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  • I spent hours in conversation with all sorts of people, from struggling mothers to impoverished children who sniffed glue to help them cope with hunger and police brutality.†   (source)
  • "I don't know if I can manage that, but I am making a sincere effort to look impoverished.†   (source)
  • I walk over and pick it up, afraid the light will fade the paper jacket, the black-and-white photo of the humble, impoverished family on the cover.†   (source)
  • Fortune presents her a second chance in the form of an impoverished doctor—in fact, a prince in disguise who has elected to work among the needy.†   (source)
  • All together you are poor, rude, immoral, unintelligent, impoverished, bitter, stubborn, and a blight upon your village and my kingdom.†   (source)
  • Each time he was captivated by the absurd, tragic, yet oddly inspiring story of Akaky Akakyevich, the impoverished main character who spends his life meekly copying documents written by others and suffering the ridicule of absolutely everyone.†   (source)
  • Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.†   (source)
  • Ser Lyn was a different sort of folly; lean and handsome, heir to an ancient but impoverished house, but vain, reckless, hot-tempered … and, it was whispered, notoriously uninterested in the intimate charms of women.†   (source)
  • Which is exactly the sort of thing you need to know if you're an impoverished hitchhiker trying to see the marvels of the Universe for less than thirty Altairian dollars a day.†   (source)
  • After that the British shouldn't remain in Holland: they should offer their most abject apologies to all the occupied countries, restore the Dutch East Indies to its rightful owner and then return, weakened and impoverished, to England.†   (source)
  • While grappling with the issue, Ne ministers came up with a solution that seemed to hold the dual promise of limiting the crowds while increasing the flow of hard currency into the impoverished national coffers: raise the fee for climbing permits.†   (source)
  • The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.†   (source)
  • There were at least a dozen black football players from impoverished backgrounds auditioning for the role of Eliza Doolittle.†   (source)
  • Chicago's small but vocal censorians feared that impoverished parents would turn the building into a depository for unwanted children.†   (source)
  • There was a theory afoot at that time, left over from the Puritanism of the previous two centuries and promulgated most forcefully by the British social thinker Thomas Malthus, that in helping the poor or in increasing food production to feed more people we would in fact encourage an increase in the number of the impoverished, who would, among other things, simply procreate faster to take advantage of all that surplus gruel.†   (source)
  • They are the ultimate in disposable workers: illegal, illiterate, impoverished, untrained.†   (source)
  • His clothes became increasingly impoverished - his frame thinner; a hunted look appeared in his eyes, and on his last visits, he would spend long periods staring into space, oblivious of his lordship's presence or, sometimes, even of having been addressed.†   (source)
  • She traded her family name and connections for a heap of coin fresh from the mint, and she is more than willing to arrange something of the sort for him: the horse-trading that's becoming increasingly common between impoverished European aristocrats and upstart American millionaires is not unknown, on a much smaller scale, in Loomisville, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Now that I was living an impoverished life myself, I could see that traveling to some far-off city for any reason at all was out of the question.†   (source)
  • And here, in one of the most impoverished, diseased, eroded, and famished regions of Haiti, there was this lovely walled citadel, Zanmi Lasante.†   (source)
  • The dangers of life in an impoverished city overcrowded with refugees were emphasized again one day when I was visiting Ellen.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, Feltz believed, two groups of people would pay the price for this collective failure: the refugees themselves, and the residents of Clarkston, a small town with few resources and no expertise in handling the cultural assimilation of a group of traumatized and impoverished East African farmers into the American South.†   (source)
  • "His father's money must have run out, and he decided he'd rather be a wealthy traitor than an impoverished apprentice.†   (source)
  • Here, in the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar, near the Nepalese border, there's not much else available commercially--except sex.†   (source)
  • "Every one of them would have a story," recalls Mosbacher, who wound up at the track after running away from an impoverished home.†   (source)
