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
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
Why do you examine me like a beggar?—I do not come to ask alms of you.
From Pélléas and Mélisande by Hovey, Richard
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)
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
