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
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
Thus, though we find in Johnson, alms-basket, alms-giver, with the hyphen; we have almsdeed, almshouse, almsman, without: and many similar examples of an unsettled practice might be adduced, sufficient to fill several pages.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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
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
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
The Bourgeois knew that his poor almsmen would be standing there, and he would no more avoid them than he would avoid the Governor.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
It was much spoilt in the fifties: the original plan was a great hall, with a chapel at the end of it, and cells along the side for the almsmen.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer
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
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