  • And in impoverished areas where people wanted to forget about their reality because it was so bad, drug dealers had easy prey.†   (source)
  • We had survived through generations of dark and impoverished living because of this one strength, because of the unconditional love and unselfish care of each other within our family unit.†   (source)
  • Soon, anything his mother bought him ended up in pieces on the concrete floor of their unfinished home in an impoverished neighborhood near the U.S. border.†   (source)
  • They were impoverished.†   (source)
  • She included her in the Friday sessions and raised her in the greatest intimacy with spirits, with the members of secret societies, and with the impoverished artists whose patroness she was.†   (source)
  • In summer, walking any street in the Shaw neighborhood, on the impoverished fringe of Northwest Washington, is to weave by kitchen chairs tucked into the narrow shadow of buildings.†   (source)
  • Greene, with his love of literature and political philosophy, had taken a great liking to the brilliant Paine, an impoverished English immigrant, who, like Greene, had been raised a Quaker, and whose pamphlet, Common Sense, since its appearance early in the year, had become more widely read than anything yet published in America.†   (source)
  • Thirty-three years ago a passably attractive young woman of average wealth had married an extremely tall, gangling, brilliant but impoverished law school graduate whose anxiety and eagerness to please had turned off the major firms in those days of the cool, restrained late fifties.†   (source)
  • I left Mance and the referees and joined my teammates, who had encircled Coach Byrum, listening to him exhort us to win in an endless string of cliches that made up the impoverished language of sport.†   (source)
  • And the service of which he spoke could only have been rendered by a corps of ex-cardinals and impoverished noblemen, not by the few oversexed macaques her father caught, day in and day out, peeping through the keyholes.†   (source)
  • Some States would be impoverished and oppressed while citizens of others would scarcely notice their small tax burden.†   (source)
  • He had, moments before, been among an army of impoverished Malaysian laborers seeming to be squatting in an unfinished building and now he was two floors up and in the most sophisticated dwelling possible.†   (source)
  • He was broken, harassed, and impoverished because of this.†   (source)
  • He in growing fear, she inher mid-thirties, impoverished, widowed with small children, both were using the mails to shelter them against loneliness.†   (source)
  • He says that the genetic impoverishment of distant generations through lack of radiation is something most people are simply incapable of worrying about.†   (source)
  • The panic of 1873 had engulfed the nation into the most terrible depression it had ever suffered, and the already impoverished states of the South were particularly hard hit.†   (source)
  • Yet most Africans, even in this group, are impoverished by low incomes and high cost of living.†   (source)
  • Better, he thought, to be in Burundi, if Burundi were at peace, than to live on the wrong, impoverished planet in New York.   (source)
    impoverished = poor
  • They made their way to his impoverished lodging on Kempf Strasse and showed him the produce.†   (source)
  • Impoverished peasant families had nowhere to go but Cange.†   (source)
  • Most of the patients in Carabayllo would be impoverished.†   (source)
  • Nor were uprisings among the impoverished majority.†   (source)
  • No one else, not at this time, is treating impoverished Haitians with the new antiretroviral drugs.†   (source)
  • He spoke about Pakistan's impoverished public schools.†   (source)
  • They found that these impoverished families spent 4.†   (source)
  • When I die impoverished, my wives and concubines will curse you, Onion Lord.†   (source)
  • To Karla, it was like stepping back into a lawless, impoverished time.†   (source)
  • The madrassa system targeted the impoverished students the public system failed.†   (source)
  • Louis Borgenicht, for example, left the impoverished home of his parents at age twelve to work as a salesclerk in a general store in the Polish town of Brzesko.†   (source)
  • Savannah emerged from the war impoverished, but it recovered within a few years and prospered once again.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the recruiting efforts of the American meatpacking industry now target some of the most impoverished and most vulnerable groups in the Western Hemisphere.†   (source)
  • The man who railed about the plight of impoverished women everywhere would in private, poking fun, employ terms like "chicks."†   (source)
