How To Use almsgiver In A Sentence
- He was a liberal almsgiver, and at the time of his death had nothing that was his own. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
- He was an almsgiver with a firm determination to study Buddhist scriptures.
- Much fair was this lady, and much she loved God and Holy Church, and therewith was so good almsgiver and so charitable that she fed and clad poor people and kissed their feet. Old French Romances
- Reply Obj. 3: The merit of an almsgiver depends on that in which the will of the recipient rests reasonably, and not on that in which it rests when it is inordinate. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
- She saw it, caught it, at times, his parting present; and there were moments when she felt herself sitting like a beggar with a hand held out to almsgiver who only fumbled. In the Cage
- The King was so liberal an almsgiver, that wherever he went throughout his kingdom, he made gifts to poor churches, to lazar-houses, to alms houses, to asylums, and to poor gentlemen and gentlewomen. The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
- It is the favourite boast of the sentimental millionaire that he holds his wealth in trust for humanity, -- in other words, that he has been chosen by an all-wise Providence to be the universal almsgiver of mankind. American Sketches 1908
- It was in a cottage at Osborne that the same gentle and august almsgiver was found reading comfortable Scripture words to a sick and aged peasant, quietly retiring upon the entrance of the clerical visitant, that _his_ message of peace might be freely given, and thus allowing the sufferer to disclose to the pastor that the lady in the widow's weeds was Victoria of England. Great Britain and Her Queen
- There is a deep satisfaction in protecting such families from the careless, patronizing charity of the thoughtless almsgiver, whose unsteady hand would give them a feast to-day and a famine to-morrow. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers
- Unlike the almsgivers of past times to whom suffering was suffering and to be alleviated however it had been incurred, these men are stern moralists.