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
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 W. H. Millington
To seek to win love from him was about as hopeless as it would have been to ask alms of a man whose purse was empty.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
She was looking beyond me, through the gate, as if searching others from whom she might ask alms.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Ellsworth Douglass
One who makes it his business to ask alms.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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