  • Some prominent voices, some in the U.S. government, still argued that AIDS could not be treated in desperately impoverished places.†   (source)
  • "Oh, sure," one nurse had replied, and had proceeded to introduce him to an impoverished woman from Carabayllo named Señora Brigida.†   (source)
  • Look through it and you'd begin to see all the world's impoverished in their billions and the many linked causes of their misery.†   (source)
  • Various leaders in Carabayllo asked Socios to build a pharmacy, which would dispense free medicine to the most impoverished people in the slum.†   (source)
  • Virchow found a region impoverished by absentee landlordism, where the people, mainly Polish, lived principally on potatoes and vodka and suffered from endemic malaria and dysentery.†   (source)
  • To many people in public health, such an array of projects would have seemed ambitious enough, indeed too much to hope for in a place as impoverished as Cange.†   (source)
  • If they tried to do too much and projects faltered, there would be no end of people pointing out the failures, saying they'd shown that mdr and AIDS could not be treated in impoverished settings.†   (source)
  • He and his wife had also helped to build schools and to organize community councils and women's groups and programs for adult literacy in several small, impoverished towns in the region.†   (source)
  • He described giving antibiotics to an impoverished tb patient, then wrote: "When she received them, she soon began to respond—almost as if she had a treatable infectious disease."†   (source)
  • The aim of that trip was to persuade pih's tiny Mexican outpost to expand their public health efforts in the troubled, impoverished villages of Chiapas—an effort which, if successful, would oblige Farmer and Ophelia and Jim to do more fund-raising.†   (source)
  • Other small AIDS-treatment and -prevention programs were under way in poor countries, but Zanmi Lasante's was the only one in an impoverished rural area that chose its patients solely on medical grounds and not on their ability to pay, the only one that provided expert care and treatment for free.†   (source)
  • The Marxists Farmer had read, and many of the intellectuals he knew, disdained religion, and it was true that some versions of Christianity, and more than a few missionaries, invited impoverished Haitians into what Père Lafontant called "the cult of resignation," into accepting their lot patiently, anticipating the afterlife.†   (source)
  • Farmer knew that a lot of his audience didn't believe one should treat mdr in an impoverished locale: treatment was too expensive and difficult in such a setting, and treating it was probably unnecessary, because mdr wasn't as contagious or virulent as regular tb and would likely die out in the face of a good dots program.†   (source)
  • They supported, with small sums and advice, a few public health projects in far-flung places, such as Chiapas in Mexico, and their research branch, dedicated to criticizing the status quo in international health, was assembling a book about the special worldwide vulnerability of impoverished women to AIDS.†   (source)
  • His was a lesser branch of House Payne, an impoverished offshoot sprouted from the loins of a younger son.†   (source)
  • He saw a collection of inanimate objects in the room and constructed a system to explain them—a system that he interpreted with such rigid and impoverished logic that when George fires his shotgun at Martha and an umbrella pops out, he laughed out loud.†   (source)
  • Thrice at least Lord Tywin had offered to buy Valyrian longswords from impoverished lesser houses, but his advances had always been firmly rebuffed.†   (source)
  • I know that she spent her childhood in exile, impoverished, living on dreams and schemes, running from one city to the next, always fearful, never safe, friendless but for a brother who was by all accounts half-mad …. a brother who sold her maidenhood to the Dothraki for the promise of an army.†   (source)
  • And the Westerlings were impoverished.†   (source)
  • Many lost their jobs soon after Ndadaye took power, and the loss of a job often meant rejoining the impoverished masses.†   (source)
  • He looked like an impoverished old man, one of those sad wandering souls who travel the provinces hawking their wares from door to door.†   (source)
  • Grinning, he pushed back from the cyvasse table, picked up his wine flagon, and returned to pouring with Yezzan zo Qaggaz considerably richer and Brown Ben Plumm considerably impoverished.†   (source)
  • All the money his father gave him ended up in the pockets of the impoverished people he cared for in the hospital.†   (source)
  • Teaching computer science to impoverished students in West Phoenix wasn't going to make him rich—far from it—nor would it bring him much acclaim.†   (source)
