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Impecunious Jews had to combat dire poverty and face the calamities to which all human flesh is heir, but they also had to contend with the bitterness of antisemitism.
Rothschild Women. 2009
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Street and to write an article on "Impecunious Life in London."
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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Impecunious nephew pouches sovereign, and it vanishes.
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In the early telegraph days I remember going with him to see Mackay in ` ` The Impecunious Country Editor. ''
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I remember going with him to see Mackay in 'The Impecunious Country
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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The Good but Impecunious Knight bides in the business office, and there soothly will he tarry till you come anon.
Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901
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Impecunious as I was, I sometimes had pence enough to satisfy this craving, and discovered in time such realms of joy as I had never dreamed of; such monarchs as Mozart, Handel, and Beethoven, and others, of whom my father knew apparently so little; and yet they were more potent enchanters than Grétry, Hérold, and Boieldieu, whose music he sang so well.
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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Impecunious youth, hungering after literature, took the opportunity of turning over the pages of the books exposed for sale on the stalls outside the booksellers 'shops; the men in charge charitably allowed a poor student to pursue his course of free studies; and in this way a duodecimo volume of some two hundred pages, such as _Smarra_ or _Pierre
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Impecunious youth, hungering after literature, took the opportunity of turning over the pages of the books exposed for sale on the stalls outside the booksellers 'shops; the men in charge charitably allowed a poor student to pursue his course of free studies; and in this way a duodecimo volume of some two hundred pages, such as _Smarra_ or _Pierre
Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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A talk on "The Impecunious Draughtsman Abroad" was given by Mr. Myron
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