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