  • --LU XUN, "ANXIOUS THOUGHTS ON 'NATURAL BREASTS' " (1927) We've been chronicling the world of impoverished women, but let's break for a billionaire.†   (source)
  • It's a landlocked and impoverished country with an agrarian economy that exports excellent coffee and tea and not much else -- a land of dwindling forests that still has lovely rustic landscapes.†   (source)
  • If culture were immutable, China would still be impoverished and Sheryl would be stumbling along on three-inch feet.†   (source)
  • "Twenty minutes down the road, Mortenson saw the spitting image of Yugu's new mosque presiding over the impoverished village of Xurd.†   (source)
  • Maybe he was never meant to be anything more than an impoverished immigrant who brawled his way through life.†   (source)
  • The tenement was a long passageway of ruined houses, all exactly the same: small, impoverished dwellings built of cement, each with a single door and two windows.†   (source)
  • Deo's family's herd was numerous but didn't yield a great deal of milk, just enough to feed them all and to make butter, with some left over to give away to impoverished neighbors.†   (source)
  • He'd made it himself and hoped that the pungent aroma would convince people that he was nothing more than an impoverished peasant.†   (source)
  • In Pakistan, and other impoverished countries most affected by Wahhabi proselytizing, though, the name has stuck.†   (source)
  • Yet this picturesque land is home to some of the most impoverished people on the planet, and one of the most forlorn of these was Goretti Nyabenda.†   (source)
  • A lot about Bujumbura felt familiar, common to the capitals of impoverished countries: the potholes, the dust and noise, the hydrocarbon haze, the close calls between pedestrians and vehicles traveling too fast -- "If you drove like this in the States, you would lose your license," Deo said.†   (source)
  • There was snow in the capital city, an unaccustomed spectacle that remained on the front page of all the newspapers, touted as a festive decoration, while in the impoverished shantytowns on the city's outskirts the blue, frozen bodies of small children were discovered every morning.†   (source)
  • But through watching Mukhtar, he had found a new purpose in life: protecting and speaking up for impoverished women in the villages.†   (source)
  • He had felt puzzled at first at the skinniness of so many of the well-dressed women he saw on the streets and in the apartments of the Upper East Side, a skinniness that would have marked them as impoverished back home.†   (source)
  • Much later, the impoverished artist was recognized as a master and today the painting hangs in a London museum, like so many works of art that left the country when people had to sell their furnishings to feed the victims of persecution.†   (source)
  • But a dollar a day for a teacher, Mortenson fumed, how could a government, even one as impoverished as Pakistan's, not provide that?†   (source)
  • He told them he was distressed at the great numbers of impoverished children who joined the army at twelve or thirteen, and told them about his campaign to build alternatives in the form of technical schools.†   (source)
  • Exact numbers are impossible to pin down in such a secretive endeavor, but one of the rare reports to appear in the heavily censored Saudi press hints at the massive change shrewdly invested petroleum profits are having on Pakistan's most impoverished students.†   (source)
  • But the vast majority of women who suffer fistulas are impoverished peasants who are never taken to a doctor and never receive medical assistance.†   (source)
  • Those shrunken beings wrapped in rags that were decaying into dusty threads, with their wasted, yellow heads, their wrinkled hands, their sewn eyelids, the sparse hairs on their napes, their eternal, terrible, lipless smiles, their rancid odor, and that sad, impoverished aura of ancient corpses, made her sick in her soul.†   (source)
  • Ann and Angeline Angeline Mugwendere's parents were impoverished farmers in Zimbabwe, and she was mocked by classmates when she went to school barefoot and in a torn dress with nothing underneath.†   (source)
  • And he set himself a task that he described as more difficult than summiting the world's tallest peak—building schools for the impoverished Sherpa communities whose porters had made his climb possible.†   (source)
  • "Mama," Esteban murmured, and his voice broke in his chest, exploding into a contained sobbing that erased in a single stroke his sad memories, the rancid smells, frozen mornings, and greasy soup of his impoverished childhood, his invalid mother and absent father, and the rage that had been gnawing at him ever since the day he first learned how to think, so that he forgot everything except those rare, luminous moments in which this unknown woman who now lay before him in her bed had…†   (source)
