Word: beggar
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...this beggar, think him right...
...road gang. Buck Merritt gets his pardon just then and comes back for Angel and Little Buck. The primitive feelings of mountain people are conscientiously concentrated, but drama is not felt, as it was in Poet Heyward's other story, Porgy (1925), about a purple-black beggar of Charleston. He has let the beauty of his new locale run away with him. What he should have written was an idyl. What he has written is a poetic scenario...
...black boundin' beggar for you broke a British square...
...unfortunate that the Institute should stumble under the double burden of doing its great work collecting money to make that work possible. Some method should be provided, whether by Congressional appropriation or otherwise whereby this organization shall be forever relieved from the unfitting position of a beggar supporting itself to great extent on private gifts. It is one of those very rare activities which deserve unlimited endowment from a country overflowing with wasted wealth...
...saints. He was in life a captain. Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens, he met a naked beggar on the road and divided his cloak with him, immediately afterward beholding a vision of Christ who acknowledged from heaven this act of charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture the corded body of the beggar tilts at the pale rump...