1 Ashamed that she was poor and reduced to galling shifts and penury and work that negroes should do.
2 Remembering the bitter hungry days at Tara and her more recent penury, Scarlett felt that she could never eat enough of these rich dishes.
3 God, when he gave the world in common to all mankind, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him.
4 Here lies the Negro problem in its naked dirt and penury.
5 It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury.
6 It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our ordinary meals, was served round between the services.