Meanings of solicite alms in English

It was Mother Fetu, who was soliciting alms at the church door.

A man grinding a hand-organ in the street is doubtless a sturdy beggar soliciting alms.

One morning at Kazan I stood at my hotel window watching a beggar woman soliciting alms.

Beggars of all descriptions swarmed in the streets, exhibiting their sores, and demanding rather than soliciting alms.

Since that is not my form of soliciting alms, I look down upon it with a polar disdain.

The woman never verbally solicited alms.

The genuine Bedlamite was allowed to roam the country on his discharge, soliciting alms, provided he wore a badge.

Montaigne relates, that, while once walking in the fields, he was accosted by a beggar of Herculean frame, who solicited alms.

Whilst the footman was opening the door on one side, a beggar soliciting alms appeared at the other, where Anielka was seated.

A gentleman residing in Marseilles had seen him while soliciting alms perform most astonishing feats of memory, and brought him to Paris.

Every time that she paused and solicited alms with her tambourine the crowd dispersed, and some of them laughed because she insisted.

The great drawback was the crowds of beggars, who would surround us wherever we went, soliciting alms, but they were generally good humored.

At the hour, however, of dinner, O Janamejaya, the intelligent and righteous ascetic, leading a life of mendicancy, approached Devala for soliciting alms.

I have neither solicited alms, trespassed on private property, begged food, nor committed crime in your little kingdom, my good and great three-tailed bashaw.

The eligibility of some consists in their soliciting alms for performing sacrifices or for paying the preceptor's fee or for maintaining their spouses and children.

"Yes," said Hubert, "and when a beggar solicited alms of Peter and John, they had nothing to give him!