Sentence examples for his beggar from inspiring English sources

I have sandwiches and fruit!" He works quickly with his beggar's cup among riders who are never seen to accept his free foodstuffs.

His Beggar's Opera was successfully transmitted into the 20th century by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill as Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera).

They really do look what they are, even as Belisarius sitting by his beggar's cup or Napoleon brooding on St. Helena.

When John Gay wrote his Beggar's Opera in 1728, he wasn't just thumbing his nose at the convention of his day, where operatic characters were of elevated social status and noble in sentiment.

— a dog, one with probably the most regal pedigree in literary history, Odysseus's faithful hound Argos, who waited 20 years in Ithaca for his master's return, recognizing him even through his beggar's disguise and summoning just enough energy to greet him a final time before dying.

An intricacy of interconnecting opposites (parent/child, frailty/strength, intransigence/compassion, good/bad...) clash around the question: "Is man no more than this?" It is voiced by Lear when he catches sight of the disguised Edgar, Christ-like in his beggar's battered and bloody near-nakedness, during the storm on the heath.

His tale beggars belief so much that when he was recounting his high school days as primarily an infielder, his teammate Jonny Venters looked up and said, "That can't be true".

His reply beggared belief.

"How the government can plough ahead with the wholesale academisation of all schools in light of his evidence beggars belief.

"If Grexit … is not a credible threat, Tsipras will have to accept the same reality as his predecessors: beggars can't be choosers".

The Innovation award might never have occurred if Numan had not stood up to an executive at his label Beggars Banquet, who was furious that the punk signing they had made in 1978 was now dabbling with new-fangled synthesisers.