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

A moment later Sita sees an old hermit draw near to ask alms.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

If any go to ask alms, it must be by appointment of the superiors.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Beggars often ask alms in the interest of particular saints, and this one had attached himself to Elias.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace