For this purpose I have been looking into Pliny's Letters, who is noted to have had the best grace in begging of all the ancients (I read him in the elegant translation of Mr. Melmoth); but not finding any case there exactly similar with mine, I am constrained to beg in my own barbarian way.

Could Vandyke have made a picture of him, swaying a ferula for a sceptre, which would have affected our minds with the same heroic pity, the same compassionate admiration, with which we regard his Belisarius begging for an obolum?

Dost thou not remember what that great black-bearded fellow told of his begging at the fair in York?" "Yea," said Little John, "but what told the friar of the harvest home in Kentshire?

"They go a begging to a bankrupt's door.

They had between them, as the result of much begging from parents and doing a little work occasionally, gathered together probably the most astonishing supply of firecrackers ever possessed by two boys of their size and degree of understanding.

"Mother sent me out a-begging with him," answered the gypsy boy.

Dressmakers and tailors still go a-begging among the Pueblo people, and no attention whatever is paid to Parisian dictators of fashion.

Cuddle up to my arm, Moll, and do you bring your fiddle, Kit, and let us try our luck a-begging in alehouses.

Faith, 'tis you who want, not I, my Lady I hear, you are gone a begging through the town; So, for your husband's sake, I'll take you in; For though I can't forget your scurvy usage, He was a very honest sort of fellow, Though mad as a March hare; so come you in.

She'll be off with the change of the wind; and I dare say a good hand wouldn't go a-begging aboard her just now.