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Sentence Examples Odysseus is forced to box another beggar and is rewarded with blood pudding and wine when he wins. Secondly, how come on the day of the royal visit there wasn't one tramp or beggar to be found on the street? A just man maintains his life as a wretched beggar while another, stained by well known crimes, accumulates the highest honours. Here was Dodgson's archetypal beggar child, as modelled by Alice Liddell, who was six years old. The Yiddish language may have many, many expressions for one and the same thing, let's say for a beggar. He looks like a beggar, yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle. When people claim to be reincarnated, for some reason, they tend to have been the Queen of Sheba, and not some scrofulous beggar. She tells him that Odysseus will not come back and calls her maids in to bathe the beggar and give him finer clothing. He assumed that she was a wandering beggar who had come to beg for food and shelter. One young beggar, surnamed Liu, begins his work before dawn and can earn more than 200 yuan a day. If I give money to a beggar it is because I want to do something nice for him. How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or a beggar? He vaguely remembered his mother telling him those same words many years ago when he was giving spare lunch money to a beggar. So he never responds when a blind or crippled beggar or a mother cradling her baby holds out a hand for money. Woe to the poor beggar upon whom he sees, or thinks he sees, spots or blemishes. There were many a poor beggar who saw the show and realized they could become something if they tried! Not too much to beggar the family, but not too little as to be meaningless. They demands that families beggar themselves to send their children to university. The beggar man on the other hand was setting out, going from house to house gathering bottles. He would ask the beggar man to stay and work and he would pay him two shillings to pick the potatoes, so he made his offer. Show More Sentences A very interesting question about beggar my neighbor is whether there is an infinite game. In one of these caricatures there is a fashionable lady with a dirty beggar woman standing beside her. A beggar woman and her child took shelter on the verandah at night and left behind disquieting odours. Just this week I was rushing with many bags and did not stop to give a coin to the beggar woman, and it bothered me! The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers. Keeping her eye on the middle distance, she tripped over a beggar and fell, bruising her knees and elbows against the pavement. Why wouldn't my attention be attracted by that man, since he was a beggar or a tramp, a veritable rainbow of dark-colored rags? New Age prophets exhort their sheeplike followers to carry out all sorts of home truths that beggar the imagination of any thinking person. I could not understand why so often, in the literature of vagabondage, the vagrant beggar was described as a hypocrite. Disguised as a beggar, he moved from house to house, getting a bowl of brose here, the shelter of a barn there. The venerable abbot is himself a traitor, while Fan Dabei, the drunken beggar, turns out to be a warrior with a mission. Rather than playing a hero on his way up, Chow casts himself as a no-good beggar bent on joining a Shanghai gang. Indeed, in many cultures to be a musician is just a few steps above a beggar. This beggar had been asking the passers-by to take pity on him but all had gone past the unfortunate creature. If a king is seeking freedom from constraint through disguise, the greatest freedom is to be had through disguising himself as a beggar. In our country a successful beggar can earn more than a day laborer, because the tradition is to pay something to the beggars. He disguised himself as a beggar and asked the opinions of some of the people in his city. People who will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, will lay out ten to see a show. Or would he choose to beggar the kingdom, leaving it weak and defenseless against his forces, just for the entertainment? The cool million generally goes to some lucky beggar down south. Show More Sentences Now that he has put on Christ, he personates Him, so to speak, as a beggar in borrowed robes represents a king on the stage, walking as he also walked. Most of the time, you can spot a fake from a genuine beggar. He was remonstrating with a beggar and pointing at a photograph. Moreover, it would not only beggar our neighbours but eventually Australia as well, by preventing Australian businesses from competing effectively in global markets. The rear tyre got punctured, but with the help of a couple of menial workers and a beggar, my father was able to push the car to the tyre repair garage. Popular legend would have it that the cause of the plague was traced to an old beggar man, who was buried under a heap of stones by the infuriated populace. A beggar man one day called