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
Meanwhile he and the other refugees had to ask alms or starve.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
We were six months in the Black Forest and only met one beggar the whole time, and he was a decent-looking old man who seemed to ask alms unwillingly.
From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
You ask alms and do not even take your hat off.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by C. E. (Clara Elizabeth) Fanning
Yet they omitted not to ask alms once or twice a-week, that they might not disuse themselves from the spirit of mortification and poverty.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Sir Walter Scott
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