You see Miss Jaynes is a nateral-born beggar.

The beggar's dog and widow's cat, Feed them, and thou wilt grow fat.

The beggar's rags fluttering in air, Does to rags the heavens tear.

Almer, beggar.

"Put a beggar on horseback," she cried, when she read the invitation, "and you know where he will ride to!

It was the Pommard which induced the beggar to make up his mind.

However, as I have said, Lord Palmerston effectually cleared Crockford's, and it almost seemed, from the evidence of those who knew Crockford's best, that they never played anything there but old-fashioned whist for threepenny points, patience, and beggar-my-neighbour.

One would think I was a beggar, notam I ill-looking, repugnant?

This is the goblet from whose brink All creatures that have life must drink: Foemen and lovers, haughty lord And sallow beggar with lips abhorred.

The Frankish church was reared upon the spot where, in pagan times, one bitter winter day, a Roman soldier parted his mantle with his sword and gave half of the garment to a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and stone what was called the divine spirit of giving, whose unbelieving exemplar afterward became a saint.

It was a string-talk letter, that we'd learned the way of it from a blind beggar in the Punjab.

By this hand, thou art not a man fit to table at an ordinary, keep knights company to bawdy-houses, nor beggar thy tailor. WEN.

First draw him into bands for money, then to dice for it; then take up stuff at the mercer's; straight to a punk with it; then mortgage his land, and be drunk with that; so with them and the rest, from an ancient gentleman make him a young beggar.

Never from hence acknowledge you his wife: Where others strive t'enrich their father's name, It should be his only aim to beggar ours, To spend their means should be his only pride: Which, with a sigh confirm'd, he's rid to London, Vowing a course,[380] that by his life so foul Men ne'er should join the hands without the soul.

O (to my grief I speak it), you shall find There's no more difference in a tavern-haunter Than is between a spital and a beggar.

Your brother means to lame as many as he can, that when he is a beggar himself, he may live with them in the hospital.

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.

Thou hast made my life a beggar in this world, And I will make thee bankrupt of thy breath:

BUT. 'Sfoot, when you ha't, 'tis but a threadbare coat, And there 'tis for you: know that I scorn To wear his livery is so worthy born, And live[s] so base a life; old as I am, I'll rather be a beggar than your man,

One day, as the king and the chancellor were riding together in the streets of London, they observed a beggar, who was shivering with cold.

The chancellor defended himself for some time; and they had both of them liked to have tumbled off their horses in the street, when Becket, after a vehement struggle, let go his coat; which the king bestowed on the beggar, who, being ignorant of the quality of the persons, was not a little surprised at the present

If I have to be a beggar by the roadside, I shall none the less marry Eugenie de Choiseul or no one.'

A SORDID RICH MAN Is a beggar of a fair estate, of whose wealth we may say as of other men's unthriftiness, that it has brought him to this: when he had nothing he lived in another kind of fashion.

A COURT BEGGAR Waits at Court, as a dog does under a table, to catch what falls, or force it from his fellows if he can.

He always undervalues what he gains, because he comes easily by it; and, how rich soever he proves, is resolved never to be satisfied, as being, like a Friar Minor, bound by his order to be always a beggar.