Usage of "alms box" | TermGallery

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Box for collecting alms, especially one in a church.

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Examples for "poor box"

Examples for "poor box"

He did give her a sovereign out of the poor box, though.' 
 Robert Falconer 

Every year we read stories citing poor box office results and cash-strapped filmmakers. 
 The Guardian 

Sir, -I refer to your article Minister to abolish poor box . 
 The Irish Times 

The abbot dropped the old woman's coins in the poor box. 
 A Canticle For Leibowitz 

Would you return to the imprisonment of this poor box,-toyour old mimic life? 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 / A Maga... 

Another girl was going across the fields with a blue mite box. 
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Rosella had a blue mite box, and so had her brother Drew. 
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She didn't cut fruit till she got her mite box. 
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Now I save money to put in mite box. 
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I'm going to work to fill my mite box. 
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Ús de alms box en anglès

Note the old thurible used as an alms box. 
 Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End 

My introduction to her came through the kitten she smuggled into the alms box of the chapel. 
 The House of a Thousand Candles 

Steam-workers don't buy bread or cloth, nor do they drop farthings into the alms box at church on Sunday. 
 The Mammoth Book of Steampunk 

Alms Box at Pickering Church 
 The Evolution of an English Town 

Translations for alms box

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Significats de alms box en anglès