Begging

Examples

• I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Then I walked to Munich--then I walked to Italy--begging, begging everything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That general talk about a particular case is mere question begging, Ladislaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Turning to me, as she took some loaves from the oven, she asked bluntly-- Did you ever go a-begging afore you came here? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The moment it caught my eye, I despatched my servant with a note begging him to come over to me immediately. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I sent up a message at once, declining to disturb them, and only begging to know whether I could be of any use. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If they cannot earn this by their labour, they must make it up, he supposes, either by begging or stealing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I hope Edith will receive him properly; but she was rather put out, as I could see, by the liberty I had taken in begging for an invitation for him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But have you never been prosecuted for begging? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Miss Jellyby proceeded, after begging Peepy's pardon with a kiss and assuring him that she hadn't meant to do it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I immediately answered Lord Worcester, begging him not to irritate his parents unnecessarily. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It was only by trying begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to base my articles. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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