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

"Because I carry a wallet it does not follow that I ask alms of you, Reverend Father," said Croustillac.

From A Romance of the West Indies by Sue, Eugène

So I have brought them to thee, that thou mayest shelter them and rescue them from beggary, for they are not fit to ask alms, and if God will, we shall enter Paradise through them.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

To ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.

From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile

Juan became so poor at last that he was forced to ask alms from his brother, or what was only the same thing, a loan.

From Philippine Folk-Tales by Millington, W. H.