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
To ask alms would be scarcely more humiliating.
From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile
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
Meanwhile he and the other refugees had to ask alms or starve.
From Historic Boyhoods by Holland, Rupert Sargent
"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
