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

As Governor of Hunan he reduced the province to a state of beggary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next day a U.S. judge pronounced sentence: In Tokyo, where beggary had once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park.

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