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
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 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
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
Originally built for twelve almsmen and almswomen, they have been latterly occupied entirely by women.
From Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
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
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
The almsmen of Ely and Rochester have cloaks.
From Vanishing England by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
The hospital or almshouses stands on the high road from Wimborne to Blandford; the chapel joins one of the tenements occupied by the almsmen.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings by Rev. Thomas Perkins
