be in reduced circumstances

He received little remuneration for his work, and at the end of life was in reduced circumstances.

By now the family was in reduced circumstances and he supported himself by giving lessons, later, as a student, from his writing.

He was in reduced circumstances.

Latterly she was in reduced circumstances and was obliged to appear as a vocalist in music halls.

"There is never a month passes," he said, "that I do not dream of being in reduced circumstances, and obliged to go back to the river to earn a living.

Mather was born in Lowton, in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire, England, of a family which was in reduced circumstances but entitled to bear a coat-of-arms.

After his death, which was in reduced circumstances, his early literary work has enjoyed wider recognition, as reflected in Winds Can Wake up the Dead... and The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories, both published in the last decade.