Box for collecting alms, especially one in a church.
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Examples for "poor box"
Examples for "poor box"
1He did give her a sovereign out of the poor box, though.'
2Every year we read stories citing poor box office results and cash-strapped filmmakers.
3Sir, -I refer to your article Minister to abolish poor box .
4The abbot dropped the old woman's coins in the poor box.
5Would you return to the imprisonment of this poor box,-toyour old mimic life?
1Note the old thurible used as an alms box.
2My introduction to her came through the kitten she smuggled into the alms box of the chapel.
3Steam-workers don't buy bread or cloth, nor do they drop farthings into the alms box at church on Sunday.
4Alms Box at Pickering Church
1Another girl was going across the fields with a blue mite box.
2Rosella had a blue mite box, and so had her brother Drew.
3She didn't cut fruit till she got her mite box.
4Now I save money to put in mite box.
5I'm going to work to fill my mite box.
6I do believe Louie Ming's putting every bit of her pay into her mite box!
7When it was over, Rosella had two nickels in her mite box, and Drew had three in his.
8Rosella and Drew carried their mite boxes across the fields toward their tent.
9Rosella and Drew carried their mite boxes into their mother's tent.
10The mite boxes had been given out in Sunday-school, and were to be kept two months.
11It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them.
12And how glad they were that their mite boxes were heavy when the day came to carry them back!
13"We'll have a whole lot of money in our mite boxes when we carry them back," said Rosella.
14"Louie Ming's got a mite box!"
Translations for mite box