pearl from destitution in the event of his death.†   (source)
  • Dickens caricatures this Malthusianthinking in Scrooge's insistence that he wants nothing to do with the destitute and that if they would rather starve than live in the poorhouse or in debtors' prison, then, by golly, "they had best hurry up and do it and decrease the excess population."†   (source)
  • She had no family—maybe she was even destitute now.†   (source)
  • The people on the sidewalks appear prosperous enough for the most part, without the hordes of destitute beggars, the swarms of rickety, dirty children, and the platoons of draggled or showy prostitutes that disfigure so many European cities; yet such is his perversity that he would rather be in London or Paris.†   (source)
  • I fought off the momentary pang at being utterly destitute again and ran a quick mental inventory of what I had in my travelsack.†   (source)
  • Every patient had to pay the eighty cents, except for women and children, the destitute, and anyone who was seriously ill.†   (source)
  • Even the guide who stood proudly had a destitute look about him.†   (source)
  • The government sought to mandate military service for the men—and to send them, in effect, back into the south or into the Nuba Mountains to continue the campaign of terror that had led these very people to arrive destitute in Khartoum to begin with.†   (source)
  • The mothers in Israel attacked the more serious problems of orphanages, winter's supplies of coal, and clothing for the destitute.†   (source)
  • In the present case he had found two destitute travelers and a herd of recently stolen horses.†   (source)
  • Destitute and starving, the young man finally decided to return home, hoping for forgiveness from his father but expecting anger.†   (source)
  • He would have stayed on happily in the CCC, swinging an ax and hauling concrete under the great American sun, but the government denied his application for an extension: His father had by then found work a couple of days a week, and the family was no longer technically destitute.†   (source)
  • In the northern provinces, the collapse of the nitrate fields had left thousands of workers destitute.†   (source)
  • He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.†   (source)
  • Bishop Long's comfortable house in Mitchellville, Maryland; his Cadillacs; his finely cut suits; some nearly destitute members of his flock giving their last dime— these drew a few nasty TV broadcasts a few years back, full of unholy cliches.†   (source)
  • The feeling was what destitute must feel like.†   (source)
  • General Heath would later write of seeing Lee's troops pass through Peekskill, many "so destitute of shoes that the blood left on the frozen ground, in many places, marked the route they had taken."†   (source)
  • Those were the good times, followed by bad times and bad health, which led to worse times-in truth, destitute times.†   (source)
  • "And I can tell you that by then I felt myself lucky to be paid at all," he added, for he had had colleagues driven destitute by lordly defaulters.†   (source)
  • The destitute were everywhere, spread out on the benches in the Parque Central, asleep on yesterday's newspapers.†   (source)
  • His mother and grandmother were destitute, and my father offered to take him aboard the Portia Sue as an oyster culler.†   (source)
  • When the masses are destitute and yet there are goods available, it's idiotic to expect people to be stopped by some scrap of paper called a property deed.†   (source)
  • It was a cruel period for the aspiring swordsman, especially if he was young and destitute.†   (source)
  • Debt-ridden from timber speculation and uninsured out of respect for God, he left his family destitute.†   (source)
  • There was a report that they had driven through the bush for days on the back of a truck and had turned up panic-stricken and destitute at the border town of Kisoro.†   (source)
  • Since their father's death their mother had lived in constant fear of destitution.†   (source)
  • Are there not enough destitute in this city without the whole of India flocking in?†   (source)
  • How does a student who came to us destitute come by such money?†   (source)
  • A public pregnancy without marriage meant disgrace and destitution.†   (source)
  • If he was destitute, he had no one nearby who could help.†   (source)
  • Ti Jean gives portions of his own salary to destitute patients.†   (source)
  • It teems with violence, prostitutes, and destitute migrants.†   (source)
  • I charge a lot for prisoners, pows, and the destitute sick.†   (source)
  • There are many ways in which poverty finds its way into the bodies of the destitute.†   (source)
  • With Carlos I'm a caged animal, but without him I'm a near-destitute aging courtesan.†   (source)
  • Might you have become destitute, Brahman, so that you seek to serve?†   (source)
  • If you're coming from the Samanas, how could you be anything but destitute?†   (source)
  • "No," said Siddhartha, "I have not become destitute and have never been destitute.†   (source)
  • But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute.†   (source)
