almsman

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

O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!

From New Poems by Francis Thompson

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

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

The contentment of these almsmen, if content they be, can give him no title to this wealth!

From The Warden by Anthony Trollope

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 Sir Walter Besant

The almsmen of Ely and Rochester have cloaks.

From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Then followed the dinner, to which were invited the assistants and the ladies, and old masters' wives and wardens' wives, the preacher, the schoolmaster, the wardens' substitutes, and the humble almsmen of the livery.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

Miss Augustine, saintly sister, who tries to "turn the curse from Whiteladies, by her own prayers and those of her almsmen."

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer