1.   When the family came here from Russia, they were penniless.

2.   But despite the vast amounts he earned in his career, Hunt was reportedly penniless at the time of his death.

3.   My father had gone bankrupt, and my mother was nearly penniless, but as a relative of Robert Barclay, I got a good bursary.

4.   Bankers say the average credit union member, far from being nearly penniless, earns more than the average American.

5.   But if I had been penniless, M.D. Anderson would have accepted me.

6.   But the piper was penniless, and the ship owners ordered him ashore.

7.   He admitted to being nearly penniless.

8.   He was penniless.

9.   I stole occasionally, but I was penniless.

10.   In his own words and through expert witnesses, Baker asserted that his client is penniless and has little hope of making much money in the future.