| 单词 | begging-expedition |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbegging-expedition C1. attributive and in other combinations, as begging-bowl, begging-box, begging-expedition, begging-letter, begging-letter-writer. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar's box begging-box1651 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > begging-letter writer begging-letter-writer1846 high-flyer1851 screever1851 society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > begging letter scrieve1581 begging-letter1849 slum1851 the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > one who requests or petitions > letter or document bill1377 petition1414 supplicationc1419 subligationc1600 fire briefa1643 begging-letter1849 slum1851 the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar's bowl maple dish1637 begging-bowl1895 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 3 The Author..rid upon a long stick, or in begging shooes, as he did when he was a Friar. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iii. 32 I must be fain to take up their Questions in a cleft-Cane, or a Begging-box, as they do Charity in Prisons. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 316 They..entered the Krames, and passed the begging-box. 1846 Times 12 Feb. 6/6 (heading) Begging-letter writers. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. xiv. 299 He sent out begging-letters far and wide. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xii. 117 He was a begging-letter writer. 1867 Times 7 Oct. The Begging Letter Writer has talents which it is impossible not to admire. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 545 This was not the last begging expedition of Gervinus to our shore. 1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera I. i. 4 My desk is full of begging letters. 1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 35 Let the begging-bowl be placed outside the shrine. < as lemmas |
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