at the Dun and Brigid, being unable to find anything of value to give him, parted with her father's sword and sent him on his way. But things change when a woman beggar comes to the area and befriends him. Rather than return to jail after a weekend outside, Markov became a homeless man, cultivating the look of a madman in order to get more money as a beggar. The arrival of a beggar on an island is accounted a sinistrous event. She was no more than a poor beggar, young, sick and starving. A beggar slouches against a wall, his legs festering with open wounds. You might call him a beggar, or a homeless man, or whatever. Gabrielle Cummins is also utterly believable as the deranged beggar woman and her excellent performance is matched by great make up and costuming. Nearing the parking lot, I passed a beggar woman, her hand outstretched. Merlin appears not only as a sorcerer and a wise man but also as a trickster. Constantly, he appears before Arthur in disguise, as a child, a beggar, an old peasant. One winter's night, an old beggar woman in tattered grey clothes came to the castle and offered him a single perfect red rose in return for shelter from the bitter storm. In exchange, he will give the beggar clothes and cleanliness. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, and all that. The landays in I Am the beggar of the World are sung only when men are absent. Show More Sentences I am the beggar of the World is a book of poems, war reportage, and photographs. An elderly woman hands him twenty copecks, thinking he is a beggar. Economically, they will learn of the toll that nuclear weapons can take on economic growth and development even if they do not beggar us completely. As soon as Balquherrie got his turn served, away he went and never fashed his thumb about his debt, that he knew would beggar honest folk. The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain. Loverless and inexpectant of love, I was as safe from spies in my heart-poverty, as the beggar from thieves in his destitution of purse. The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup. In the second story, Columba met a beggar in Lochaber who had a wife and children. Columba asked the beggar to fetch him a stick from the forest, and the poor man did so. Athena disguises Odysseus as a wandering beggar so he can see how things stand in his household. Accompanied by Eumaeus, Odysseus returns to his own house, still pretending to be a beggar. This is best seen when Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, begs Antinous, one of the suitors, for food and Antinous denies his request. A Sikh is encouraged not to live as a recluse, beggar, monk, nun, celibate, or in any similar vein. Walker, according to legend, entered Huntsman's works in the disguise of a starving beggar asking to sleep by a fire for the night. As I was travellin' through Lecale, I heered from a beggar a slowsome tale. Hamza said that the criminal negligence of the previous rulers with regard to solving the national problems had made the nation a beggar. I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! Bearing in mind the mess that Britain is in, due in large part to the actions of bankers, that kind of reward continues to beggar belief. Other traditional tale elements, such as the beautiful maiden to be married and the schnorrer or visionary beggar, enhance curiosity and anticipation. Examples from Classical Literature Uncle Ulick shook his fist at a particularly importunate beggar who had ventured across the forecourt. He had, like Hadji the beggar, become in twenty-four hours again a drifter. Just at that time there came up behind him a poor moujik, who felt sorry for the beggar, and gave him a copeck. As I treated her like a beggar, she shook her hand-basket, and there was money inside of it. It does not require a professional beggar or a licensed guide to identify him. And is not the whole land like a beggar on horseback riding post to the Davil? The feelings of the unfortunate Theodora were such as to beggar description. The beggar was none other than Inari himself, and the woman's generosity was rewarded in due season by the birth of a child. I do not know what your means may be, but this I do know, that if you were a Croesus, you would be a beggar. The tattered cloak of the beggar will bear him up like the rayed plumes of the angels. Do two Americans, a half-breed beggar, and a local coachman get sunstruck at one and the same time? If the beggar comes in suddenly, and starts to prance, I'll rip him up and be done with it! The true beggar, as I have said, is not often annoyed by these pestilent callers. It is impossible to tell whether the dirty old man who slouches along the street is a millionaire or a beggar. Ragged as a beggar of Murillo's, courteous as a hidalgo by Velasquez, he added a grace and an epicurism completely French. I daresay that body's the vera deevil himsell in the shape o' the auld papish beggar! He cannot exist, except as a beggar, unless he puts himself in the condition to