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 poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

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

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

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

Being once bound thine almsmen for that gift, We are bound to beggary, nor our own can call The journal dole of customary life, But after suit obsequious for't to thee.

From New Poems by Thompson, Francis

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 Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

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

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