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
This girl went out at noon, as was her custom, to stand by the gate and ask alms.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
A leper came to Brigit to ask alms.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
"Dress yourself as a poor pilgrim, and ask alms in Christ's name."
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
She was looking beyond me, through the gate, as if searching others from whom she might ask alms.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