  • DESTITUTE OF SHELTER, FOOD OR CLOTHING.†   (source)
  • I vowed to myself that, even if I went home and all the money ran out and my family was absolutely destitute, I would never sell these or give them away, or the bracelet he'd gotten me in New Asia.†   (source)
  • Some of them are filthy and insane, some are junkies or merely destitute, and still others are defending turf and trolling for trouble.†   (source)
  • WHAT BASENESS ARE OUR ENEMIES NOT CAPABLE OF, WHO WOD WISH TO BE CONNECTED WITH A PEOPLE SO DESTITUTE OF EVERY VERTUE, GOD FORBID IT SHOD EVER BE THE FATE OF AMERICA.†   (source)
  • The son discovered that Carmine's birth mother, a new arrival from Italy, died in childbirth, and his destitute father gave him up.†   (source)
  • The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society, a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.†   (source)
  • I'm not destitute.†   (source)
  • But I wonder how things might have been different if my father was part of a family business that gave him structure and a steady paycheck instead of working in a bar, the worst place for a man like him—or if my mother had been surrounded by women, sisters and nieces, perhaps, who could have provided relief from destitution and loneliness, a refuge from strangers.†   (source)
  • In Farmer's conception, the facilities should provide services to the destitute for free, and those services should meet the real needs of the place and of individual patients.†   (source)
  • What happens when the destitute in Guatemala, El Salvador, Haiti, wherever, are moved by a rereading of the Gospels to stand up for what is theirs, to reclaim what was theirs and was taken away, to ask only that they enjoy decent poverty rather than the misery we see here every day in Haiti?†   (source)
  • Susanna Adams flew into a rage over the fact that Deacon John, in answer to his own conscience and feelings of responsibility as selectman, had brought a destitute young woman to live in the crowded household, the town having no means to provide for her.†   (source)
  • The staff had lists of the poorest people in the area, and it wasn't hard for Deo to spot the others who were truly destitute, as he circulated among the crowds that gathered outside the clinic every morning.†   (source)
  • As a result, the family was destitute, and Michael, as eldest, had to be sent from his home into a situation where he could be provided for.†   (source)
  • But it is true Republicanism that drive the slaves half fed, and destitute of clothing …. whilst an owner walks about idle, though one slave is all the property he can boast.†   (source)
  • He is plagued by dreams of that milk-truck accident years ago and fears we'll be left destitute unless Javier learns to manage the family's money.†   (source)
  • I had been so caught up in Sophie's story that I had utterly lost sight of the unshakable fact that I was nearly destitute as a result of yesterday's robbery.†   (source)
  • At times they were destitute through his fault, and in order not to leave him alone at such moments she would give up her own job at the post office, where her work was so highly thought of that she was always taken back after her enforced absence.†   (source)
  • I go to her without even a cooking vessel, like any beggar off the streets; and straightaway I determined to spend one or two of the coins I felt digging into my flesh at the nearest bazaar, for I would not go to her destitute.†   (source)
  • The next afternoon, returning from lunch at a delicatessen on Ocean Avenue, I found on my desk his check made out to me for that sum which in 1947, to a person in my state of virtual destitution, can only be described as, well, imperial.†   (source)
  • I perspired in the humid cocoon of my angst, worrying about my theft and my present near-destitution, worrying about my novel and how I would ever get it finished, worrying whether or not I should press charges against Morris Fink.†   (source)
  • Although spared in those confines most of the brutality and destitution which was the lot of the common inmate throughout the rest of the camp, there had been constant noise and no privacy, and she had suffered most from an almost continual lack of sleep.†   (source)
  • It is said that I have destroyed the home of the destitute.†   (source)
  • How strange that I should be called a destitute woman!†   (source)
  • It is forgotten that but for me the destitute could not have had this particular home.†   (source)
  • " "You ain't destitute?"†   (source)
  • And we look after the wives and families of some of the wounded who are destitute—yes, worse than destitute.†   (source)
  • A new settlement in the Conejos valley had lately been raided by Indians; many of the inhabitants were killed, and the survivors, who were originally from Mora, had managed to get back there, utterly destitute.†   (source)
  • We know of oppression and torture, We know of extortion and violence, Destitution, disease, The old without fire in winter, The child without milk in summer, Our labour taken away from us, Our sins made heavier upon us.†   (source)