  • Haji Ali announced he'd met with the elders of all the Braldu villages and they had selected Pakhora, an especially impoverished community in the Lower Braldu Valley, governed by his close friend Haji Mousin, as their choice for the site of the CAI's second school.†   (source)
  • Rwanda is an impoverished, landlocked, patriarchal society that still lives in the shadow of the 1994 genocide in which 800,000 people were slaughtered in one hundred days.†   (source)
  • And as we listened to the Shia children of Korphe, one of the world's most impoverished communities, talk about how their hopes and dreams for the future had grown exponentially since a big American arrived a decade ago to build them the first school their village had ever known, the general and I were done for.†   (source)
  • "We're talking about more than fifty percent of the world's population, amongst whom are the most uprooted, disinherited and impoverished of the earth," Lewis said.†   (source)
  • In contrast to the profligate spending on sugar and alcohol, the most impoverished families on the globe appear to spend about 2 percent of their incomes educating their children, even though that is the most reliable escalator out of poverty.†   (source)
  • He saw that Aunt Pat was increasingly unhappy running a commune for Uncle Allen's impoverished relatives and began devising plans for moving them out.†   (source)
  • For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.†   (source)
  • It is her money which has restored this impoverished estate.†   (source)
  • Both are extraordinarily rational, and both lead to a frightful oppression and impoverishment of life, because they simplify it so crudely.†   (source)
  • We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques—literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.†   (source)
  • This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society.†   (source)
  • The blindness of their limited lives—lives truncated and impoverished by the oppression they had suffered long before they had ever heard of Communism—made them think that I was with their enemies.†   (source)
  • But as for the recently impoverished Atlanta people, they could starve and drop in the streets for all the newly rich Republicans cared.†   (source)
  • Only an unparalleled impoverishment of symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, that is, as archetypes of the unconscious…… Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists, and the divine empyrean a fair memory of things that once were.†   (source)
  • In the nature of the case it couldn't be avoided; and if you were going to prepare impoverished young folks for difficult functions, or if merely you were going to keep them out of trouble by having them read books, there were going to be some remarkable results begotten out of the mass.†   (source)
  • You have impoverished me, you have ruined me, you have cursed my declining years, and now you will crush me to death, fearful, awful, and unnatural monster that you are.†   (source)
  • His spirit was piercing, but there has to be mentioned his poor color, age-impoverished and gray; plus the new flat's ugliness; dullness of certain hours, dryness of days, dreariness and shabbiness--mentioned that the street was bare, dim and low in life, bad; and that there were business thoughts and malformed growths of purpose, terrible, menacing, salt-patched with noises and news, and pimpled and dotted around with lies, both practical and gratuitous.†   (source)
  • I am an impoverished wretch—the very gaberdine I wear is borrowed from Reuben of Tadcaster.†   (source)
  • This impoverishes the rich, suffering no grandeur but its own.†   (source)
  • Their prosperity and their fatness mean the impoverishment of the country.†   (source)
  • "The God of my fathers help me!" said the Jew; "will ye bear to the ground an impoverished creature?†   (source)
  • CHAPTER I. THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA.†   (source)
  • From this spring two results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted.†   (source)
  • For the Hurlbirds had backed the losing side in the War of Independence, and had been seriously impoverished and quite efficiently oppressed for that reason.†   (source)
  • She disappeared in a kind of sulphurous apotheosis, and when a few years later Medora again came back to New York, subdued, impoverished, mourning a third husband, and in quest of a still smaller house, people wondered that her rich niece had not been able to do something for her.†   (source)
  • What a strange-looking youth, tall, prematurely aged, the big blue eyes faded with anxiety, the hair impoverished and tousled!†   (source)
  • There came cruel, cold, and biting winds, and blizzards of snow, all testing relentlessly for failing muscles and impoverished blood.†   (source)
