The way my efforts were nipped in the bud simply beggars description.

Whatever it is, it is within his desert, for what is observed of some creatures that at the same time they trade in productions three stories high, suckling the first, big with the second, and clicketing for the third: a committee-man is the counterpoint, his mischief is superfoetation, a certain scale of destruction, for he ruins the father, beggars the son, and strangles the hope of all posterity.

take by surprise &c (be unexpected) 508. be wonderful &c adj.; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.

Even if we quite overlook its pre-personal ancestry, still the roots it has in its immediate author will be of unmeasured depth, and it will still proceed toward its consummate form by energies and assiduities that beggar the estimation of all ordinary toil.

Oxford and Cambridge were then in their glory,crowded with poor students from all parts of England, who came to study Greek and Latin and read theology, not to ride horses and row boats, to put on dandified airs and sneer at lectures, running away to London to attend theatres and flirt with girls and drink champagne, beggaring their fathers and ruining their own expectations and their health.

How much better were it for our matrons to do as she did, to go civilly and decently, [5038]Honestae mulieris instar quae utitur auro pro eo quod est, ad ea tantum quibus opus est, to use gold as it is gold, and for that use it serves, and when they need it, than to consume it in riot, beggar their husbands, prostitute themselves, inveigle others, and peradventure damn their own souls?

The blockade had not yet pinched the affluent, nor beggared the industries of the well-to-do.

It beggars the laborer, breaks the heart of the anguished wife, and starves the helpless children.

But the appetites and affections common to humanity had not been left out of my heart, though I had been beggared all my life in regard to most of them.

But I must to the Parliment, and then Ile have a clause to beggar some rich men.

From these crabs will I gather sweetness: wherein I'll imitate the bee, that sucks her honey, not from the sweetest flowers, but [from] thyme, the bitterest: so these having been the means to beggar my master, shall be the helps to relieve his brothers and sister.

He had tortured and beggared all his neighbours; but he bore them no malice for it.

One man is beggaring his posterity to build a house, which when finished he never will inhabit; another is levelling mountains to open a prospect, which, when he has once enjoyed it, he can enjoy it no more; another is painting ceilings, carving wainscot, and filling his apartments with costly furniture, only that some neighbouring house may not be richer or finer than his own.

The nearer the beggar the greater the prejudice.

Some idea of the magnificence of these displays, which beggared the royal privy-purse, drove household-treasurers mad, and often left poet and machinist whistling for pay, may be gathered from the fact that a masque sometimes cost as much as two thousand pounds in the mechanical getting-up, a sum far more formidable in the days of exclusively hard money than in these of paper currency.

There is a common thought that beggars sympathy in almost every shallow mind.

Take heed; if she be a slut, thou wilt loathe her; if proud, she'll beggar thee, so "she'll spend thy patrimony in baubles, all Arabia will not serve to perfume her hair," saith Lucian; if fair and wanton, she'll make thee a cornuto; if deformed, she will paint.

Beyond all, let her cordially join this country in urging upon the Spanish Government, known to be nowise averse to the urgency of a wise revision and an enlightened modification of the obsolete principles of an absurd and impracticable policy both fiscal and commerciala policy which beggars the treasury, whilst utterly failing to protect native industry, and demoralizes at the same time that it impoverishes the people.

One should learn to be astonished at nothing in England of my heart, for it will beggar one's admiration.

She can beggar the Wealthy, and degrade the Noble.

The guns in the nacelle, too, were chattering; the Haram filled itself with a wild turmoil; the scene beggared any attempt at description, there under the blistering ardor of the Arabian sun.

He calls them, "abominable bills, for enslaving and beggaring the clergy, (which took their birth from hell)."