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
A beggar meeting him alone would never dare to ask alms.
From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
He does not dare to ask alms for a fugitive.
From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Parker, Theodore
My fifth brother, he of the cropt ears, O Commander of the Faithful, was a poor man, who used to ask alms by night and live by day on what he got thus.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John
They would neither own property nor ask alms, but worked at various trades and were thus maintained, with voluntary offerings from the faithful.
