beggarmen

No human face or voice greets us among that wooden crowd of kings and genies, sorcerers and beggarmen.

Memories and Portraits 2005

Convent, long since suppressed and its brothers exiled, a strong force of beggarmen waited for us, but a modest beggar-woman, old and sad, had withdrawn to the church door, where she shared in our impartial alms.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The population was so much absorbed in this that when we first crossed into the town, we found no beggar children even, though there were a few blind beggarmen, but so few that a boy who had one of them in charge was obliged to leave off smelling the river and run and hunt him up for us.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The beggarmen had waited in their places to give us another chance of meriting heaven; and at the church door still crouched the old beggarwoman.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

The population was so much absorbed in this that when we first crossed into the town, we found no beggar children even, though there were a few blind beggarmen, but so few that a boy who had one of them in charge was obliged to leave off smelling the river and run and hunt him up for us.

Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

The beggarmen had waited in their places to give us another chance of meriting heaven; and at the church door still crouched the old beggarwoinan.

Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

When we reached the entrance of the old Carthusian Convent, long since suppressed and its brothers exiled, a strong force of beggarmen waited for us, but a modest beggar-woman, old and sad, had withdrawn to the church door, where she shared in our impartial alms.

Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

The hills of the beacon-ridge beyond her home, and the line of stunted firs, which she had named "the old bent beggarmen," were visible in the twilight.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

The hills of the beacon-ridge beyond her home, and the line of stunted firs, which she had named "the old bent beggarmen," were visible in the twilight.

Rhoda Fleming — Complete George Meredith 1868

The hills of the beacon-ridge beyond her home, and the line of stunted firs, which she had named "the old bent beggarmen," were visible in the twilight.

Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868