  • A year after the bomb was dropped, Miss Sasaki was a cripple; Mrs Nakamura was destitute; Father Kleinsorge was back in the hospital; Dr Sasaki was not capable of the work he once could do; Dr Fujii had lost the thirty-room hospital it took him many years to acquire, and had no prospects of rebuilding it; Mr Tanimoto's church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality, The lives of these Six people, who were among the luckiest in Hiroshima, would never be the same,…†   (source)
  • They've been practically destitute.†   (source)
  • Then, if I sent the money through the mail to Mr. Wilkes without his knowing who sent it, would you see that it was used to buy the mills and not—well, given away to destitute ex-Confederates?†   (source)
  • "I am lonely, destitute, and houseless—that's what I am!†   (source)
  • The corpse of his mad self-love uprose from rags and destitution as from the dark horrors of a tomb.†   (source)
  • Poor Tuvache! and he is even completely destitute of what is called the genius of art.†   (source)
  • Despite this destitution, the soldiers and officers went on living just as usual.†   (source)
  • From that hour, she acquired an influence over the mind of the destitute child that she never lost.†   (source)
  • Besides, in our state of destitution and famine we were not likely to be particular.†   (source)
  • What the destitute subject of such an offer tried to say, I need not repeat.†   (source)
  • 'I am sixty years old, too,' replied Ralph, 'and am neither destitute nor helpless.†   (source)
  • Why, when I found myself utterly destitute, I thought my old friends would, perhaps, assist me.†   (source)
  • I felt more miserable and destitute than I had done at any period of my running away.†   (source)
  • If they were destitute of this right, they would not be sovereign.†   (source)
  • How could you do otherwise, being totally destitute of the sympathies with which he overflows!†   (source)
  • He had endured everything in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts.†   (source)
  • What could my darling do, I asked, left destitute and penniless?†   (source)
  • Clifford, ordinarily so destitute of this faculty, had found it in the tension of the crisis.†   (source)
  • And so the destitute wanderer had stayed with her ever since.†   (source)
  • The black is destitute of all these advantages, but he subsists without them because he is a slave.†   (source)
  • To this neighbourhood, then, I came, quite destitute.†   (source)
  • From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution.†   (source)
  • I could hardly tell how men and women in extremities of destitution proceeded.†   (source)
  • He gave thanks for our food and comfort, and prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.†   (source)
  • That little second engineer of the Patna had turned up in a more or less destitute state, and got a temporary job of looking after the machinery of the mill.†   (source)
  • But now, at the actual crisis, this difference seemed to throw the weight of destitution on Bertha's side, since at least he had her to suffer for, and she had only herself.†   (source)
  • …good far nothing; but there are also men who are there because they are strongminded enough to disregard the social convention (obviously not a disinterested one on the part of the ratepayer) which bids a man live by heavy and badly paid drudgery when he has the alternative of walking into the workhouse, announcing himself as a destitute person, and legally compelling the Guardians to feed, clothe and house him better than he could feed, clothe and house himself without great exertion.†   (source)
  • You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, such an offer seemed almost too good to be true.†   (source)
  • But it was not likely that he had reference to the kind of anguish that comes with destitution, that is so endlessly bitter and cruel, and yet so sordid and petty, so ugly, so humiliating—unredeemed by the slightest touch of dignity or even of pathos.†   (source)
  • …to sleep, and when I awoke at midnight, not knowing where I was, I could not be sure at first who I was; I had only the most rudimentary sense of existence, such as may lurk and flicker in the depths of an animal's consciousness; I was more destitute of human qualities than the cave-dweller; but then the memory, not yet of the place in which I was, but of various other places where I had lived, and might now very possibly be, would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up…†   (source)
  • The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wanderings.†   (source)
  • She had a sense of deeper empoverishment—of an inner destitution compared to which outward conditions dwindled into insignificance.†   (source)
  • This greatness of spirit in a man who was quite destitute struck even Porthos; and this French generosity, repeated by Lord de Winter and his friend, was highly applauded, except by MM.†   (source)
  • You are very kind, I am sure; and I wish with all my heart it may prove so, for else they will be destitute enough.†   (source)
