beggarly

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Beggarly beyond conception in her private affairs, she was as pompous in public as if she had the blood of all the thrones of Europe in her veins.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various

"Beggarly pay, and 'tis time you knew it, Master."

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.

Governor Endicott also sends Winthrop a unicorn's horn, which was the property of a certain Mrs. Beggarly, who, in spite of her name, seems to have been rich in medical knowledge and possessions.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Beggarly enough in the beginning—a very whine; but at the end more like the demand of a robber!”

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

"Beggarly lot as I am," he said, "unlikely as it seems that I can marry at all, I'm hanged if I don't marry an Englishwoman, if I give my life to a woman at all."

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson