beggar-girl

Of these three photographs, the one of the beggar-girl—in which Alice's expression is both calculating and tenacious, her hand cupped to receive the alms that are her due—inspires his most imaginative reading.

Of Camera Lenses and Looking-Glasses Charles E. Pierce Jr. 2011

In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a porte-cochere.

Les Miserables 2008

And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where the scarf became a shawl once more.

Les Miserables 2008

And when his mistress-daughter-in-law had passed away, Shchurov took into his house a dumb beggar-girl, who was living with him to this day, and who had recently borne him a dead child.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

Once, a young, impoverished beggar-girl named Nan Killian had obtained leftovers at the back gate, and most of the other waifs and gutter-rats of the neighborhood shunned the place, though they gladly shared in Nan's bounty when she dared the gate and its guardian.

Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

She loves to go into the kitchen and mess, she hates to study, and said right before the Vincents that she should think it would be great fun to be a beggar-girl, to go round with a basket, it must be so interesting to see what you 'd get.

An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

When his father made the request of him that he made of his other sons, Prince Merlin bowed and extended his arm to the beggar-girl, but he was as silent as a wood before a storm.

The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl

Then she put on the gown she had worn as a beggar-girl, and her wooden shoes, and let her hair down over her shoulders.

The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl

He asked all the attendants, but no one had seen her, and when enquiry was made of the porter, he said that no one had gone out of the palace except a poor ragged beggar-girl.

The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations Unknown

"Dance with yourself, beggar-girl," and he had the heralds proclaim that this stranger who wore brown wool in court would go on the floor alone.

The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl