beggar
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King Lear, bearing the brunt of a storm, looks at what he thinks is a mad beggar and wonders if “unaccommodated man” is no more than “a poor, bare, forked animal.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2025
"It's just garbage... the clothes you can't even wear, you wouldn't even give to a beggar," Akoth said.
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
But over the following years, purported sightings of Majorana multiplied: as a beggar in Naples, a monk in Calabria, and a vagabond in South America.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023
Francis has long said that true service and charity has to hurt, and that it’s not enough just to give a beggar a coin on the street.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2023
He did not belong to the bright landscape, he should be standing on the steps of a gaunt cathedral, his cloak flung back, while a beggar at his feet scrambled for gold coins.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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