almsman
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Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little money, kept to give in alms, I have about me: deathsman, take it all; Thou art the last poor almsman I shall see.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
Thus, though we find in Johnson, alms-basket, alms-giver, with the hyphen; we have almsdeed, almshouse, almsman, without: and many similar examples of an unsettled practice might be adduced, sufficient to fill several pages.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
The almsmen of Ely and Rochester have cloaks.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
It was, when made of coarse material, commonly worn in the middle ages by pilgrims, beggars and almsmen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
The hospital or almshouses stands on the high road from Wimborne to Blandford; the chapel joins one of the tenements occupied by the almsmen.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings by Rev. Thomas Perkins
It included a building, a warden, and twelve almsmen, and it was to be continued—for it had been founded in good Sir William's lifetime—after his death.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
It was much spoilt in the fifties: the original plan was a great hall, with a chapel at the end of it, and cells along the side for the almsmen.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer
