beggar
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On the page, Miss Havisham's sick game is one of cards, a few rounds of Beggar My Neighbor that isn't fair or fun.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023
Probably the tightest is “Old Beggar Women,” by Avery Deutsch.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2020
HBO Asia is moving cautiously out of the gate, with two made-for-TV kung fu movies, “Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So” and “Master of the Shadowless Kick: Wong Kei-ying.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2016
Roy Harper played Les Cousins – he even recorded an album there in 1969 – and his first album, Sophisticated Beggar, drank deep from the same well.
From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2011
“No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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