mendicant's

The town didn't have a post office as such, but after asking a couple of locals he was directed to the mendicant's lodge.

Sun of Suns 2006

The mendicant's life in service of the Lady of Beasts is not for you, I am thinking.

Spirit Gate 2006

In the hope of landing a fat consultancy contract with a confused minister or with a terror-stricken central banker, with a quadriplegic stock exchange or with a dying industry lobby, with sansculotte trade unions or with gullible Western NGOs - they gypsy around, living off tattered suitcases in shabby hotels, yearning to strike gold in the next station of their mendicant's journey.

The Expat Experts 2006

The mendicant's rags, it should be added, are from one of our most celebrated slop-shops in the Ratcliff Highway.

Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 Various

Miss Wardour, after some persuasion, mounted first, being carefully bound in the rude seat by means of Lovel's handkerchief and neckcloth, in addition to the mendicant's broad leathern belt passed about her waist.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Her face, pale and alive, smiled imploring in the mendicant's place.

Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Ben Hecht 1929

He went down to the beggar, reached forth a hand, and, to the far - away spectator's wonder-struck interpretation, seemed to thrust something, presumably a document, into the breast of the mendicant's shirt.

The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

But the charity asked for was not alms, but only the withdrawal from the mendicant's foot of a thorn which troubled him.

King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

From that time Francis wore mendicant's garb and begged his food in the streets.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

A shivering thrill runs through us as we catch a sight of the supreme mendicant's “sparkling eyes beneath their eyebrows 'ridge”:

Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904