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

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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

So I have brought them to thee, that thou mayest shelter them and rescue them from beggary, for they are not fit to ask alms, and if God will, we shall enter Paradise through them.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John