Both Uses of
penury
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.†
p. 36.2penury = a state of extreme poverty or destitution
- It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
p. 168.6 *