  • She and her mother earned a precarious living; they had been very destitute since the death of the minstrel; their embroidery did not bring them in more than six farthings a week, which does not amount to quite two eagle liards.†   (source)
  • And now he has sunk into terrible destitution, with his family—an unhappy family of sick children, and, I believe, an insane wife.†   (source)
  • He played on with spirit, and in half an hour had earned in pence what was a small fortune to a destitute man.†   (source)
  • He had presented himself hitherto as a person destitute of the faculty of compromise, who would take what he had asked for or take nothing.†   (source)
  • A decayed widow, whose husband was Judge Pyncheon's early friend, has laid her case of destitution before him, in a very moving letter.†   (source)
  • I acknowledged no natural claim on Adele's part to be supported by me, nor do I now acknowledge any, for I am not her father; but hearing that she was quite destitute, I e'en took the poor thing out of the slime and mud of Paris, and transplanted it here, to grow up clean in the wholesome soil of an English country garden.†   (source)
  • Rivers abound, it is true; but this region is nearly destitute of brooks and the smaller water courses, which tend so much to comfort and fertility.†   (source)
  • He uttered his ideas as if, odd as they often appeared, he were used to them and had lived with them; old polished knobs and heads and handles, of precious substance, that could be fitted if necessary to new walking-sticks—not switches plucked in destitution from the common tree and then too elegantly waved about.†   (source)
  • Bad as all slaveholders are, we seldom meet one destitute of every element of character commanding respect.†   (source)
  • It seemed quite destitute of any intelligence, so that I was able to kill it with a single blow from my stick.†   (source)
  • All they did was needed, for the destitution of the freedmen was often reported as "too appalling for belief," and the situation was daily growing worse rather than better.†   (source)
  • However, Mr. Heathcliff has claimed and kept them in his wife's right and his also: I suppose legally; at any rate, Catherine, destitute of cash and friends, cannot disturb his possession.†   (source)
  • If Gyp had had a tail he would doubtless have wagged it, but being destitute of that vehicle for his emotions, he was like many other worthy personages, destined to appear more phlegmatic than nature had made him.†   (source)
  • I repeat that the most ignorant and the most destitute of these peasants was a thousand fold better off than the most pampered American slave.†   (source)
  • In his expressed opinions of all performances in the Art of painting that were completely destitute of merit, Gowan was the most liberal fellow on earth.†   (source)
  • Make her share her own destitution!†   (source)
  • Hundreds, thousands perhaps, might be set on the right path; dozens of families saved from destitution, from ruin, from vice, from the Lock hospitals—and all with her money.†   (source)
  • In summer, these plains are quite destitute of water, and nothing is to be seen on them but herds of buffaloes and wild horses.†   (source)
  • Remember, again, that poverty is extinct, and that the Fourierist phalangsteries and all their kind, as was but natural at the time, implied nothing but a refuge from mere destitution.†   (source)
  • And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.†   (source)
  • In the country he was a magistrate, and an active visitor and speaker among those destitute of religious instruction.†   (source)
  • The answers of Hovey were coarse and illiterate, though they manifested a sufficient desire to obtain the hand of a woman of singular personal attractions, and whose great error he was willing to overlook for the advantage of possessing one every way so much his superior, and who it also appeared was not altogether destitute of money.†   (source)
  • The fading grey light fell dimly on the walls decorated with guns, whips, and foxes' brushes, on coats and hats flung on the chairs, on tankards sending forth a scent of flat ale, and on a half-choked fire, with pipes propped up in the chimney-corners: signs of a domestic life destitute of any hallowing charm, with which the look of gloomy vexation on Godfrey's blond face was in sad accordance.†   (source)
  • He appeared to be destitute alike of the ambition which urged, and of the passionate energy of mind which enabled me to excel.†   (source)
  • My kinsman, Richard Jones, has received an appointment that will, in future, deprive me of his assistance, and leave me, just now, destitute of one who might greatly aid me with his pen.†   (source)
  • I don't know where to go, if it isn't to one o' your aunts; and I hardly durst," said poor Mrs. Tulliver, quite destitute of mental resources in this extremity.†   (source)
  • The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities.†   (source)
  • Being destitute, he has a claim on me.†   (source)
  • Home now looked bare and dismal as she thought of it, work grew harder than ever, and she felt that she was a very destitute and much-injured girl, in spite of the new gloves and silk stockings.†   (source)
