Sentence examples for asking for alms from inspiring English sources

Dr Baumard's volunteers read about a beggar asking for alms, and a passer-by who did not give them.

By Robert M. Coates and G. Alan Chidsey The New Yorker, November 23 , 1929P. 19 Professional beggar worked his way over to Park Avenue, asking for alms, and stopped resplendent gentleman, stepping jauntily downtown.

I am not used to having people knocking on the door of the car and crying children asking for alms.

Shiva is also depicted as asking for alms from the goddess Annapurna, a form of Parvati as the goddess of food.

The 7th-century Nayanar saint Campantar mentions that Bhikshatana wanders from door to door asking for alms with the beggar's call "Ladies, give me alms" and places his verses on the lips of women, who become enamoured of Bhikshatana.

Some hairy man sits under a tree and asks for alms.

Journalists request interviews the way beggars ask for alms, reflexively and nervously.

Sitting in my office on a hot June day, gazing out the grimy chicken-wire window at a red-brick wall, I remembered an observation from "Iphigenia in Forest Hills": "Journalists request interviews the way beggars ask for alms, reflexively and nervously".

It is said that the wife of the prophet Muhammad was once approached by a poor woman with two daughters, who asked for some alms.

The family was used to giving alms, not asking for them.

"The brown arm snakes through your car's open window and asks you for alms," he said.