mendicity
Example Sentences
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For Alexander it was just another day in the 1995 campaign, a marathon of mendicity that will do much to determine which G.O.P. hopefuls will survive to compete in the 1996 campaign.
From Time Magazine Archive
Feodora's mendicity would have provided an ample fund for their support, but unhappily that ingrate would hardly ever fetch home more than two or three shillings at a time.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
The Magdalen has probably too much of the abject expression of mendicity in her attitude; and, for a creature thus poor and prostrate, one is surprised to find her gazing upon a golden cross.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
It is interesting to note that mendicity was not looked upon with favour in those days, and that praiseworthy attempts were made to regulate it and restrain it within the narrowest possible limits.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur
In the rural districts vagrancy and mendicity still survive, in spite of constabulary forces and petty sessions.
From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne
