beggary

Example Sentences

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Beggary were better than such deep disgrace as that.

From The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis

Beggary was to be the portion of Yoémon, the destitution of the outcast.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

Beggary exists in a form the most hideous: there is an organization of it with grades, and a sort of hierarchy.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park

I care not, I. Beggary, shame, death, scandal and reproach For you I'll hazard all—why, what care I?

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Beggary, Caroline, with four hundred pounds a year!

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony