Finland had been separated for economic purposes from the more civilized countries, and bound to the poverty-stricken, artificially isolated and oppressed Russia.

I have seen it myself, I can testify to it; I have seen it and marvelled at it; I have seen it in spite of the degraded sins and poverty-stricken appearance of our peasantry.

He sits and talks to the workmen for hours; he pokes his nose into all sorts of placeshospitals, workshops, poverty-stricken densand people are always civil to him.

Yes, it was their fault that he had been driven from Skåne, and had been obliged to move to poverty-stricken Blekinge.

As they flew over this ground, the eagle heard the boy mutter to himself that it was a mighty ugly and poverty-stricken place.

My own blessings only brought more vividly to my mind the masses of toiling, struggling, poverty-stricken fellow-creatures, from whom the pressure of want shuts out the light of life.

Frederick Douglass was born in February, l8l7,as nearly as the date could be determined in after years, when it became a matter of public interest,at Tuckahoe, near Easton, Talbot County, on the eastern shore of Maryland, a barren and poverty-stricken district, which possesses in the birth of Douglass its sole title to distinction.

It is a great, little, splendid, mean, extravagant, poverty-stricken barrack for soldiers of fortune and votaries of folly.

It stands, it may be, in some poverty-stricken corner or court of a town or city.

That language must be wofully poverty-stricken, which has no signs to represent the most common and familiar objects and conditions.

I hope never to see a sadder sight than that poverty-stricken little family.

Poorly clad, half-starved, poverty-stricken people, headed for the Holy Land, came and rubbed elbows with American and European women and children.

Miss Lavinia-says that he has the entree of the two or three very exclusive New York houses that have never yet opened their doors to Mrs. Latham and several more aspiring Whirlpoolers, Mrs. Jenks-Smith having penetrated the sacred precincts, only by right of having been presented at the English Court in the last reign through the influence of her stepdaughter, who married a poverty-stricken title.

Is it that they are idle, or are they too broken spirited and poverty-stricken to unite in any public work?

Who is he?' 'A poverty-stricken squire, with an old house and a few acresthe remnants of a large estate gambled away by his father.

The town itself looked mean and poverty-stricken, for it was of comparatively modern growth, and contained but a few buildings of importance.

Good-natured, poverty-stricken barnstormers they doubtless were, living from-hand-to-mouth, and quite willing to go through the whole gamut of tragedy, from Shakespeare to Dryden, for the sake of a good supper.

Its story turned upon the marriage of the elderly Lord Brumpton to a designing young minx who estranges the nobleman from his son, Lord Hardy, the gentlemanly, poverty-stricken leading man of the piece.

The day for making great fortunes in the Church is past, and the poor youths who now wear the cassock and dream of a mitre make me think of those emigrants who go to distant countries famous through long centuries of plunder, and find them even more poverty-stricken than their own land.

Some of these places were prettily situated under groves of dates and wild fig trees, and they occasionally boasted houses of a decent description; the majority were, however, most wretched, and we were often surprized to see persons respectably dressed, and mounted upon good-looking donkeys, emerge from streets and lanes leading to the most squalid and poverty-stricken dwellings imaginable.

Much to my astonishment, I have seen, in the midst of these very wretched tenements, one superior to the rest placed upon a platform, with its verandah in front, furnished with chairs, and surrounded by all the dirt and rubbish accumulated by its poverty-stricken neighbours, miserable-looking children picking up a scanty subsistence, and lean cats groping about for food.

A change took place in him which turned all aims, all efforts, all victories of the world, into the merest, most poverty-stricken trifling.

For he was one of the manynot all of the purestwho cherish an ideal of woman which, although indeed poverty-stricken and crude, is to their minds of snowy favor, to their judgment of loftiest excellence.

She read with keen eyes the miserable secret of her father's strange guest in the poverty-stricken walls, in the mute evidences of menial handicraft performed in loneliness and privation, in this piteous adaptation of an accident to save the conscious shame of premeditated toil.

The Countess Shulski had been through many vicissitudes with these two since her husband's death, but seldomonly once perhapshad they gone down to such poverty-stricken surroundings.