beggarly

How To Use beggarly In A Sentence

• He saw the true gold into which the beggarly matter of existence may be transmuted by spagyric art; a succession of delicious moments, all the rare flavors of life concentrated, purged of their lees, and preserved in a beautiful vessel. The Hill of Dreams
• V. i.45 (123,6) A beggarly account of empty boxes] Dr. Warburton would read, a _braggartly_ account; but _beggarly_ is probably right: if the Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
• Mongol that, in the morning, the cattle should be at hand; that they would be better than those Johnny had seen; and that Johnny's "beggarly" price of one pound of gold for six cattle would be accepted. Panther Eye
• For although we can perform outward works not commanded by God's Law [which Paul calls beggarly ordinances], yet the confidence that satisfaction is rendered God's Law [yea, that more is done than God demands] is vain and wicked. Apology of the Augsburg Confession
• The passage cited above is full of nostalgia for the ‘heroic’ days of his beggarly existence in Paris.
• Coleridge's attack on the "beggarly daydreaming" of romance reading noted that "the whole material and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving fantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose" (1975, 28). Reading Machines
• A beggarly tribute to all that is retrogressive, stupid, and mean.
• One of the beggarly, half-made societies of the world.
• Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
• Oh, ye crowds of rags and patches, frail, sinful and beggarly, what about it?