beggar-woman

The 51-year-old Shakespeare also does nothing to save the life of a beggar-woman (played sympathetically by Michelle Tate); and is so cold to his daughter Judith (a terrifically hard, scary Catherine Cusack) that she ignores his still-warm body (suicide by poison) to search his papers for a new, more favorable will.

Moving but Muddled 'Bingo' in Chichester 2010

He looks all noble and honest, but over in the corner of the painting there's a starving beggar-woman who undercuts any idealisation of peasant life.

Archive 2006-05-01 Hal Duncan 2006

He looks all noble and honest, but over in the corner of the painting there's a starving beggar-woman who undercuts any idealisation of peasant life.

The Fanfiction Kerfuffle Hal Duncan 2006

The Angel of God, in the guise of an old beggar-woman, descends into their garden, and she drags away, by an invisible chain, "the little gnawing thing," the pathetic lame child.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

The Angel of God, in the guise of an old beggar-woman, descends into their garden, and she drags away, by an invisible chain, "the little gnawing thing," the pathetic lame child.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

When years had passed away, some travellers came home from Italy, and said that in the town of Pavia they had seen a ragged beggar-woman, who had once been handsome, but was then shrivelled, bent, and yellow, wandering about the streets, crying for bread; and that this beggar-woman was the poisoning

A Child's History of England 2007

The day before yesterday he carried a poor old beggar-woman in his arms from the high road to the hospital.

A Month in the Country 2006

My Lady Theo is polite to a beggar-woman, treats her kitchenmaids like duchesses, and murmurs a compliment to the dentist for his elegant manner of pulling her tooth out.

The Virginians 2006

Cophetua could share his throne with a beggar-woman without sullying its splendour or diminishing its glory.

The Three Clerks 2004

I should have thought she was a beggar-woman, only for her good clothes.

Adam Bede 2004