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beggarly
1. The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe
2. Poland, where the feudal system still continues to take place, is at this day as beggarly a country as it was before the discovery of America
3. Spain and Portugal, the countries which possess the mines, are, after Poland, perhaps the two most beggarly countries in Europe
4. Though the system of laws which is connected with the bounty, has exactly the same tendency with the practice of Spain and Portugal, to lower somewhat the value of the precious metals in the country where it takes place; yet Great Britain is certainly one of the richest countries in Europe, while Spain and Portugal are perhaps amongst the most beggarly
5. Bold talk of war and business and wine and song drowned out the pained grunts and sneezes and coughs of the beggarly class
6. Have the exorbitant profits of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon augmented the capital of Spain and Portugal ? Have they alleviated the poverty, have they promoted the industry, of those two beggarly countries? Such has been the tone of mercantile expense in those two trading cities, that those exorbitant profits, far from augmenting the general capital of the country, seem scarce to have been sufficient to keep up the capitals upon which they were made
7. In every country where they take place, the tenants are poor and beggarly, pretty much according to the degree in which they take place
8. As for those magicians, you only see them in a state where they are defeated, stressed and beggarly
9. How be it at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods: but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn you back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto you desire to be in bondage over again? You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years
10. "I should never have expected that beggarly fool would have spent on this feast all the money she got from that other fool, Raskolnikov
11. And do you know what has worried me particularly for these three days? That I posed as such a hero to you, and now you would see me in a wretched torn dressing-gown, beggarly, loathsome
12. When he first got the job the wages were only a beggarly £2,000, but as he
13. And there he was at the end of his tether after having often painted the town tolerably pink without a beggarly stiver
14. And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste
15. "I had not! Therefore I did not want to go amongst those beggarly people accustomed to my generosity
16. But what about its future? Is the road ahead bright and prosperous? Or is it bleak and beggarly? Are there more people practicing Ben Graham’s underlying principles than there are bargains for them to find? Is there just too much money chasing a finite supply of bargains? Or might a serious security analyst still be able to prosper over time?
17. ‘And here, friend, the people are quite beggarly
18. "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's shoulders