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"Cadge" Quotes from Famous Books

... we had a dreadful time beneath that cloud of thirst! We all chucked-up our daily work and went upon the burst. The very blacks about the town that used to cadge for grub, They made an organised attack and ...

— Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

... rambling and confused, and contained, I could but confess it, many Incredible Particulars, that I could plainly see no one believed my Tale, or accounted me as aught but a half-mad Fellow that had run away for some misdeed from a Ship in port on the Coast of Syria, and was now trying to cadge Sympathy for a Pretended Grievance. At last I gave up complaining. Slowly, but surely, my memory of my former life began to Decay, and even the knowledge of mine own Language faded away, and became weaker and weaker every day. I dressed, I ate, I drank, ...

— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 • George Augustus Sala

... discussion. She had not much money, either, to buy her trousseau with. Bridget would have none of Sir Luke's suggestions of conciliatory letters and cablegrams to Eliza Lady Gaverick on the subject of settlements. She said she did not intend to cadge any longer upon her rich relative, and that she preferred to marry without settlements. Sir Luke was not satisfied with McKeith's views upon the financial question, and had some difficulty in getting him to tie up even the insignificant sum of three thousand pounds in settlement upon ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

Words linked to "Cadge" : beg, schnorr, mooch, scrounge, grub, shnorr, cadger, bum, obtain, sponge