Sentence examples for begging for alms from inspiring English sources
She was turned out of her home, cursed to wander the roads of the Deccan, begging for alms.
It is a common sight in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, even today, to come across "amputees" begging for alms.
Three days before this week's anniversary, a soldier was killed by a bomb as he guarded monks begging for alms in Narathiwat city, the capital of the province in which Tak Bai is situated.
As the members of the transitional government huddle in their Mogadishu barracks, waiting to collect their welfare checks, Mr. Farole is reduced to roaming the countryside, begging for alms.
About 600 people were recently detained at Mount Wutai, a Buddhist pilgrimage site in a northeastern city, for posing as monks to hustle money by fortunetelling, begging for alms and performing street shows, the state news media reported.
"The Life of Oharu" (1952) traces the decline of its seventeenth-century heroine from a well-bred servant of the court to an aged prostitute, begging for alms under a sky of tarnished silver.
She begged for alms and foraged for fruit.
Like living ghosts, they wore green military uniforms under bedraggled white robes, and begged for alms on busy street corners.
"But if you have a failure, you virtually must beg for alms with the rest of les miserables".
With a smear of mud on her forehead she now begs for alms, singing devotional songs and reciting the 108 names of Krishna.
The initiation ceremony concludes when the student kindles the sacrificial fire and begs for alms, symbolic of his dependence on others during his brahmacharin period.
