beggarman

"I called about that beggarman, Boone -- the one who was charged with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee."

Sole Music 2010

The people all knew Barnaby, and the children of the place came flocking round him — as she remembered to have done with their fathers and mothers round some silly beggarman, when a child herself.

Barnaby Rudge 2007

Among the fauna of this planet, which already embraces the pretty soldier and the terrifying Irish beggarman, is, or is not, the child to expect a Bluebeard or a Cormoran?

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

When she seized off a beggarman a-begging of his bread

The Old Cow 1997

Daft Joey was a beggarman that lived beneath the bridge-he had nay teeth, and he ate rotten fish and floating dung from the river, and he stank worse than a blackbirder's hold.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

"So they palavered for a bit, " Bonnet went on, -and the beggarman began to make noise, for he wanted more drink.

Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

White, Black, and Red; Papist, Puritan, and Presbyterian; rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief -- we all live under the same laws.

Seventh Son Card, Orson Scott 1987

"I called about that beggarman, Boone -- the one who was charged with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee."

Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1963

Homer was a blind beggarman singing his snatches of song for the dole of charity; grand old Socrates, oracle of wisdom, many a day went without his dinner because he had not the wherewithal to get it, while teaching the youth of

How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin

"I called about that beggarman, Boone -- the one who was charged with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee."

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950