Although she was part of a fairly respectable Mongolian clan, her family lived in genteel poverty, and Wenxiu often helped ...

They lived in Venice all their lives. The writer knew than only when they were very old, but despite the genteel poverty that had surrounded them since the decline of the family's trading fleet ...

Faced with genteel poverty, the fledgling author, Jo March, is struggling to make a name for herself in male-dominated New York City; considerate Meg is now married, and the artistically inclined ...

She lives in genteel poverty in a crumbling castle with her destitute author father and hippie stepmother, a woman much taken to stomping about naked in the rain called Topaz. (“Even if this is ...