Thematic Bible: Crumb of, used to wipe the fingers, thrown under the table
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covered with sores and longing to make a full meal off the scraps flung on the floor from the rich man's table. Nay, the dogs, too, used to come and lick his sores.
"Be it so, Sir," she said, "for even the dogs eat the scraps which fall from their masters' tables."