Upon the death of Arco Hermoso in 1835, the marquesa found herself in straitened circumstances, and in less than two years she married Antonio Arrón de Ayala, a man considerably her junior.
Leave what concerns thee not,' said I: 'indeed thou hast straitened my breast and troubled my mind.
At this my breast wasstraitened and I set out and journeyed till I reached Damascus, where my landlord received me with joy.
I shall have things arranged so as to make you as comfortable as you can be in such straitened quarters, and expect you will come as soon as you can get a good opportunity.
It was plain that they would have been worse straitenedthan in their accommodations, if he had refused their kindness and gone somewhere else.
Then," said Morton, hastily, "the garrison must be straitened for provisions?
But, as is commonly the case with people in easy circumstances, she found it hard to believe that her friends were so straitened as to have a difficulty in supporting the ordinary obligations of a civilised state.
To Elsie's observant eyes it presently became evident that the Dalys were in very straitened circumstances.
In a truly Christian spirit Elsie returned them pity and compassion, because of their widowhood and straitened circumstances, invited them to her house, and when they came received them with kindness and cordiality.
About this time, we observed the Enemy formed, having a bush of short brush wood on their right, which straitened them in room, and obliged them to form in columns.
Bertha, with no lack of interest now; for another pupil, of course, meant more money, and where the means are so straitened every little sum becomes of vital importance.
He was feeling immensely relieved because it was no trouble of straitened means which had brought Bertha to ask his help that day.
Need I write that our hearts were full of sorrow, and we saw that this was a case which must have help, no matter how straitened might be our financial circumstances!
I told the Indians who were better off about her straitened condition, and she and hers were made more comfortable.
The mere vastness and newness of the country make it full of allurement to adventure, the rewards of which are larger and more immediate than can be hoped for in older and more straitened communities.
Telegraph tolls are heavy and space is straitened while atmosphere and extenuating circumstances are not news at all.
Her circumstances were undoubtedly straitened since her husband's death.
There were now times of extremely straitened circumstances at home.
He had never worried much about his mother, though he knew herstraitened circumstances: although he was well able to afford to help her, he left it all to Christophe.
They were very straitened at the moment: the removal, the new lodgings, which were dearer though just as uncomfortable, fewer lessons for Christophe and more expenses.
When the epidemic had carried off the police clerk, the widow was instraitened circumstances.
Certainly she suffered much and bore with patience, not only the privations of domestic life in straitened circumstances, but also the waywardness and eccentricities of a mind beyond her comprehension.
Charles had calculated upon Henry for large subsidies during the war, but instead of receiving these, he had found Henry as muchstraitened for money as he was himself.
She lived there quietly with her one daughter, in somewhat straitened circumstances.
A foreign family, finding themselves in straitened circumstances, were desirous of parting with various things, consisting for the most part in articles of female attire.
The way that leads to life is straitened not because it is difficult but because there are few who find it, as is said here.
This is my case that every day, from dawn till eve I spend in making ropes, nor have I one single moment wherein to take rest; and still I am sore straitened to provide even dry bread for myself and family.
