beggar

• It is not wonderful that both the cup and the beggar vanished; but we are to understand that the beggar was a troll. —  The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
• On this Portia affected to be affronted, and left the court, saying, "You teach me, sir, how a beggar should be answered Dear Bassanio," said Antonio, "let him have the ring; let my love and the great service he has done for me be valued against your wife's displeasure." —  Tales from Shakespeare
• Many a beggar is as lazy as if he had $10,000 a year, and many a man of large fortune is busier than his errand boy Forgetting this, some poor look upon the rich as enemies and desire to pillage their property, and some rich have only epithets for the poor. —  The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service
• Mélisande had been wounded,--"a tiny little wound that would not kill a pigeon;" yet her life is despaired of; and on her death-bed she has been delivered of a child--"a puny little girl such as a beggar might be ashamed to own--a little waxen thing that came before its time, that can be kept alive only by being wrapped in wool." —  Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score
• No! To feed a beggar is always foolish. —  The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays

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