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  • I have described their friendship in a little play called The Cat and the Moon; the speaker is a blind beggar-man, and Laban is a townland where Edward Martyn went to chapel: … ‘Did you ever know a holy man but had a wicked man for his comrade and his heart’s darling?

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I have described their friendship in a little play called The Cat and the Moon; the speaker is a blind beggar-man, and Laban is a townland where Edward Martyn went to chapel: … ‘Did you ever know a holy man but had a wicked man for his comrade and his heart’s darling?

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I have described their friendship in a little play called The Cat and the Moon; the speaker is a blind beggar-man, and Laban is a townland where Edward Martyn went to chapel: … ‘Did you ever know a holy man but had a wicked man for his comrade and his heart’s darling?

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I have described their friendship in a little play called The Cat and the Moon; the speaker is a blind beggar-man, and Laban is a townland where Edward Martyn went to chapel: … ‘Did you ever know a holy man but had a wicked man for his comrade and his heart’s darling?

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • The beggar-man led her out by the hand, and she was obliged to walk away on foot with him.

    Household Tales 2003

  • I have described their friendship in a little play called The Cat and the Moon; the speaker is a blind beggar-man, and Laban is a townland where Edward Martyn went to chapel: … ‘Did you ever know a holy man but had a wicked man for his comrade and his heart’s darling?

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I have described their friendship in a little play called The Cat and the Moon; the speaker is a blind beggar-man, and Laban is a townland where Edward Martyn went to chapel: … ‘Did you ever know a holy man but had a wicked man for his comrade and his heart’s darling?

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • It looked like an old beggar-man, walking wearily, leaning on a rough staff.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Elmwood, when we were out at recess and that poor old beggar-man who was nearly blind passed the play-ground, and dropped his cane into the ditch.

    Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past

  • He bought a number of new and beautiful lamps, disguised himself as an old beggar-man, and then, waiting until Aladdin was out hunting, he came to the windows of the Palace, crying out:

    Favorite Fairy Tales Logan Marshall

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