mendicity

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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 Bierce, Ambrose

"Sir," said my father shortly, "I never encourage peripatetic mendicity."

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

The Pontifical Government encourages mendicity by the protection of its agents, and recommends it by the example of its friars.

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond

Religions mendicity has hitherto been the great safety valve through which the unquiet transition spirit has found vent under our strong and settled government.

From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by Sleeman, William