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  • The result of his experiments was that he found himself completely impoverished, and lived in penury for the remainder of his life.
  • He soon rose from penury to ease, and married a painter's beautiful daughter, Maria Vagini; she died after seven years of wedded life.
  • As the war went on the naval power of the Greeks diminished, partly owing to the penury of their treasury, and partly to the growth of piracy in the general anarchy of the Eastern Mediterranean.
  • Despite extreme penury, he then continued to study indefatigably ancient and modern languages, history and literature, finally turning his attention to mathematics and astronomy.
  • In the penury of the dockyards Holmes could not be provided with the force he was promised, and the enterprise was but partially successful.
 
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