mendicity

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Is he not patron of the Mendicity Society, patron of the Lying-in, Small Pox, Lock, and Fever Hospitals?

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Trollope, Anthony

The London Mendicity Society estimates that �100,000 is given away haphazard every year to street beggars, and that the average beggar probably earns more than the average working man.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston

There are in the Square various associations and societies, including the Mendicity Society, Indigent Blind Visiting Society, St. Paul's Hospital, and others.

From Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

Mendicity, punished among the Jews and nations of antiquity, i.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

Mendicity is all the more flourishing, as is apparent to every one.

From The Roman Question by About, Edmond