beggary

Example Sentences

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Victims of enclosure could toil as day laborers, work in the woolen industry, or turn to beggary and crime.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

“We started our drive against the menace of beggary three months back.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2017

But when their booty-laden wagons trundled away, they left behind a city reduced to beggary.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had resolved at a very early stage never to be reduced to any form of emotional beggary, never to plead, never to impose guilt, and never to consider the world well lost for love.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he appealed to them, one after another, going from left to right, with open palm, as though his life time had been spent in beggary.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer