It was, therefore, quite natural that he should suppose her no whit less poor than Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse or the other neighboring Kentish squires whose impecuniousness was too blatant a fact to be unknown even to a stranger in the land.
"The Nest of the Sparrowhawk"
Baroness Orczy
There was reason for believing that David's stolid silence regarding his own concerns concealed a general impecuniousness quite as pronounced as that of the artist friends whose cause he pleaded.
"War-time Silhouettes"
Stephen Hudson
To those who have studied the author's life of opium-eating; of constant wandering from place to place; of impecuniousness so utter that, after all the painstaking of the modern biographer, and after full allowance for the ravens who seem always to have been ready to feed him, it is a mystery how he escaped the workhouse; of endless schemes and endless non-performance-it is only a wonder that anything of Coleridge's ever reached the public except in newspaper columns.
"A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)"
George Saintsbury