Example Sentences

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But even supposing the case that one's friend has money, why, the presumption is, that he must have borrowed it himself; so that you are sponging upon his ingenuity, not his income.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

Stand by your swell friends, and toss it into my teeth that I and mine are sponging on you for a living, and you want your money.

From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by King, Charles