solicit charity

Example Sentences

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"Do you solicit charity, sir, for your friend?"

From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)

"You would not have your wife solicit charity?"

From Mark Hurdlestone Or, The Two Brothers by Moodie, Susanna

These ruinous huts seemed to solicit charity from passers-by; and on very small provocation we should have given alms for the relief of the poor inmates.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

It is neither to solicit charity nor to complain to you, Mrs. Hepburn, of my past ill-treatment, that I sought an interview with you this morning.

From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Moodie, Susanna

I am wretched, since I thus solicit charity, and am abandoned by all the world.'

From On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions by Felton, Samuel