ask alms
Example Sentences
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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
They had become so much disliked that the very beggars were afraid to ask alms of them, for fear of offending their other patrons.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold
No, nor rents brought in by long staff-speeches, that ask alms with frowns, till thy looks and speech have laid violent hands upon men's charity.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
A wretched, cracked earthen cup, or an old wooden shoe, hanging by a string to his belt, he uses to ask alms in the shape of wine.
From The Devil's Pool by Ives, George Burnham
Why do you examine me like a beggar?—I do not come to ask alms of you.
From Pélléas and Mélisande by Hovey, Richard