  • As he was destitute of any other means of defense, his safety now depended entirely on bodily strength and resolution.†   (source)
  • I wish to soothe him, yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?†   (source)
  • His writings, to do them justice, are not altogether destitute of fancy and originality; they might have won him greater reputation but for an inveterate love of allegory, which is apt to invest his plots and characters with the aspect of scenery and people in the clouds, and to steal away the human warmth out of his conceptions.†   (source)
  • Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be…†   (source)
  • …in the morning, having been found at the Hospital by the banker's messenger; and for the first time he was returning to his home without the vision of any expedient in the background which left him a hope of raising money enough to deliver him from the coming destitution of everything which made his married life tolerable—everything which saved him and Rosamond from that bare isolation in which they would be forced to recognize how little of a comfort they could be to each other.†   (source)
  • And it is much to be deplored that the place to which you devote so considerable a portion of the whole term of your natural life, should be so sadly destitute of anything approaching to a cosy inhabitiveness, or adapted to breed a comfortable localness of feeling, such as pertains to a bed, a hammock, a hearse, a sentry box, a pulpit, a coach, or any other of those small and snug contrivances in which men temporarily isolate themselves.†   (source)
  • They must have powerful motives for a secret residence, or be reduced to a destitute condition indeed, who seek a refuge in Jacob's Island.†   (source)
  • The destitute orange-girl, the neglected washerwoman, the distressed muffin-man find in her a fast and generous friend.†   (source)
  • He now spoke of the wives and children of the slain; their destitution; their misery, both physical and moral; their distance; and, at last, of their unavenged wrongs.†   (source)
  • It tells how they was stoned and sawn asunder, and wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, and was destitute, afflicted, tormented.†   (source)
  • The spiritual seed which had been scattered over Mr. Tulliver had apparently been destitute of any corresponding provision, and had slipped off to the winds again, from a total absence of hooks.†   (source)
  • As wealth is subdivided and knowledge diffused, no one is entirely destitute of education or of property; the privileges and disqualifications of caste being abolished, and men having shattered the bonds which held them fixed, the notion of advancement suggests itself to every mind, the desire to rise swells in every heart, and all men want to mount above their station: ambition is the universal feeling.†   (source)
  • I only said a word to her in passing yesterday of the possibility of her obtaining a year's salary as a destitute widow of a government clerk.†   (source)
  • "Well, that tends to confirm my own ideas," said Franz, "that the countess's suspicions were destitute alike of sense and reason.†   (source)
  • Then a family of six or seven boys sprung up like mushrooms, and flourished surprisingly, poor boys as well as rich, for Mr. Laurence was continually finding some touching case of destitution, and begging the Bhaers to take pity on the child, and he would gladly pay a trifle for its support.†   (source)
  • Abiram issued from his place of concealment, trembling, it is true, but far from destitute of hopes, as to his final success in appeasing the just resentment of his kinsman.†   (source)
  • This man, whom you now see destitute of even the ordinary comfort of a cabin, in which to shelter his head, was once the owner of great riches—and, Judge Temple, he was the rightful proprietor of this very soil on which we stand.†   (source)
  • Now in her faintness of heart at the length and difficulty of her journey, she was most of all afraid of spending her money, and becoming so destitute that she would have to ask people's charity; for Hettv had the pride not only of a proud nature but of a proud class—the class that pays the most poor-rates, and most shudders at the idea of profiting by a poor-rate.†   (source)
  • Then, in the privacy of my own little cabin, she informed me that Ham and Em'ly were an orphan nephew and niece, whom my host had at different times adopted in their childhood, when they were left destitute: and that Mrs. Gummidge was the widow of his partner in a boat, who had died very poor.†   (source)
  • I then provided myself with matches, dry tinder, knives, cord, and other portable articles, trusting that, should the vessel go to pieces before daylight, we might gain the shore, not wholly destitute.†   (source)
  • He tried at parting to give his hand in frankness to the existing Flora—not the vanished Flora, or the mermaid—but Flora wouldn't have it, couldn't have it, was wholly destitute of the power of separating herself and him from their bygone characters.†   (source)
