ask alms

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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

Yet they omitted not to ask alms once or twice a-week, that they might not disuse themselves from the spirit of mortification and poverty.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 16 by Scott, Walter, Sir

A moment later Sita sees an old hermit draw near to ask alms.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

Then he told the beggar to ask alms again; but the beggar refused, because he feared that the magician, who was then absent, would return home and eat him up.

From Italian Popular Tales by Crane, Thomas Frederick