Usage examples for beggarly
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It was the fact of me; I am a beggarly person. – Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand
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He came to us in college with a beggarly allowance from an impoverished estate owned by his grandfather, a colonel of the Confederacy, who after the war had withdrawn with his widowed daughter to his worthless acres. – The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey
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Such a beggarly sum it is after all! – Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence