poor-box

In Chelm, they hung the poor-box from the synagogue ceiling so the thiefs couldn't steal from it, and then built a staircase up to it so people could still donate.

The Man Who Left Chelm Steven Barnes 2010

In Chelm, they hung the poor-box from the synagogue ceiling so the thiefs couldn't steal from it, and then built a staircase up to it so people could still donate.

Archive 2010-04-01 Steven Barnes 2010

I open my book and start to read: ‘You can’t know how I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable poor-box dresses.

Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

I open my book and start to read: ‘You can’t know how I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable poor-box dresses.

Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

I open my book and start to read: ‘You can’t know how I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable poor-box dresses.

Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

I open my book and start to read: ‘You can’t know how I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable poor-box dresses.

Dear Pen Pal Heather Vogel Frederick 2009

The hypocrites always have trumpets sounding when they walk down the red carpet to drop a penny in the poor-box.

Obama's Most Progressive Act Yet; Solidarity With the Chicago Factory Worker Sit-in 2008

The tyrant took the thirty shillings that my dear parents had given me, and said he should put them into the poor-box at church; and, after having made a long discourse to the boys about meanness and usury, he said, “Take off your coat, Mr. Stubbs, and restore Bunting his waistcoat.”

The Fatal Boots 2006

And people stealing from the poor-box at the local church.

we're no damn good, I tell ya impetuousme 2005

It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God Save The King' than of stealing from a poor-box.

St George And The BBC Laban 2003