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
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 Noah Webster
Meanwhile he and the other refugees had to ask alms or starve.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
Yet they omitted not to ask alms once or twice a-week, that they might not disuse themselves from the spirit of mortification and poverty.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Robert Dodsley
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