Recovery is impossible for me, poor creature

Usage examples of mendicant.

Even if they were no more than mendicants and anchorites, he would join them gladly, for surely they would accept him simply for what he was.

I have been told, most of them delivered as their opinion that the archbishop, although exiled, could still remain governor of the archbishopric, but no mendicant religious could act thus, as they were prohibited by law.

I was a mudlark with the voice of a mendicant, the soul of a thief, and the heart of a waterfront whore.

The ravanastron is a common instrument with the mendicant friars of this order.

Among them are many high-toned and respectable families, whose pride shrinks from begging for bread, and who now live a life of penury and starvation rather than become the mendicant.

It is true they are in many instances, reduced to penury, but in their poverty are as different from the mendicant as the good are from the bad.

Among some of the religious mendicants in India there were some who were condemned to a life of chastity, and, in the hotter climates, where nudity was the custom, these persons traveled about exposing an enormous preputial ring, which was looked upon with adoration by devout women.

Beggars sat by church doors asking for alms, mendicant friars begged bread for their orders or for the poor in prison, jongleurs performed stunts and magic in the plazas and recited satiric tales and narrative ballads of adventure in Saracen lands.

Humiliated, impoverished, cut off from his family, the young man had shaved his head and become a mendicant monk.

Occasionally you see a heathen from the sunny isles away down in the South Seas, with his face and neck tatooed till he looks like the customary mendicant from Washoe who has been blown up in a mine.

Swiftly as he went, however, he could not escape the curse of the four blessed evangelists which the mendicant howled behind him.

Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the British bark Sophy Anderson, of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case.

The guard uncuffed their wrists and left them and they squatted and leaned against the wall with their blankets about their shoulders like mendicants.

You will each carry a plate in your hands to solicit alms, and you must walk together about the ball-room as a band of mendicants.

Yes, all the homosexuals and the celibates and the Mendicants are part of it.