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

"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

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

Even at these tombs I found women, to whom permission was granted to spread their handkerchiefs, and ask alms of every visitor.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by Burckhardt, John Lewis

"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