Beggars

Examples

• Less given to detail are the beggars who make sporting ventures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In the name of Saint Bennet, the prince of these bull-beggars, said Front-de-Boeuf, have we a real monk this time, or another impostor? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There are the beggars of punctual business-habits too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Out-and-out beggars get taken care of, but poor gentle folks fare badly, because they won't ask, and people don't dare to offer charity. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There are some beggars that you put on horseback, and they're the first to ride you down. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But there are, besides, the individual beggars; and how does the heart of the Secretary fail him when he has to cope with THEM! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A howling swarm of beggars followed us--surrounded us --almost headed us off. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Akin to these are the suggestively-befriended beggars. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Oh, I know,' said Sam; 'them as hangs up in the linen-drapers' shops, with beggars' petitions and all that 'ere upon 'em? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These are the corporate beggars. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There are the nobly independent beggars too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This success flattered my vanity; but my father discouraged me, by criticising my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Here, you little beggars, Dobbin said, giving some sixpences amongst them, and then went off by himself through the rain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There are the inspired beggars, too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There are the beggars on horseback too, in another sense from the sense of the proverb. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If my old friends choose to believe lies about me I shall have to make new ones, that's all; and you know beggars mustn't be choosers. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It's you who want to introduce beggars into my family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They are found in all European countries to-day; they are tinkers, pedlars, horse-dealers, showmen, fortune-tellers, and beggars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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