beggardom
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of beggardom
Example Sentences
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It was a happy, care-free, gay, and kindly beggardom that he painted, with nothing in it to sadden the heart.
From Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People by Bacon, Mary Schell Hoke
She saw, girl though she was, that beggardom and vice were twins.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Hubbard, Elbert
Now it is over; I enter the nursery; I am going to have in my house the weaning of the future beggardom of England.
From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor
It was like a pantomime, to come suddenly out of beggardom into this orderly comfort.
From The Thirty-Nine Steps by Buchan, John
It is a metropolis of beggardom, a mendicant's Mecca, a citadel of Jules Richepin's cherished Gueux.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
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