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
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 Donne, John
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 Hazlitt, William Carew
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!
From New Poems by Thompson, Francis
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 Brown, Goold
Originally built for twelve almsmen and almswomen, they have been latterly occupied entirely by women.
From Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir
On their saint's day, as in the old days of the Guild, the Company marched in great magnificence, with music and flags and new liveries, with their wardens, officers, schoolboys, almsmen, and priests, to church.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir
The almsmen of Ely and Rochester have cloaks.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
The contentment of these almsmen, if content they be, can give him no title to this wealth!
From The Warden by Trollope, Anthony
The Bourgeois knew that his poor almsmen would be standing there, and he would no more avoid them than he would avoid the Governor.
From The Golden Dog by Kirby, William