  • She had spent, it seemed, two months in Great Britain—seven weeks in touring from Stratford to Strathpeffer, and one as paying guest in an old English family near Ledbury, an impoverished, but still stately family, called Bagshawe.†   (source)
  • But I do mind seeing the process of impoverishment from a sort of—I don't know what to call it— innocence.†   (source)
  • Their mother, who came of an impoverished line of princes—the H——s— had died at Petersburg when her husband was in his heydey.†   (source)
  • The panic of 1837, which Jackson bequeathed to Van Buren, turned the planters from the impoverished lands of Virginia, the Carolinas, and east Georgia, toward the West.†   (source)
  • The Government had given him a good holding in the village, and though the demands of his sons, now grey-bearded officers on their own account, had impoverished him, he was still a person of consequence.†   (source)
  • I should think, sir, that the appearance of Mohegan and the Leather-Stocking, stalking through the country, impoverished and forlorn, would wither your sight.†   (source)
  • "That's what has impoverished him, eh?"†   (source)
  • Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg.†   (source)
  • …LIFE IN FOUR ACTS By Anton Checkov CHARACTERS ALEXANDER SEREBRAKOFF, a retired professor HELENA, his wife, twenty-seven years old SONIA, his daughter by a former marriage MME. VOITSKAYA, widow of a privy councilor, and mother of Serebrakoff's first wife IVAN (VANYA) VOITSKI, her son MICHAEL ASTROFF, a doctor ILIA (WAFFLES) TELEGIN, an impoverished landowner MARINA, an old nurse A WORKMAN The scene is laid on SEREBRAKOFF'S country place UNCLE VANYA ACT I A country house on a terrace.†   (source)
  • "You took me a fatherless, impoverished, and friendless orphan," she said, struggling to command her voice, "when others, who live in what may be called affluence compared to your state, chose to forget me; and may Heaven in its goodness bless you for it!†   (source)
  • But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it, and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.†   (source)
  • King of France, who was formidable still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.†   (source)
  • I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.†   (source)
  • Miss Pross's friendship being of the thoroughly practical kind, she had ravaged Soho and the adjacent provinces, in search of impoverished French, who, tempted by shillings and halfcrowns, would impart culinary mysteries to her.†   (source)
  • Happily, however, there was sleep in Beauvais that night to help them out of it and they passed on once more into solitude and loneliness: jingling through the untimely cold and wet, among impoverished fields that had yielded no fruits of the earth that year, diversified by the blackened remains of burnt houses, and by the sudden emergence from ambuscade, and sharp reining up across their way, of patriot patrols on the watch on all the roads.†   (source)
  • I am very happy that Catherine is not to be impoverished—but I hope he may never have a penny too much!†   (source)
  • During that twenty-year period an immense number of fields were left untilled, houses were burned, trade changed its direction, millions of men migrated, were impoverished, or were enriched, and millions of Christian men professing the law of love of their fellows slew one another.†   (source)
  • Small nations are often impoverished, not because they are small, but because they are weak; the great empires prosper less because they are great than because they are strong.†   (source)
  • And their impoverishment is not due to extravagance—that would be nothing; living in good style —that's the proper thing for noblemen; it's only the nobles who know how to do it.†   (source)
  • They have long been impoverished by oppression, and the poorer they become the more easily may they be oppressed: they can never escape from this fatal circle of cause and consequence.†   (source)
  • "For myself! ah, courageous sirs," said the Jew, "I am a broken and impoverished man; a beggar's staff must be my portion through life, supposing I were to pay you fifty crowns."†   (source)
  • You'll say again that I'm a reactionist, or some other terrible word; but all the same it does annoy and anger me to see on all sides the impoverishing of the nobility to which I belong, and, in spite of the amalgamation of classes, I'm glad to belong.†   (source)
  • Monsieur Gabelle had held the impoverished and involved estate on written instructions, to spare the people, to give them what little there was to give—such fuel as the heavy creditors would let them have in the winter, and such produce as could be saved from the same grip in the summer—and no doubt he had put the fact in plea and proof, for his own safety, so that it could not but appear now.†   (source)
