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
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
Beggars often ask alms in the interest of particular saints, and this one had attached himself to Elias.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace
To ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.
From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile
A leper came to Brigit to ask alms.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
