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
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 mendicant, but not in rags like others of his kind, and with a dark and sinister countenance, narrowly observing every object around him, entered to ask alms.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
A moment later Sita sees an old hermit draw near to ask alms.
From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)
Juan became so poor at last that he was forced to ask alms from his brother, or what was only the same thing, a loan.
From Philippine Folk-Tales by Millington, W. H.