become an exchanger. A youth named MAO pays all his money to have the body of a beggar interred. I don't care what you do, so long as I give this little beggar a trouncing. Must a man be a beggar because he is run over, or because he is half blind? Show More Sentences Is there woman on middle earth this night, Maude, poorer beggar than I, or more bemired? He recognizes the pachydermatous skin of the beggar boys in the dark and wrinkled envelope of the old oaks. He wanted advice, he wanted to be confirmed in his own opportunism, as a starving beggar may want food. I'm a bit miffed about the album category, but beggars can't be choosers and I am a beggar. He fell down prostrate and basked in him as a Neapolitan beggar does in the sun. In fifteen years when they let me out of prison I will trudge off to him, a beggar, in rags. The swineherd shall lead me disguised as an old beggar to my palace. We are approached by a legless soldier beggar in a faded German uniform. Let him pay, the beggar, its his own fault, and Ill give him a talking-to. Mind ye, lad, her sayin' thot all av France needed a beggar like me! There was a brisk wind blowing, and the beggar turned about to face it, directly they had unhanded him. And potter is angry with potter, and craftsman with craftsman, and beggar is jealous of beggar, and minstrel of minstrel. Thou canst not even skin him properly, little beggar brat, and forsooth I, Buldeo, must be told not to singe his whiskers. An armless beggar was turning the crank of an organ with his bare feet. I can only attribute it to the love interest associated with the beggar. The beggar stood sturdily in his tracks contenting himself with beating off the attack. Whereupon the beggar drew his bow with seeming carelessness and split the wand with his shaft. And now we will see what befell Robin Hood in his venture as beggar. In reply he offers me, as if I were a beggar, employment for my sons. In Ithaca was a beggar named Irus, gluttonous and big-boned but a coward. Show More Sentences A beggar met him one day on the brae, and got a shilling from him. You don't know her, you know, nor the old beggar either, by Jove! A beggar is not etymologically one who begs, or a cadger one who cadges. My father died in that faith, Monsieur, but chevet called me a beggar. I am no compromiser, no treaty-maker, no haggler, no beggar. The owner of it was none other than the kind-hearted gaunt grey beggar who had given the Prince the bag of bread-crumbs and the hare. Do not dole out money to your wife as though she were a beggar. I must say, I like to serve a decayed gentleman better than a blarnerying beggar. She told me that in her village at home there was an old beggar woman who went about selling herbs and roots she had dug up in the forest. When you take the liberty of calling me mean or base, or anything of that sort, you are an impudent beggar. I imagine he did not think I was a beggar, but only an eccentric sort of lady, who had taken a fancy to his brown loaf. That I flatly refused to do, for it would have made a beggar of me. The man uncovered it, and it was seen to be that of Saint Martin on his horse, dividing his cloak with the beggar. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. Ignatius answered that it was true that he had given them to a beggar. There were three awake, the beggar, a villein, and the youngest soldier. His own father therefore, disowns him for ever and ever, as a unnat'ral young beggar. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. The thought that the beggar had started to prance darted through his mind. The others saw the point of this, and felt better directly, despite their itching desire to get hold of the beggar again. Show More Sentences In tale or history your beggar is ever the first antipode to your king. Trefusis retorted that the fact of a man paying a thousand pounds for a portrait proved that he had not earned the money, and was therefore either a thief or a beggar. Seeing that it was useless to struggle, the beggar began to parley. The reader has, probably, not forgotten the impudent beggar who had been clinging fast to the fringes of the cardinal's gallery ever since the beginning of the prologue. He positively danced, the bloodthirsty little gingery beggar. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another. And as he spoke he tried to loosen the grasp of the blind beggar. Know you not, lout, vagabond, beggar, that were it not for the might that she infuses into my arm I should not have strength enough to kill a flea? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of beggar? Words that rhyme with beggar What is the past tense of beggar? What is the plural of beggar? What is the adverb for beggar? What is the adjective for beggar? What is the noun for beggar? Translations for beggar Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Begg begetting begetteth begetters begetter begets beggar belief beggared beggarliness beggarly beggar-my-neighbour beggars 6-letter Words Starting With b be beg begg begga