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Meanings of poverty-stricken in английском

Poor enough to need help from others.

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Usage of poverty-stricken in английском
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Are some of the natural resources of this dilapidated and poverty-stricken country.
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
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The air was rent with the cries of orphans and poverty-stricken widows.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State o...
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She offered to pay her share, since they were both poverty-stricken teachers.
Big girl: a novel
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The whole of this poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned.
Les Misérables
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In spite of her poverty-stricken appearance, Mrs. Sowler was not absolutely destitute.
The Fallen Leaves
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He filled his pipe as the poverty-stricken homestead passed out of sight.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
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A theory left to such support, must be poverty-stricken in argument indeed.
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
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I am a poverty-stricken girl, going out to governess at the Cape.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
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The rich forests shrink slowly into thin tracts of scrubby, poverty-stricken vegetation.
The Story of Evolution
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You don't want to be a child of someone who is poverty-stricken.
The new yorker
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She must either be poverty-stricken or have an income provided for her.
The Heavenly Twins
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Free meals or cent meals for poverty-stricken school children are not Socialism.
Socialism As It Is / A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Mo...
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Everyone remembers abject, poverty-stricken and war-ravaged Vienna in his The Third Man.
The Guardian
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To-day's portion of my journalizing epistle has been very dull and poverty-stricken.
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
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To-day's portion of my journalising epistle has been very dull and poverty-stricken.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 / The Letters of C...
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What interest attracted him to this poverty-stricken house, he who was rich?
The Purse