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Meanings of penniless adventurer in English

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Usage of penniless adventurer in English
1
Your friends will tell you that you are marrying a penniless adventurer.
Our Friend the Charlatan
2
Count Fosco, though not a rich man, was not a penniless adventurer either.
The Woman in White
3
He had expected this penniless adventurer to catch eagerly at the chance he offered.
Birds of Prey
4
Is a broken gamester, a penniless adventurer, to tell Eugène de Canaples what he dares?
The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sie...
5
Yet he had gone a nearly penniless adventurer; he returned at the head of an enterprise.
The Blazed Trail
6
She can be the daughter of a multi-millionaire or a penniless adventurer for all I care.
A Maker of History
7
I believe that Sparrowsky is a penniless adventurer.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
8
La Salle, a penniless adventurer, recrossed the ocean.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, ...
9
But why does he allow her to throw herself away on a penniless adventurer like Hawkehurst?
Charlotte's Inheritance
10
I am, in truth, a penniless adventurer.
Arms and the Woman
11
On the contrary, I am a penniless adventurer whom chance alone has cast upon your hospitable grand staircase.
Flowing Gold
12
You are a penniless adventurer, and I am a fugitive from-thelaw, the King, or what you will.
Arms and the Woman
13
I am an almost penniless adventurer, and for urgent reasons of my own I seek to win fortune.
The People of the Mist
14
As I told you I am a penniless adventurer seeking my fortune in the rough places of the earth.
The People of the Mist
15
They show I think"-thespeaker smiled amicably-"thatwe have not to do with any mere penniless adventurer.
The Mating of Lydia
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Now they have reached some agreement which permits Mrs. Haxton to fly for higher matrimonial game than a penniless adventurer.
The Wheel O' Fortune
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