Did you distribute generous alms among the people present? MADAM ULANBÉKOV.

A lodging, such as it was, was readily granted to them in some of the outhouses, and the usual awmous (alms) of a handful of meal (called a gowpen) was scarce denied by the poorest cottager.

THE BEGGAR There stood a beggar asking alms By the cathedral gate, His face bore torture marks of life Pale, tired, blindlike fate.

Fond hearts, farewell, that swallow'd have my youth; Adieu, vain muses, that have wrought my ruth; Repent, fond sire, that train'dst thy hapless son In learning's lore, since bounteous alms are done.

Some imagine, that the laws have provided all necessary relief, in common cases, and remit the poor to the care of the publick; some have been deceived by fictitious misery, and are afraid of encouraging imposture; many have observed want to be the effect of vice, and consider casual alms-givers as patrons of idleness.

After I had distributed the customary alms

It is a duty, And as a duty, from those men have felt ye, Should be return'd again: I have gain'd by ye, A daily alms these seven years you have showr'd on me, Will half supply your want.

The embossed alms dish and old earthenware plate for the communion should be noticed.

In many instances, private individuals even gave extraordinary alms to bring down the blessing of Heaven on the nation, so interested in the expected event.

It was almost as if the old man were pleading a case, rather than giving glorious alms to one to whom hope had seemed dead.

He first made himself welcome by giving her a handsome alms, and then inquired about her health.

Cavalcanti, Macchiavelli, Ammirato, and almost all other historians, describe him as "Large-hearted, liberal-minded, courteous and charitable, dispensing munificent alms with delicate consideration of the feelings and wants of those whom he assisted.

He had learnt, and learnt rightly, the self-indulgence, the danger, the cruelty, of indiscriminate alms.

Charitynot mere alms, or toleration, or general benignity, out of a safe self-provision; but caritasnearness, and caring, and loving,the very essence of mothering; the way to and hold of the heart of it all, the heart of the life of humanity.

Cavalcanti, Macchiavelli, Ammirato, and almost all other historians, describe him as "Large-hearted, liberal-minded, courteous and charitable, dispensing munificent alms with delicate consideration of the feelings and wants of those whom he assisted.

When I had made a note of the delivery of the letter to the Russian consul at the bank, I found Trego and Meeker togetherthe spy disguised as a missionary seeking alms, and Trego driving him out of the room.

Knock at your hard hearts Rogues, and presently Give us a sign you feel compunction, Every man up with's cudgel, and on his neighbour Bestow such alms, 'till we shall say sufficient, For there your sentence lyes without partiality; Either of head, or hide Rogues, without sparing, Or we shall take the pains to beat you dead else: You shall know your doom.

And when these brothers of mercy have quitted the house, the children whose father they have carried out, or the wife whose husband they have borne away, have but to look around them, and always, on some worm-eaten piece of furniture, there will be found a pious alms, deposited by an unknown hand.

And I can tell you that's as plentiful alms for the plague as the Sheriff's tub to them of Newgate.

If the poor man had got his battered old helmet full of them, the ponderous alms would not have driven the wolf gaunt and grinning many paces from his squalid home,always admitting that he had any home, however squalid, to crawl into at sunset.

No doubt she was conscious that by relating without reserve the history of all the trials, joys, and sorrows of her whole life, she was bestowing a most precious spiritual alms upon him.

They were ordered to go without money, scrip or cloak, but to live on religious alms; and it is added,that if any house or city does not receive them, it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment than for it.

"In the year 883, Alfred, King of England, hearing that there existed a Christian church in the Indies, dedicated to the memory of St Thomas and St Bartholomew, dispatched one Sighelm, or Sithelm, a favourite ecclesiastic of his court, to carry his royal alms to that distant shrine.

No doubt she was conscious that by relating without reserve the history of all the trials, joys, and sorrows of her whole life, she was bestowing a most precious spiritual alms upon him.

Her kind offices and beneficent schemes were almost as famous as General Villivicencio's splendid alms; if she could at times do what the infantile Washington said he could not, why, no doubt she and her friends generally looked upon it as a mere question of enterprise.