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Beggar
"Beggar" in a Sentence (17 examples)
He is rich yet he lives like a beggar.
The poet was no richer than a beggar.
The beggar turned out to be a thief.
The beggar accosted me for money.
The beggar was dizzy with hunger and fatigue.
Once a beggar, always a beggar.
I gave the beggar what money I had.
I am no better than a beggar.
A freezing beggar was brought into the hospital for treatment. However, he didn't have even one cent with which to settle the bill.
He is no better than a beggar.
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“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.
I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
What does that silly beggar think he's doing?
`Now,' answered Ayesha, with proud humility - `now when my lord doth speak thus royally and give with so free a hand, it cannot become me to lag behind in words, and be beggared of my generosity.'
It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought.
Taking the ontological temperature of today and of the pre-revolutionary 18th century, Mr. Kundera finds that the speed we love has beggared us of pleasure.
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