Lexicographical Neighbors of Begars
Literary usage of Begars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... traversing the Basque country ; but they had sworn, " by the oaks of begars
and by the blue ocean, to meet every spring at Whitsuntide on the square of ..."
2. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"be redressed : onlie he found the pore so manie & distressed that some convenience
must be for begars or els they wold starve. ..."
3. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"... yong hore by the head, & the old trot by the throte. 45 Diccon. Not one word,
Dame Chat, I say; not one word, for my cote ! Chat. Shall such a begars ..."
4. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"One asked why begars stood in the streets begging with broomes in their hands.
It was answered, because they did with them sweep away the durt out of ..."
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