ask alms
Example Sentences
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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
Then he told the beggar to ask alms again; but the beggar refused, because he feared that the magician, who was then absent, would return home and eat him up.
From Italian Popular Tales by Crane, Thomas Frederick
In 1812 Sevak Rām Seth, a banker of Holkar’s court, offended one of these Bhāts, pushing him rudely out of the shop where the man had come to ask alms.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
A mendicant, but not in rags like others of his kind, and with a dark and sinister countenance, narrowly observing every object around him, entered to ask alms.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
Could I ask alms or borrow what I could not pay?
From Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories by Green, Anna Katharine
