But how could this be done in my penniless condition?
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or lands for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.
And she told him about the old gentleman who had come to her rooms when she stood absolutely pennilessand at bay before the world.
The manufacturing millionaire appears before us as the victim of the same harsh destiny as the penniless crossing-sweeper, and the banker of Lombard Street is overshadowed by the same blighting poverty as the lumper of Wapping.
A penniless omnipotence is an insupportable presence.
I am penniless and helpless; and but for this kind family I should be homeless and friendless.
Left penniless by his aged father's death, the whirlwind of the Southern war swept away the last of his property.
Valois, the rich and successful lawyer, is another man from the penniless prisoner of seven years before.
Is it so unpleasant for a man who thinks he is penniless to be told that he has made the year's income of a cabinet minister?
Surely a pleasant prospect--to go "home" penniless and without personal effects, clothing or even prospects.
He must disappear and be forgotten by his friends--a penniless man, without a country.
If he refuses to ship as landlords direct, he is forcibly put on board by legal process, or through the agency of the whiskey bottle, and in either case is sent penniless and almost naked to sea.
The heir of such a heap of money, penniless though he was at the present moment, was a very different individual from the poor Horace Scarsdale, with nothing but his cunning wits and unscrupulous mind to help him on in the world.
He grasped the Colonel's hands in his own with an exuberant satisfaction, which the poor Squire of Tillington's penniless heir would not have ventured upon.
Such penniless jiggers you can pick up anywhere by the bushel .
A young and pretty girl ought not waste herself on a penniless nobody.
She glories in her son, you say--yet is willing to marry him to a penniless foundling.
The utter andpenniless destitution in which she was left by her husband's decease did not suffice to terminate her maddening chase.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "penniless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
