"We are too much afraid of what we call beggary," said Adela. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
Yet neither is every kind of beggary an occasion of theft and perjury, as Solomon seems to add. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
"They might turn us from this shelter, true; they might leave us nothing but charity or beggary, that is sure enough. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance] Reference
It seemed a pleasant alternative to starvation and beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Best Left Unsaid: ch.02-03] Reference
"So beggary a house," wrote one of the officers, "I never see.". From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Kind friends, come and take me away ere I am reduced to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It promotes beggary, perpetuates pauperism, and stifles industry. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Waldstätten, who intervened just in time to save them from beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Ruin, squalor, and beggary now stalks through those once fair lands. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
Every thing in those fine countries seems to be boasting and beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
The cholera was behind him: trouble, beggary perhaps, was before him. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
The little one then was reduced to beggary as the estate was to be sold. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And poverty shall come to thee as a runner, and beggary as an armed man. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
Give me neither beggary, nor riches: give me only the necessaries of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
= That ... clapdish: = That keeps regal state, though sprung from beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
This brings beggary, trickery, and quarrelling, and ends in settled craft. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Many a one in this place was reduced to beggary and ruin through my means. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference
Shylock; for these orders are founded in beggary and supported by charity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The splendid robes of ecclesiastical Rome have a draggled fringe of beggary and vice. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Through your extravagance, and your husband's misfortunes, you are brought to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [The Boarding School Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils. Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.] Reference
Wet feet, mud, frost, hunger, or what you will; but not beggary: we cannot stand beggary!. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
But this was not sufficient for me, unless I could submit to see my son exposed to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
My money, my letters, every thing that stood between me and beggary were in the purloined trunks. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
We should then be put upon the strole again, and be oblig'd with shame to renew our former beggary. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter] Reference
Not one word is lisped about that terrible devil holding his court of beggary and crime in the Points. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The pride of his house has undone him, which the elder's knighthood must sustain, and his beggary that knighthood. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The fair-seeming bubble burst, and the rich man of one day found himself on the morrow virtually reduced to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
From this misfortune he had been obliged to sell, little by little, all he possessed, to live, and was reduced almost to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
He gives him that which is established and well known as a source of no good, but as tending to produce beggary and wretchedness. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
These feasts are as utterly disproportioned to the means of the givers as the Irish wakes which reduce whole families to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Lord Brougham objects to the railroad mania, on account of the beggary to be induced when the employment they give rise to is over. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
It will be seen that some of the artifices of beggary in that day were very similar to those with which we are now but too familiar. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
A few years later, the country was over-run by a brood of Italian usurers who battened on the inhabitants, reducing many to beggary. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
I aye keepit my he'rt up wi 'the notion that him doon-bye the coat belangs to wad hae made a match o't, and saved us a' frae beggary. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
These are black magicians, and while they may do a certain amount of harm, they become reduced, ultimately, to beggary and impotence. From Wordnik.com. [Within You is the Power] Reference
I am now almost reduced to beggary myself, and whatever I can get hold of is given to the children, so that they may enjoy themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Already, they say, hundreds of respectable persons had been reduced almost to beggary by the precarious condition of the planting interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Rome was full of contrasts, wealth and beggary, beauty and squalor, the palace of Caesar, and the haunt of vice and shame, were close together. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Princess Bethel was very miserable indeed, and taxed her subjects until they were all reduced to beggary in order to get the money to give him. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted Island] Reference
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