Color Blind
He expected the stench of alcohol and destitution to hang in the air and to see more than a few homeless - or people who _looked_ like homeless - people staggering around after a long afternoon of cheap liquor and even cheaper food.
Marjorie's Change
As time went by, marjorie had been left nearly destitute, losing her home and car for her lack of funds. she was reduced to a life of menial jobs and living in a wreck of a baltimore apartment.
Justice by the Water
Without men's foolish generosity and her mother's tutelage, she'd probably be as hopelessly destitute as her lovers' tended to find themselves. leesha shook her head.
Counter Earth Chronicles Dual Realities Chapter 40: If You Are Going To Be A Bear Be A Grizzly (We Go Down Together Part VI)
"oh yeah they convinced a warehouse owner to help lift up some of the poverty stricken and destitute." my comfort animal said remembering. "yes and the rent is past due. if i don't pay, my future here will be bleak. madam olga forecasted that herself.
Anthwa
"leader of these destitute wolves, far travelers from vyskaal, and in_desperate_ need of you, little ahoka." ahoka beamed, glancing to the four voracious wolfess warriors behind the leader.
The Fox General: Menagerie of the Shah
Most of the foxen colonies we encountered were, as the rumors said, evacuated and stripped of supplies, making them almost as desolate as the human ruins; only a few foxes remained, the old and the destitute.
Death's Blood Ch. Eleven: Gone Astray
All the destitute folk whose blood were tasted by my khopeshes were only practise. agnarge was the borough where i had begun turning around the war on crime, but that is not the promise that i had made upon leaving the sanctuary to return to highcond.
The Double Life - Chapter 1
You've probably saved me the biggest deal of my life, my friend, and i would be forlorn, nay, destitute without it. i made the mistake of keeping some vital information in the folds, you see."
Fates of the Unicorns 86 - Heads or Tails
She could have ended up destitute and begging, or 'slaved' to some art dealer. or she could have hit it off big. but that would have taken energy and effort, two things she was lacking.
Love Lost, Chapter 18b: Dismissals, concluded.
When he was three hours late, i was ready to wring his neck for getting a motel room or bribing a nurse to let him camp in a destitute trainer hostel just to win our argument.
A whispered promise
They had already broken her spirit, and she was destitute, barely knowing where she was, who she was, or the answers to the questions they kept asking.
Object of Desire
In her 312 years she had been at the best well off, at the worst destitute. but this casting would solve her immediate financial problems, at least temporarily.