| But I soon tired of the parental nagging, and the boredom and the pennilessness of teenage unemployment, and set out to find myself an income. |
| I'd spent an hour moaning over my latte about my state of pennilessness when my friend interrupted to ask whether I planned on entering my book in the new Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript award. |
| She argued that their pennilessness had been caused by the insurer's wrongful repudiation of the policy, but the court rejected that argument. |
| In her last years, she was saved from pennilessness through a chain of events that could be traced to that day in 1954 when a bull almost killed her. |
| Financial difficulty had evolved into pennilessness, and with no ordinary work available she had been at her wits' end. |
