beggared

A doorway in the heavens-the idea beggared reason.

The Dragons at War Weis, Margaret 1996

(It wasn't exactly "beggared" a one that he said, but that is near enough.) "D'ye mean to tell me," said Captain Rush (as he frothed with wrath),

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

In May, 1593, sick, and 'tumbled down the hill by every practice,' he would go on exclaiming against the administrative blunders which had let England be baffled and 'beggared' by a nation without fortifications, and, for long, without effective arms.

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

As every one who had an opinion to give was bawling it out at the very top of his voice, whilst those who had none contented themselves by shouting vague sentences devoid of particular meaning of any kind, the noise and tumult were such as beggared description.

Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835

Writing that he had watched Wednesday's "Talking Points Memo," Sullivan wrote that it was "so full of meaningless cliches about 'big government' and 'progressives,' so divorced from any coherent engagement with the reality of Obama's record and stated views, that it beggared belief" (video below).

Andrew Sullivan: Bill O'Reilly Is A Dishonest Propagandist Jack Mirkinson 2010

Writing that he had watched Wednesday's "Talking Points Memo," Sullivan wrote that it was "so full of meaningless cliches about 'big government' and 'progressives,' so divorced from any coherent engagement with the reality of Obama's record and stated views, that it beggared belief" (video below).

Andrew Sullivan: Bill O'Reilly Is A Dishonest Propagandist Jack Mirkinson 2010

The take a break itself beggared all description: a gourmet as good as gourmand's delight!

Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009

He suggested that if Dr Skuse was wrong about his claimed findings of nitro-glycerine traces, that would mean he had wasted most of his professional life; if the mens' confessions were false and had been signed because of brutality, the enormity of the conspiracy within two police forces beggared belief.

The Birmingham Six: Have we learned from our disgraceful past? 2011

The take a break itself beggared all description: a gourmet as good as gourmand's delight!

Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

They wish that the coalition would stop trying to buy oldie votes with free bus passes and fuel allowances and so on we've had more than our share of lollipops in the boom part of the cycle and concentrate on the under-30s, whose futures have already been mortgaged and beggared by my generation to pay for the bust.

Women and the Tories: Look inwards before telling us to 'calm down, dear' 2011