... "What! do you say that such should be the condition of one who sings of gods and men? Alms, with the humiliation and suffering which they bring with them!—what barbarous generosity!"... 
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...” While theKapu women sing this song, the woman of the house pours water overthe frog and gives an alms, convinced that by so doing she willsoon bring rain down in torrents...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
... Beg help and you will meet with refusals; ask for alms and you will meet with misers...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
... to the intent the parishionersshould put into it their oblation and alms for their poor...
Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 「The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.」
...At the doors of this church,as at those of other Catholic places of worship in the town, you maysee men standing with boxes, asking for alms...
Atticus 「Our Churches and Chapels」
...He isreported to have seated himself at the door of the cathedral, and tohave begged alms for this purpose from the worshippers...
C. H. B. Quennell 「Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich」
...No doubt thegift of indiscriminate alms to every applicant would tend to abuse andlazy beggary; but a scheme of sympathetic and well directed aidthoughtfully administered would not...
Dugald Butler and Herbert Story 「Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys」
...On the altar were two tapers burning, an alms dish, and two books...
W.D. Sweeting 「The Cathedral Church of Peterborough」
...Truly, said the good man, an ye might live as long as the world might endure, ne might ye have done so great an alms deed at this...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
...In one hand, it carried an alms dish,and in the other, a dagger...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...He spoke to me,though I did not understand him, but with sturdy independence did notask for alms, and when I had seen his leg he bound it up again andlimped on...
George Ernest Morrison 「An Australian in China」
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