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
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 seek to win love from him was about as hopeless as it would have been to ask alms of a man whose purse was empty.
From Henry Dunbar A Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Notwithstanding this attempt to prevent their approaching a Brāhman’s house, they continue to ask alms of the Brāhmans, and some Brāhmans make a point of supplying them with provisions.”
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
A leper came to Brigit to ask alms.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
