Usage examples for beggary
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Yet, like other Indian communities in the neighborhood of the whites, they had dwindled in numbers and prosperity, until they were reduced to twenty persons; who inhabited a cluster of squalid cabins, and lived by beggary and the sale of brooms, baskets, and wooden ladles, made by the women. – The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
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Hortense expects me to- morrow; she is in beggary. – Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac