Sentence Examples

1. I have said virtue, wealth, and generosity, because a great man who is vicious will be a great example of vice, and a rich man who is not generous will be merely a miserly beggar for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing it, but by spending it, and not by spending as he pleases, but by knowing how to spend it well.
2. Not half an hour, nay, barely a minute ago, I saw myself lord of kings and emperors, with my stables filled with countless horses, and my trunks and bags with gay dresses unnumbered and now I find myself ruined and laid low, destitute and a beggar, and above all without my ape, for, by my faith, my teeth will have to sweat for it before I have him caught and all through the reckless fury of sir knight here, who, they say, protects the fatherless, and rights wrongs, and does other charitable deeds but whose generous intentions have been found wanting in my case only, blessed and praised be the highest heavens!
3. He looked like a beggar, and Sam felt his blood rising.
4. He slipped between a loaded dung cart and two beggar boys.
5. I could be, say, a Jewess or a Spanish dancer or an Italian heiress or a coal-eyed beggar girl.
6. I am still a Samana, he thought, I am still an ascetic and beggar.
7. Know you not, lout, vagabond, beggar, that were it not for the might that she infuses into my arm I should not have strength enough to kill a flea?
8. The impression was a king lifting up a lame beggar from the earth.
9. He was successful at first and started wondering why he should work at all, when it was so easy and restful to be a beggar.
10. Welcome was the merchant who offered him linen for sale, welcome was the debtor who sought another loan, welcome was the beggar who told him for one hour the story of his poverty and who was not half as poor as any given Samana.