This aimed, not at indiscriminate alms-giving, but at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth Fry] Reference

"That was not an indiscriminate alms-giving," said Mr. Gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Soprano] Reference

Thus he wills alms-giving, and to do good to man so far as he is his creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference

I know also thy regard for Brahmanas. thy courage, and thy great attachment to alms-giving!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

This alone from his labour can a man take with him, what he did in alms-giving and good works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference

As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he never haggled over his alms-giving, but gave gladly and nobly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Many persons seem to suppose that charity consists entirely in alms-giving, while this is only its lowest form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Character] Reference

Like certain philanthropists, who deliver homilies on alms-giving but spare their pockets, he was most liberal of his advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

Now the name of this slave was Bahádur,389 and he was open of hand, generous, munificent and fain of alms-giving and charitable works. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Mere alms-giving is demoralizing for the opposite reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lights and Shadows] Reference

The extra burden of the large and average taxpayer is alms-giving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference

Mere alms-giving, as thee has intimated, but too often encourages vice and idleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures] Reference

It has been degraded in these later years into the sense of alms-giving, so that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891] Reference

That they had made a virtue of alms-giving, to live quietly on the labors of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature] Reference

Nothing kept them off -- neither laughing, nor commanding; alms-giving, nor refusals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children] Reference

She practised the habit of alms-giving, however, not only with her own money but mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak] Reference

His alms-giving, I have heard, was most extensive, covering almost the whole Archipelago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Line; a confession] Reference

Catholic students of social problems must recognize the folly of indiscriminate alms-giving.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Monks and Monasteries] Reference

Notwithstanding my political economy, I was moved into alms-giving, by a spectacle so wretched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference

Among ourselves, as the times of communion draw near, do they not lead us to reconciliation and to alms-giving?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emile] Reference

This alms-giving did me good; it made me forget my losses, and I spent a delightful evening with the marchioness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Salvation, the managers did not dare to refuse any applicants, for fear lest they might check the flow of alms-giving.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2] Reference

In the matter of alms-giving the Master warned against, and inferentially denounced, ostentation and hypocritical display.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference

It is a call to penance, prayer, alms-giving and sacrifice that ends with the celebration of Christ's resurrection on Easter.    From Wordnik.com.  [BangorDailyNews.com - News] Reference

The King must obey the law, but he can forget the principles of alms-giving, as may the rest of us at Christmas, and be blameless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of an American] Reference

Mere alms-giving is but a temporary aid, and takes away, instead of giving, that basis of self-dependence, on which all should rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lights and Shadows] Reference