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"And he will beggar you and your mother."

From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony

I tell you," said Givenaught, "you will beggar yourself yet with your insane squanderings of money upon what you choose to consider poor and worthy objects.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Twain, Mark

The meanest of these will beggar halfe a Kingdome.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

One should learn to be astonished at nothing in England of my heart, for it will beggar one's admiration.

From England of My Heart : Spring by Hutton, Edward

If I must pay the fine for the whole townland, it will beggar me—ruin me.

From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William