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 ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.
From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile
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
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
