These are members of the so-called underclass - a hateful, voguish word used to describe Americans consigned to perpetual poverty.

After reciting a landay about perpetual poverty, one woman was urged by the others to tell Khogiani about their opium problem.

But, throughout his life, writing was the only source of income for Manik Bandopadhyay and, hence, he languished perpetual poverty.

The plan was to ameliorate the poor through discipline, education, and by finding them sufficient work; thus, helping the people escape their perpetual poverty in a modern sense.

His was no fit of devotion but an orderly submission to rules: perpetual poverty, chastity, obedience.

He's spent his whole life crawling up from the most abysmal beginnings on a world of perpetual poverty and woefully short lives to where he is captain of a team.

Kaiji is always thinking about money and his perpetual poverty frequently brings him to tears.

"That priest, who took the oath of perpetual poverty, now reposes in a gold-mine!"

Gedou Otome Tai tells the story of the five Hokke sisters, who were abandoned by their now-deceased parents, and live in perpetual poverty.

Taxes were increased severely and the peasants lived in a state of perpetual poverty.