Its members took no vows, neither asked nor received alms; their first aim was to cultivate the interior life, and they worked for their daily bread.

In these boroughs all resident male householders who were not receiving alms or poor relief could vote.

At the monastery, the monks are assembled to preside over the ceremony and to receive their young charge as well as various alms and offerings.

Buddhist monks continued to report that they were fearful and thus no longer able to travel freely through southern communities to receive alms.

From 1709, however, by a resolution of the House of Commons, the franchise was restricted to resident freemen who were not receiving alms.

With ashriek, Violet tore her hat off and thrust it out as though receiving alms.

They provided spiritual guidance for the nobility, and received protection and alms in return.

Henry Martyn, who was the Chaplain of the station, would preach to the poor assembled before his door every Sunday afternoon to receive alms.

The right to vote was exercised by all inhabitant householders not receiving alms, which amounted to about 130 voters in 1831.

The very poor of Florence receive alms in well-worn and basic versions of the clothes of the more prosperous.