beggar,

I had been giving one night an entertainment to some of the genteelest company in Dublin, and was showing my Lord Marquess downstairs with a pair of wax tapers, when I found a woman in a grey coat seated at my doorsteps: to whom, taking her for a beggar,

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

‘He deserves nothing better,’ answered the beggar,

The Pink Fairy Book 2003

Once riding through London with Henry, the King seeing a wretched, shivering beggar,

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various

Alcinoos gives Odysseus a ship which conveys him to Ithăca, where he assumes the disguise of a beggar,

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

` Unless he could find ten times as much, 'said the beggar,

The Antiquary 1845

` ` If it were a secret o 'mine, Monkbarns,' replied the beggar,

The Antiquary 1845

In appearance this man was a beggar, but not the Parisian beggar,

The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824

In appearance this man was a beggar, but not the Parisian beggar,

Ferragus Honor�� de Balzac 1824

A Queen does not swagger, nor get drunk like a beggar,

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

"It was auld Elspeth Mucklebackit that sent me here," said the beggar,

The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801