He pounced and ordered the Pole to throw the child into the river or else he would be shot along with the young beggar.

I should have thought that he was a young beggar who wished to get hold of the girl he fancies, and that's all.

Talk of a mailed fist, that young beggar has one like a pole-axe.

I had got the young beggar by the ears, and I remember just thinking at the moment what luscious strew he was going to make.

But one morning, Sili, a young beggar, challenges that exclusive rule.

(She is later given the name Osama by a young beggar who knows the secret of her identity.)

'You're a determined young beggar, I'll say that for you,' he said, not without affection.

The young beggar tells her that while he was begging on the streets, he heard that people could find work by offering to wash clothes.

Daresay they're easier to paint that way; now, this young beggar is on the move all the time, aren't you, Fairy?

"This Decoud, I see, is a persuasive young beggar," he remarked at last.