mendicity

We are far enough, in this case, from that mendicity which is understood as a means of existence and the essential condition of a life of idleness.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893

Every country where begging, where mendicity, is a profession, is ill governed.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The beggars of her neighbourhood avoid her like a pestilence; for while she walks out, protected by John, that domestic has always two or three mendicity tickets ready for deserving objects.

The Book of Snobs 2006

I let faireviews in on slobodens but ranked rothgardes round wrathmindsers: I bathandbaddend on mendicity and I corocured off the unoculated.

Finnegans Wake 2006

Yet there were times, sitting by his bath for hours, when I told him my life—the voyage to Illyria, the inspection of the depots of mendicity and the prisons, my days as the master of appeals—and I found my voice.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

That April of 1812 I visited sixty-five cities to inspect the houses of detention and the beggars in the depots of mendicity.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

That April of 1812 I visited sixty-five cities to inspect the houses of detention and the beggars in the depots of mendicity.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

I returned and the emperor told me he had seen my wife, Henriette, at court, then commanded me off on an inspection trip of the depots of mendicity throughout the empire.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

Yet there were times, sitting by his bath for hours, when I told him my life—the voyage to Illyria, the inspection of the depots of mendicity and the prisons, my days as the master of appeals—and I found my voice.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005

I returned and the emperor told me he had seen my wife, Henriette, at court, then commanded me off on an inspection trip of the depots of mendicity throughout the empire.

THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005