beggardom

It was like a pantomime, to come suddenly out of beggardom into this orderly comfort.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

The beggardom of early days, the push and scramble for an income of later life — these had been the travesty.

The Way Home 2003

She saw, girl though she was, that beggardom and vice were twins.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

It was like a pantomime to come suddenly out of beggardom into this orderly comfort.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915

It was like a pantomime, to come suddenly out of beggardom into this orderly comfort.

The Dry-fly Fisherman 1915

It was like a pantomime, to come suddenly out of beggardom into this orderly comfort.

The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan 1907

It was a happy, care-free, gay, and kindly beggardom that he painted, with nothing in it to sadden the heart.

Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902

Off he would march, to continue his mendicant rounds, with the volume slipped into the pocket of his ragged coat; and although he would sometimes keep it quite a while, yet it came always back again at last, not much the worse for its travels into beggardom.

Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

She saw, girl though she was, that beggardom and vice were twins.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Elbert Hubbard 1885

It is a metropolis of beggardom, a mendicant's Mecca, a citadel of Jules

In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877