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
A moment later Sita sees an old hermit draw near to ask alms.
From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
"Dress yourself as a poor pilgrim, and ask alms in Christ's name."
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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
A leper came to Brigit to ask alms.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell
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