ask alms

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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

We were six months in the Black Forest and only met one beggar the whole time, and he was a decent-looking old man who seemed to ask alms unwillingly.

From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

Meanwhile he and the other refugees had to ask alms or starve.

From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent

To ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.

From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile

So I have brought them to thee, that thou mayest shelter them and rescue them from beggary, for they are not fit to ask alms, and if God will, we shall enter Paradise through them.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John