ask alms
Example Sentences
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A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Juan became so poor at last that he was forced to ask alms from his brother, or what was only the same thing, a loan.
From Philippine Folk-Tales by Millington, W. H.
Yet they omitted not to ask alms once or twice a-week, that they might not disuse themselves from the spirit of mortification and poverty.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Scott, Walter, Sir
To seek to win love from him was about as hopeless as it would have been to ask alms of a man whose purse was empty.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
This girl went out at noon, as was her custom, to stand by the gate and ask alms.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
