Away, away, thou thriftless loone, I swear thou gettest no alms of me; For if we shold hang any losel here, The first we would begin with thee.
The wedding takes place, and like another St. Elizabeth she is seen standing, soon afterwards, distributing alms to starving beggars.
To teach them charity you make them give alms as if you scorned to give yourself.
Do not give alms alone, give charity; works of mercy do more than money for the relief of suffering; love others and they will love you; serve them and they will serve you; be their brother and they will be your children.
The priest was so well known for his uprightness and his discretion, that many people preferred to entrust their alms to him, rather than to the wealthy clergy of the town.
He saw a beggar walk merrily to his post, kicking a dog out of his way, and then askalms in the character of a confirmed cripple.
Some, who were musicians, had acquired old instruments and, forming strolling street bands, were imploring almsfor their roarings from village to village.
Her rivals were not the public women of the great ports, nor the tourists who could give only a few days of love, like analms which they tossed without stopping their progress.
It is to start {179} with a presentation of material things, bread and wine of the fruits of the earth, with alms and other offerings it may be: and these oblations are accompanied with prayers and symbolic rites.
It was already sufficiently distinctive for St. Paul to name it as the appropriate day for laying by alms for the poor[30].
He had also expressed himself against the mendicancy practised by the Augustinians, and yet the Order was a Mendicant Order and the collecting of alms one of its essential statutes.
Perhaps you are to be excused because you receive alms in God’s name, and preach the word and perform the other services gratis.
Those who procured a Confession-letter received, according to an ancient usage, with the same letter permission to select a suitable confessor; for this an alms was given.
Nor was it right if, as was probably the case, the Indulgence-preachers did not explain to the people how one part of their alms was to be disposed of, but left them in the belief that it was all to be devoted to the object announced [i.
Any pilgrim belonging to this sect has the right to call at whatever door bears the above formula and ask foralms or food.
With beggar's staff to wander forth, Imploring alms from spot to spot.
This touched his heart, and he gave alms with an open hand to the sorrowing woman.
These beggars were soliciting alms to carry them home; and their numbers were increased by many pilgrims of respectable appearance, whose money had been spent during the Hadj.
Old-age and disease are excuses for keeping the head covered; but this indulgence must be purchased by giving alms to the poor.
Some of these beggars are extremely importunate, and seem to ask for alms as if they were legally entitled to it.
After a residence of a couple of years, they invest the alms they have collected in merchandize, and thus return with a considerable capital.
Even at these tombs I found women, to whom permission was granted to spread their handkerchiefs, and ask alms of every visitor.
Her alms seem to be something strange, joyous and free, like the red flowers and the lights that glow before the saintly images.
Maxim knew it well, this sad melody: "Alms, alms for the poor blind man .
Peter listens to their plaintive melody: "Alms, alms for a poor blind man .
Muriel murmured an apology, with the inward reservation to bestow her alms next time when Lady Bassett was not looking on.
She had come to regard him almost in the light of a protege, and, remembering suddenly that he had besought an alms of her in vain some hours before, she turned impulsively to a man she knew who had just come up.
His private alms also amount to a very large sum, and his hospitality is proverbial.
They gave their cheerful alms to the mendicants, and spread a bounteous board for their neighbours.
Yet Jhungi plays the beggar well, for which Fate be praised, since he must ask alms elsewhere if the Huzoor refuses them.
As he spoke he angled out a hand impudently for an alms with the beggars' cry of "Alakh," to point his meaning.
I must have a very charitable aspect, since they ask alms of me in the present lean condition of my purse.
Then he turned trembling with mortification and ire, and said: "Let that teach thee to offer alms to an artist thou knowest not, master writer.
The man sought an alms of us, and told us his hard case.
With the poor alms this world affords Deplorably content!
Her learning, and her genius too, decays, And dark and cold are her declining days; As if men now were of another cast, They meanly live onalms of ages past.
