Lister could not guess their nationality, but imagined they had known poverty and oppression in Eastern Europe.

But, as we have seen, many people try to conceal their poverty of thought under a flood of verbiage.

Above everything, he sought inward approval, not the praises of the world,that happiness which lies within one's self, in the absence of all ignoble fears, in contentment, in that peace of the mind which can face poverty, disease, exile, and death.

Blessed be God that there are still places where grinding poverty is unfelt and unfeared!

They saw poverty and misery and pain, which came of the evil which man had done upon the earth, and were his punishment, and could be cured by nothing but by the return of each to his Father, and the giving up of all self-worship and self-seeking and sin.

" "It is no light thing," said he, "to endure poverty uncomplainingly; and a difficult thing to bear wealth without becoming arrogant.

We prefer poverty.

He felt a Creole's anger, too, that a tenant should be the holder of wealth while his landlord suffered poverty.

No! rather would I share that poverty with you, and strengthen you in your purpose.

I am going to hide my poverty in the mine of Rammelsburg.

"All this wealth, and you pleading poverty?" "I never said I was a pauper," returned Uncle John, complacently.

He feels poverty before he sees it, never complains till he be pinched with wants; never spares till the bottom, when it is too late either to spend or recover.

MANY ARE RICH, having more than $20,000 in good hard cash, yet the squalor in which they live would indicate the direst poverty.

Being a spirit, I see below external splendor and find much poverty of heart and soul under the velvet and the ermine which should cover rich and royal natures.

[hangs] his head, and a' that? Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

7. The only industries Delafield needs are those which can provide for their operation without forcing workers to be idle so much of the time as to reduce apparent income, and so to cause poverty, sickness, and temptation to wrongdoing.

" "So you go back to old times, and bring up my poverty and your charity, do you?" said the widow, bitterly.

I don't fear poverty.

As I was sitting (says an ancient writer) with some senators of Bruges, before the gate of the Senate-House, a certain beggar presented himself to us, and with sighs and tears, and many lamentable gestures, expressed to us his miserable poverty, and asked our alms, telling us at the same time, that he had about him a private maim and a secret mischief, which very shame restrained him from discovering to the eyes of men.

Her heart was pretty full now; for she was only eighteen and she had been considering his poverty.

" The prosperity of the poor peasant was soon on the wane, and before long he was reduced to abject poverty.

6, bids "wine be given to him that is ready to [4307]perish, and to him that hath grief of heart, let him drink that he forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more."

I know one who if this pretty little fellow could only be her own would willingly accept your poverty, and paste boxes together from morning till night and lead a recluse's life in this one room, which he suffices to fill with sunshine.

Where'er I have my rhymes, thence vermin fly, All, saving that foul-fac'd vermin poverty.

The assailants were all trained shots, men who lived by their guns, and to whom a shaking hand or a dim eye meant poverty and hunger.