beggars

Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched heroes the beggars’ shadows.

Act II. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1914

V. ii.48 (251,8) Worth many babes and beggars] Why, death, wilt thou not rather seize a queen, than employ thy force upon _babes_ and _beggars_.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

If they see a chance to get something free, they probably just asked…hence, the term beggars, and maybe someone got tired of it and “chased them” into the frame of this shot.

Photos of Japan, 1951 2006

I well remember the pair of them, toward the last, worn and feeble, in beggars 'rags, with beggars' bowls, sunning themselves side by side on the cliffs, telling old stories and cackling shrill-voiced like children.

Chapter 15 2010

The City had done a serious effort to take out beggars from the streets, yet the very cold streets were lined with immobile figures frozen in submissive, pleading positions.

Why Does Homelessness Persist in Rich Liberal Cities?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Jesus demands that the people look to their deeds before all else, reviles wealth and importance, insists that the lowliest, least superficially deserving of beggars is more readily accepted by God than those who trumpet achievement and virtue.

He Ain’t Heavy « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

Jesus demands that the people look to their deeds before all else, reviles wealth and importance, insists that the lowliest, least superficially deserving of beggars is more readily accepted by God than those who trumpet achievement and virtue.

2010 April « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

But to assume that all Mexicans are beggars is to do the country a terrible disservice.

Mexicans are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met 1997

Men of science they call beggars, and the indigent they reproach for their wretched raggedness.

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Various

I well remember the pair of them, toward the last, worn and feeble, in beggars 'rags, with beggars' bowls sunning themselves side by side on. the cliffs, telling old stories and cackling shrill-voiced like children.

Chapter 15 1915