Sentence example with the word 'beggary'

beggary

absence, begging, deficiency, drought, gripe, imperfection, lack, mooching, neediness, pauperization, scrounging, starvation

Definition n. a solicitation for money or food

Last update: July 23, 2015


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On the death of Herod in 4 B.C. Archelaus kept open house for mourners as the Jewish custom, which reduced many Jews to beggary, prescribed.   [Please select]

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The heavy debts remained unpaid, and many opulent families were reduced to beggary.   [Please select]

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In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one.   [Please select]

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Deprived of everything, he wanders about in despair, reduced to beggary.   [Please select]

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A small point of doctrine might mean affluence or beggary to a man.   [Please select]

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"No; of the whole business, and the Getalls were reduced to comparative beggary."   [Please select]

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The tulip mania reduced, however, so many to beggary that it came as a stern warning.   [Please select]

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What is an immense fortune for a private gentleman is beggary for a prince.   [Please select]

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Save him from beggary.   [Please select]

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But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice.   [Please select]

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They were reduced to beggary and had to go forth daily upon the streets in search of stray bones and refuse that decent dogs and cats turned up their noses at.   [Please select]

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