alms-bag

Here behind the balustrade of a balcony was a young man in a short cloak, holding in his arms a young girl in a white dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of English ladies with fair curls, who looked at you from under their round straw hats with their large clear eyes.

Madame Bovary 2003

He built convents and churches, and never went out without an alms-bag or _kalita_ to give money to the poor; hence his surname.

The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

He is not ashamed to eat fruit and cheese over an open book, and to transfer his empty cup from side to side upon it; and because he has not his alms-bag at hand, he leaves the rest of the fragments in his books.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

Madame de K. collected on Sunday at St. Thomas's and her baby held the alms-bag.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

The solitary passages in the Gospel of St. John, which are all that Dr. Ginsburg can quote in support of this contention, may have referred to an alms-bag or a fund for certain expenses, not to a common pool of all monetary wealth.

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

Here behind the balustrade of a balcony was a young man in a short cloak, holding in his arms a young girl in a white dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of

Madame Bovary 1902

The aristocracy, in order to rally the people to them, waved the proletarian alms-bag in front for a banner.

Manifesto of the Communist Party 1888

It can't be described -- it was as original and charming as possible, with a white skirt and an alms-bag of white satin.

Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) Marie Bashkirtseff 1871

And some time after she made him a gift of an alms-bag on which she had wrought the words, "Ann, to her worthy work-fellow."

Margery — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

And some time after she made him a gift of an alms-bag on which she had wrought the words, "Ann, to her worthy work-fellow."

Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867