You have shewn more regard to an unprosperous, an obscure, and a fallen family, than to your own safety and reputation.
"Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker."
Cicero
Mr. Mallard's state was not unprosperous, for he had invented a process put in use by his employers, and derived benefit from it.
"The Emancipated"
George Gissing
Mary had told the story as she had received it from her parents, beginning with the flight to London from some small, dull, and unprosperous town in the flattest of the Midlands, long ago, when a young man from the country had great chances of fortune.
"The House of Souls"
Arthur Machen