We are not beggars.
They are vagrant beggars.
Her beauty beggars description.
The beggars cannot be choosers.
But real tramps are not beggars.
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
A good many of beggars are blind.
The streets abound with beggars and pickpockets.
The beauty of the scenery beggars description.
Teachers translate this sentence beggars can not be choosers.
To give money to beggars sometimes amounts to encouraging begging.
Instead, they've destroyed free enterprise and turned Africans into beggars.
The boss: little beggars! No money, not good.
Some beggars sponge money from passengers in the railway station.
There are quite a lot of beggars tramping around Jianghuai area in Anhui Province, out of natural, historical and social reasons, among whom Fengyang beggars are best known.
A senior official in Kano, the northern capital, says 2m of the 9m residents are beggars.
They made beggars of the children, but failed to make thieves of them.
He continued, as we proceeded, to rail against beggars with as much animosity as before.
Through this crowd of paupers and beggars, a beautiful coach passed now and again.
One can no longer walk the streets without seeing beggars importuning passersby.
There are no official figures about the number of beggars in Bangladesh. But numbers from independent researcher Pravash Chandra Das show that Dhaka, a city of 10 million, has about 100,000 beggars.
Pigs and naked children were everywhere underfoot, crippled beggars and cutpurses swarmed like roaches through the press.
The relief provided to vagrants and beggars by the relief stations is a temporary public relief measure.
As I take the subway to Wudaokou every day, I look at the beggars on the train.
If the helping offices of our city can do their jobs responsibly, there will be no beggars on the street.
She used to run an orphanage, a house for widows, and a hospital particularly for people who are beggars and cannot pay for their treatment.
"In Shanghai or Nanjing, beggars would help you and then ask for money," he recalls. "But in Chongqing, they'd grab food from your mout."
Police say all they hope for is an end to child beggars in the city, so the children are given time to enjoy their childhood at home.
It is a few beggars who block our way and say that they are asking for food, so that we can give them some convenience.
My solicitor has still not returned the contract; I wish she would stop playing silly beggars and get on with it.
Proverbs are the popular sayings that brighten so much Latin American talk, the boileddown wisdom that you are as apt to hear from professors as from peasants, from beggars as from élégantes.
The girl was taken off the carriage, and from afar she saw a group of beggars devouring their food pastries, nauseated enough, but still marching forward with short legs.
It (New York) has the poorest millionaires. the littlest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw. (O. Henry.
The girl summoned the boy to send away all the beggars, and stared at the woman who tied the young man's hands and tied the other end of the rope to the carriage. He stumbled along.
We are all beggars at the gate of the temple, and each one of us receives his share of the bounty of the King when he enters the temple, and when he goes out.
The utterly destitute, comprising 20 per cent, are the completely dispossessed, that is, people who have neither land nor money, are without any means of livelihood, and are forced to leave home and become mercenaries or hired labourers or wandering beggars.
To know whether a man really loves you, and not to be considerate to you when he is in a good mood. At this time, he will even be friendly to beggars and see if he still puts your feelings in the heart.
