Alm
[ɑ:m]
Unserious Contents or Definition
Alms will bring evil if given or taken unwillingly. Otherwise, a good dream.
Inputed by Billy
Examples
- This is some very old inscription, existing perhaps long before the ancient alms-houses in this place. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By the way, it will suit you, Dorothea; for the cottages are like a row of alms-houses--little gardens, gilly-flowers, that sort of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A poor prisoner, fed on alms and broken victuals; a squalid, disgraced wretch! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Some people say we shouldn't give alms to the poor, Shirley. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They live on alms altogether, I believe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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