1 I must say, I like to serve a decayed gentleman better than a blarnerying beggar.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR 2 Later on the swineherd will bring me to the city disguised as a miserable old beggar.
3 Then Ulysses said, "Sir, I do not want to stay here; a beggar can always do better in town than country, for any one who likes can give him something."
4 Immediately afterwards Ulysses came inside, looking like a poor miserable old beggar, leaning on his staff and with his clothes all in rags.
5 Ulysses, therefore, went on his round, going from left to right, and stretched out his hands to beg as though he were a real beggar.
6 No other beggar or stranger has been allowed to hear what we say among ourselves; the wine must have been doing you a mischief, as it does with all those who drink immoderately.
7 Telemachus came first, and then after him, accompanied by the swineherd, came Ulysses, clad in rags and leaning on a staff as though he were some miserable old beggar.
8 He would try to make my children friendly to the little beggar: the darlings could not bear it, and he was angry with them when they showed their dislike.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXI 9 I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 10 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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 11 I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 12 I will say so much for you, though you have had the incivility to call me a beggar.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 13 He shook his head, and advised that Heathcliff should be let alone; affirming, if the truth were known, Hareton would be found little else than a beggar.
Wuthering Heights By Emily BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XVII 14 The impression was, A king lifting up a lame beggar from the earth.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER XI. 15 Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror, gave to this shocking beggar the two florins which he had received from the honest Anabaptist James.