  • The Secretary of War could issue rations, clothing, and fuel to the destitute, and all abandoned property was placed in the hands of the Bureau for eventual lease and sale to ex-slaves in forty-acre parcels.†   (source)
  • We can go to the Workhouse, or the Refuge for the Destitute, or the Magdalen Hospital, I dare say; and the sooner we go the better.'†   (source)
  • Can you tell me if what you encountered was of the species, ursus horribilis—with the ears, rounded—front, arquated—eyes—destitute of the remarkable supplemental lid—with six incisores, one false, and four perfect molares—†   (source)
  • She did pity the Davis girls, who were awkward, plain, and destitute of escort, except a grim papa and three grimmer maiden aunts, and she bowed to them in her friendliest manner as she passed, which was good of her, as it permitted them to see her dress, and burn with curiosity to know who her distinguished-looking friend might be.†   (source)
  • The man who had addressed Haley, and who seemed not destitute of compassion, bought her for a trifle, and the spectators began to disperse.†   (source)
  • They were to hasten to their fields of work; seek gradually to close relief establishments, and make the destitute self-supporting; act as courts of law where there were no courts, or where Negroes were not recognized in them as free; establish the institution of marriage among ex-slaves, and keep records; see that freedmen were free to choose their employers, and help in making fair contracts for them; and finally, the circular said: "Simple good faith, for which we hope on all hands…†   (source)
  • But she believed that her brother's schemes were as destitute of actual substance and purpose as a child's pictures of its future life, while sitting in a little chair by its mother's knee.†   (source)
  • You see, I, who never did a bad action but that I have told you of—am in destitution, with my poor wife dying of fever before my very eyes, and I unable to do anything in the world for her; I shall die of hunger, as old Dantes did, while Fernand and Danglars are rolling in wealth.†   (source)
  • Their appearance was not calculated to attract the importunate regards of such of London's destitute population, as chanced to take their way over the bridge that night in search of some cold arch or doorless hovel wherein to lay their heads; they stood there in silence: neither speaking nor spoken to, by any one who passed.†   (source)
  • I invite you for the benefit of your destitute relative, I present you with my donation of ten roubles and you, on the spot, repay me for all that with such an action.†   (source)
  • Finally, she left the house and ran away from Fyodor Pavlovitch with a destitute divinity student, leaving Mitya, a child of three years old, in her husband's hands.†   (source)
  • It has already been stated that the upper half of the island was a naked rock, and destitute of any other defenses than a few scattered logs of driftwood.†   (source)
  • No better materials to feed the fire could be found, had there been a communication with the flames; but the ground was destitute of the brush that led the destructive element, like a torrent, over the remainder of the hill.†   (source)
  • He seemed to wait for some reply, but Ralph giving him none, he continued: 'I am a most miserable and wretched outcast, nearly sixty years old, and as destitute and helpless as a child of six.'†   (source)
  • At length I was moving quietly towards the door, with the intention of saying that perhaps I should consult his feelings best by withdrawing: when he said, with his hands in his coat pockets, into which it was as much as he could do to get them; and with what I should call, upon the whole, a decidedly pious air: 'You are probably aware, Mr. Copperfield, that I am not altogether destitute of worldly possessions, and that my daughter is my nearest and dearest relative?'†   (source)
  • Living in the freedom of the woods, the North American Indian was destitute, but he had no feeling of inferiority towards anyone; as soon, however, as he desires to penetrate into the social scale of the whites, he takes the lowest rank in society, for he enters, ignorant and poor, within the pale of science and wealth.†   (source)
  • The head is wonderfully elongated and very narrow; it is destitute of teeth, and the tongue resembles somewhat a large great red earth-worm.†   (source)
  • His face appeared to me to be quite destitute of colour, and now that I saw him without his seeing me, I fully saw, for the first time, how worn away he was.†   (source)
  • He looked into several; they were mere rude shells, destitute of any species of furniture, except a heap of straw, foul with dirt, spread confusedly over the floor, which was merely the bare ground, trodden hard by the tramping of innumerable feet.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER III The fact was that up to the last moment he had never expected such an ending; he had been overbearing to the last degree, never dreaming that two destitute and defenceless women could escape from his control.†   (source)
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