Rather than this shall be, Laertes goes on to bring well-born Beggars into the World, and every Twelvemonth charges, his Estate with at least one Year's Rent more by the Birth of a Child.
No one seems to have thought of the possible origin of this proverbial expression, as used in reference to the beggars from whose habits it is evidently derived.
Beggars were to be seen standing at the corners of all the streets, and along the highways.
The tone of this demand was, however, humble, such asbeggars would use.
The clerk pretended to give the three beggars a bezant, which was then a good sum of money, and they hastened joyfully to the next tavern, where they ordered a plentiful supper, and feasted to their hearts' content.
Ship of Fools," represents a party of the beggarswith which, either lay or ecclesiastical, the country was then overrun.
Whereas the little beggarsrun wild and rob my orchards, and I don't remember at this moment my parish schoolmaster's name.
Months rolled by, and one morning the royal heralds went forth and announced that "Good King Hagag" would give a feast a week from that day to all the beggars in the land.
I am but the servant of a troop of blind beggars to whom I act as guide.
From far and near came beggars in hundreds, to partake of the king's bounty, and Hagag stood among them, with his blind companions, in the courtyard of the palace waiting for his majesty to appear.
He wandered miserably from place to place until he fell in with some blind beggars who had been deserted by their guide.
During a halt overhearing the coarse language of the ostlers and the tipplers of the roadside pot-house: and besieged with beggars exposing their horrible mutilations.
These beggars were "briefed" or authorized by the Ecclesiastical Courts to collect alms and solicit aid at any church they might think fit, even at great distances away from their homes.
Touching like matter to the quick, I find a Tale how Frederick, At that time Emperor of Rome, Heard, as he went, a Clamour come From two poorBeggars on the way.
They occasionally disperse a bunch of young beggars who return to their posts as soon as the "cop" has vanished.
This monument is surmounted by the image of San Blas, the patron saint of Paraguay, in whose honor is celebrated on February 3d of each year an orgy that beggars description.
What more can the beggars ask for their sixpences than real drugs and dignity?
The dinner had been cleared off, except what was before the friar, who held out wonderfully, and the beggars and shulers were clawing and scoulding one another about the divide.
Don't let's start in life like beggars going to the back door for cold victuals; let's march right up the front steps and ring the bell like somebody.
No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o'clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge.
I'm hanged," he cried, "if the beggars are not right about it.
The beggars could not affect a metal casting with a form of words.
Yes, but what's the use, if all the little beggarsin Kenminster are to be let in to make them wild!
When hooded hawks sat overhead, And underfoot was straw Where hounds and beggars fought for bones Alternately to gnaw.
And now the dole that itt is delte, And all the beggars be gon away, Sauing Iohn Stewart, that seemed a beggar, And the ladye that was soe gay.
But if thou be a beggar, brother, Thou art a beggar that is vnknowne; Ffor thou art one of the stoutest beggars That euer I saw since I was borne.
What they lady sayd, Iohn Stewart writt, To Argyle Castle sent itt hee; His bagg and his dish and showing horne, Unto three beggars he gaue them all three.
Mademoiselle," said he, solemnly, "there are no beggarsin Corsica.
Oddly enough, the only two beggars I saw in the island both belonged to the category of cripples.
The crowd of beggars and tramps grew ever larger, and thus one decree followed close upon the heels of another to reduce, by the application of the severest punishments, the number of beggars and vagabonds.
The number of thieves, beggars and vagabonds was never larger than immediately before and after the Reformation.
This is the German greeting When men their fellows meet, The merchants in the market-place, The beggars in the street.
These privilegedbeggars were deprived of their immunity from arrest by the "Act for Punishment of Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdie Beggars" (39 Eliz.
Tramps and beggars passing by see a large house where possibly something may be begged or stolen.
I tell you the Beggars knew what they were about when they planted their watch-tower down in such a spot.
But we are too like theBeggars who built it to be very nice in our choosing," said Scarlett, smiling grimly down upon his two companions from the decaying rampart.
Most of the money we scatter to street beggars goes straight to the gin-shop, and even the very youngest children will buy or steal, to get the means of becoming intoxicated.
Every house has a paved court-yard for the ground-floor, into which donkeys may be driven and where beggars or peasants may wait, and where one naturally expects to find Gil Blas in one corner and Sancho Panza in another.
One pays six dollars a week at an excellent hotel, and there is nothing else to spend money on, except beggars and donkeys.
Yea, sir, and thanks; but we can give no cause for being called beggarsnor beggars' brats.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beggars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
