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
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)
We were six months in the Black Forest and only met one beggar the whole time, and he was a decent-looking old man who seemed to ask alms unwillingly.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
A beggar meeting him alone would never dare to ask alms.
From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
To ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.
From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile
