What is "beggary"

Usage examples of "beggary".

Had not a momentary impulse tempted me to sing my favorite ditty to the harpsichord, to beguile the short interval, during which my hostess was conversing with her visitor in the next apartment, I should have speeded to New-York, have embarked for Europe, and been eternally severed from my friend, whom I believed to have died in phrenzy and beggary, but who was alive and affluent, and who sought me with a diligence, scarcely inferior to my own.

For it is not want the avenger of iniquity, nor the adverse fortune of your parents, nor violent necessity that has thus oppressed you with beggary, but a devout will and Christ-like election, by which ye have chosen that life as the best, which God Almighty made man as well by word as by example declared to be the best.

I dare say, if I examine your beggary that it will also be as little able to stand the test.

When I saw Parma my national prejudice spoke in his favour, and I asked him what misfortune had reduced him to beggary.

The icey winds blew their cold message as he saw, not a palm of beggary but a claw coming to drag him to the fiery pit of the god of fire.

They, with other nobles, seized the unenclosed lands of the country and fenced them in for sheep pastures, thus driving into beggary many who had formerly got a good part of their living from these commons.

Felix had not failed to make enemies in the Brickfields by his youthful intolerance of idleness, beggary, and drunkenness.

He wore a round hat with a narrow brim and he was among every kind of man, herder and bullwhacker and drover and freighter and miner and hunter and soldier and pedlar and gambler and drifter and drunkard and thief and he was among the dregs of the earth in beggary a thousand years and he was among the scapegrace scions of eastern dynasties and in all that motley assemblage he sat by them and yet alone as if he were some other sort of man entire and he seemed little changed or none in all these years.

It is because I see how professional and contented beggary monopolises so much effort and costs so much money.

The Kemper will reduce me to beggary among the public houses of Bhrathairain for this failure, but he will not therefore spare you.

It always seemed to me almost a pity to rout out this asylum of praying and charitable women, whose occupation was the encouragement of beggary and idleness in others, but whose prayers were constant, and whose charities to the sick of the little city were many.