pennilessness

I look not to Republicans as the cause of my imminent and literal pennilessness.

Cuts: The President Will Show His Real Priorities 2011

There was nothing particularly funny about his current plight to Twain, who clung literally to his last dime, afraid, he said, that complete pennilessness “might suggest suicide.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

There was nothing particularly funny about his current plight to Twain, who clung literally to his last dime, afraid, he said, that complete pennilessness “might suggest suicide.”

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

To hear her tell it, rich, supportive husbands are always dropping dead of heart attacks, or going to the loony bin, or running off with the secretary, leaving poor “Patsy” on the perilous precipice of pennilessness.

Mommies Unite! You���ve Got Nothing to Lose! 2007

Now, Connor Cochran, Beagle's business manager, writes in with this grim news about Beagle being ripped off by the British company that adapted his novel for animation, and Beagle's difficulty in fighting back due to his general pennilessness:

Boing Boing: September 25, 2005 - October 1, 2005 Archives 2005

And she could weigh against that the absolute pennilessness of her baronet-son.

The Way We Live Now 2004

They lived in dread of the pettiest casual expense, for the day of pennilessness was again approaching.

New Grub Street 2003

My efforts are utterly vain; I suppose the prospect of pennilessness is itself a hindrance; the fear haunts me.

New Grub Street 2003

In the midst of young Redburn's good manners and proper upbringing, his being the son of a Melville and a Gansevoort is a grotesque irrelevance; the truth of his life as others see it is his abject pennilessness, his humbling ragged clothes.

Melville in Love Hardwick, Elizabeth 2000

To his dire and utter pennilessness, Cousin Tryphena's tiny income seemed a fortune.

Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918