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
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
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
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
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
The contentment of these almsmen, if content they be, can give him no title to this wealth!
From The Warden by Anthony Trollope
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
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
It was, when made of coarse material, commonly worn in the middle ages by pilgrims, beggars and almsmen.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
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
