mendicants

Amongst minor offences, apart from that evasion of supervision which is no more than a legal condition, there are, both in France and in Italy, very frequent cases of relapse by vagabonds and mendicants, which is a consequence of social environment, as well as of the feeble organisation of the individuals.

Criminal Sociology 1899

We do not call mendicants and those who perform the rituals as Guru.

Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

They were "mendicants," [24] who possessed no property but lived on the alms of the charitable.

Early European History Hutton Webster

If "mendicants" are known to be liars, why could not "false pretences" be omitted?

Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

I may not endure such words: since neither was Paul ashamed to be continually troublesome upon such points as these and to speak words such as mendicants use.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

Naturally, unlike those talented but unfortunate "underground" musicians and the thousands of mendicants begging in the subways I had no interest in getting any other "reward" than the response and occasional verbal appreciation of those who joined in song, danced, or just listened.

Joel Shatzky: A Tale of Two Nations Joel Shatzky 2011

Some of you, or those to come after you, will be mendicants and wanderers, teaching the chronicles of Earth and the canticles of the Crucified to the peoples and the cultures that may grow out of the colony groups.

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010

President O has followed it up with announcing $75 billion to "stem foreclosures" and serial corporate mendicants GM and Chrysler have asked for another $21 billion in aid.

After you cough up $800 Billion, everything else is just chump change 2009

The spending benefits a minority of civil service workers and a class of chronic and incurable mendicants.

The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13 2010

Naturally, unlike those talented but unfortunate "underground" musicians and the thousands of mendicants begging in the subways I had no interest in getting any other "reward" than the response and occasional verbal appreciation of those who joined in song, danced, or just listened.

Joel Shatzky: A Tale of Two Nations Joel Shatzky 2011