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
Meanwhile he and the other refugees had to ask alms or starve.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
To ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.
From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Émile Gaboriau
Even at these tombs I found women, to whom permission was granted to spread their handkerchiefs, and ask alms of every visitor.
From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt
A moment later Sita sees an old hermit draw near to ask alms.
From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