  • *r But they believe themselves to be impoverished because their wealth does not augment as rapidly as that of their neighbors; any they think that their power is lost, because they suddenly come into collision with a power greater than their own: *s thus they are more hurt in their feelings and their passions than in their interests.†   (source)
  • Many of those who had already contracted a taste for the fine arts are impoverished: on the other hand, many of those who are not yet rich begin to conceive that taste, at least by imitation; and the number of consumers increases, but opulent and fastidious consumers become more scarce.†   (source)
  • The ultimate reward of a union with a young woman who was both unattractive and impoverished ought to be connected with immediate disadvantages by some very palpable chain.†   (source)
  • When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened.†   (source)
  • In consequence of this, in the higher spheres, and even in society, all was chaos, and although everyone was interested, no one could tell whether the native tribes really were becoming impoverished and ruined, or whether they were in a flourishing condition.†   (source)
  • …States the prejudices of the Whites against the Blacks seem to increase in proportion as slavery is abolished—Situation of the Negroes in the Northern and Southern States—Why the Americans abolish slavery—Servitude, which debases the slave, impoverishes the master—Contrast between the left and the right bank of the Ohio—To what attributable—The Black race, as well as slavery, recedes towards the South—Explanation of this fact—Difficulties attendant upon the abolition of slavery in the…†   (source)
  • "If Richard returns," said Fitzurse, "he returns to enrich his needy and impoverished crusaders at the expense of those who did not follow him to the Holy Land.†   (source)
  • —it is not fit for such as we to sit with the rulers of the land," said the Jew; whose ambition for precedence though it had led him to dispute Place with the extenuated and impoverished descendant of the line of Montdidier, by no means stimulated him to an intrusion upon the privileges of the wealthy Saxons.†   (source)
  • His own character being light, profligate, and perfidious, John easily attached to his person and faction, not only all who had reason to dread the resentment of Richard for criminal proceedings during his absence, but also the numerous class of "lawless resolutes," whom the crusades had turned back on their country, accomplished in the vices of the East, impoverished in substance, and hardened in character, and who placed their hopes of harvest in civil commotion.†   (source)
  • To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.†   (source)
  • Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.†   (source)
  • And they were even going into debt to Tamoszius Kuszleika and letting him impoverish himself.†   (source)
  • The taste for luxury, the love of war, the sway of fashion, and the most superficial as well as the deepest passions of the human heart, co-operated to enrich the poor and to impoverish the rich.†   (source)
  • As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penniman, who was shocked at her sister's coarseness, replied that he had been actuated by the noblest of motives—the desire not to impoverish Catherine.†   (source)
  • I think that in our time it is very necessary to cleanse, to regulate, and to adapt the feeling of ambition, but that it would be extremely dangerous to seek to impoverish and to repress it over-much.†   (source)
  • The idea that mines of gold and silver are the sources of national wealth was at that time singularly prevalent in Europe; a fatal delusion, which has done more to impoverish the nations which adopted it, and has cost more lives in America, than the united influence of war and bad laws.†   (source)
  • In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears.†   (source)
  • Thus a swarm of foolish novels and monstrous romances will be produced, either to the great impoverishing of booksellers, or to the great loss of time and depravation of morals in the reader; nay, often to the spreading of scandal and calumny, and to the prejudice of the characters of many worthy and honest people.†   (source)
  • This law, they tell us, was made by an excellent king who had more regard to the riches of his country than to his own wealth, and therefore provided against the heaping up of so much treasure as might impoverish the people.†   (source)
  • The suffering States would not long consent to remain associated upon a principle which distributes the public burdens with so unequal a hand, and which was calculated to impoverish and oppress the citizens of some States, while those of others would scarcely be conscious of the small proportion of the weight they were required to sustain.†   (source)
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