beggary

Example Sentences

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Beggary was to be the portion of Yoémon, the destitution of the outcast.

From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

Beggary does not prevail in new countries, and but few old countries have managed to exist without it.

From North America — Volume 2 by Trollope, Anthony

Beggary within the family—and by the less self-respecting, without it—has thus grown into a custom and a scourge, and the dictionary teems with evidence of its abuse. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Beggary it literally was; for he was absolutely dependent upon others for the means of sustaining life.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James

Beggary exists in a form the most hideous: there is an organization of it with grades, and a sort of hierarchy.

From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park