bull-beggars

` ` In the name of Saint Bennet, the prince of these bull-beggars, '' said Front-de-Buf, ` ` have we

Ivanhoe 1892

"In the name of Saint Bennet, the prince of these bull-beggars," said

Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

In short, whether by secret connivance or encouragement from their master, or out of their own liquorish affection to gold, or both, it is certain they were no better than a sort of sturdy, swaggering beggars; and where they could not prevail to get an alms, would make women miscarry and children fall into fits; who to this very day usually call sprites and hobgoblins by the name of bull-beggars.

A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706

“In the name of Saint Bennet, the prince of these bull-beggars,” said Front-de-Boeuf, “have we a real monk this time, or another impostor?

Ivanhoe 2004

"'" Witches, wizards, elves, gnomes, bull-beggars, fiends, an 'devils is debarred the Bloo Grass Country, "says Squar' Alexanders, speakin 'for himse'f an' his fellow selectmen, "an 'they're not goin' to be allowed to hold their black an 'sulphurous mass meetin's yere."

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

“I don't like yer housen; they are full of bull-beggars and catamounts.

Margaret 1851

"In the name of Saint Bennet, the prince of these bull-beggars," said Front-de-Boeuf, "have we a real monk this time, or another impostor?

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819