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
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
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 John Payne
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 George Burnham Ives
"Dress yourself as a poor pilgrim, and ask alms in Christ's name."
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
