almsman
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Even before Moscow began threatening to play the economic card, Warsaw's creditors in the West were seeking ways of shoring up their ailing almsman.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little money, kept to give in alms, I have about me: deathsman, take it all; Thou art the last poor almsman I shall see.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
What fugitive, what almsman of any foreign state, can do so much harm as a detractor, a libeller, a scornful jester at home?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
Then followed the dinner, to which were invited the assistants and the ladies, and old masters' wives and wardens' wives, the preacher, the schoolmaster, the wardens' substitutes, and the humble almsmen of the livery.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
Miss Augustine, saintly sister, who tries to "turn the curse from Whiteladies, by her own prayers and those of her almsmen."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The contentment of these almsmen, if content they be, can give him no title to this wealth!
From The Warden by Anthony Trollope
It included a building, a warden, and twelve almsmen, and it was to be continued—for it had been founded in good Sir William's lifetime—after his death.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent
To this charity were added various sums from benefactors from time to time, and the number of recipients was increased gradually, until in 1855 there were 100 boys and 45 almsmen.
From Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
