beggary
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Victims of enclosure could toil as day laborers, work in the woolen industry, or turn to beggary and crime.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
“We started our drive against the menace of beggary three months back.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 27, 2017
Warren's present beggary is the catastrophe to overspending which U. S. municipalities do not seem capable of resisting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day a U.S. judge pronounced sentence: In Tokyo, where beggary had once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he appealed to them, one after another, going from left to right, with open palm, as though his life time had been spent in beggary.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
But generally his feeling was, 'I will finish this book, throw it at your feet, buy a rifle and spade, and withdraw to the Transatlantic Wildernesses, far from human beggaries and basenesses!'
From Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series by Macpherson, Hector Carsewell
He has expressed his intention of ridding Rome of its superfluous monks, those unattached ones who make life a burden by their importunings and beggaries in Rome.
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
