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

We were six months in the Black Forest and only met one beggar the whole time, and he was a decent-looking old man who seemed to ask alms unwillingly.

From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

They had become so much disliked that the very beggars were afraid to ask alms of them, for fear of offending their other patrons.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

"Dress yourself as a poor pilgrim, and ask alms in Christ's name."

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

This evening at seven o'clock then thou'lt take thy stand at the corner of this passage facing the Oude Gracht; and there thou wilt remain to ask alms from the passers-by.

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness