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
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
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
Meanwhile he and the other refugees had to ask alms or starve.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
You ask alms and do not even take your hat off.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning
