almsgiver

How to use almsgiver in a sentence

• There was once a lady, and there never was such an almsgiver as she was.

  Legends of Saints & Sinners | Douglas Hyde

• She does evil with the easy, graceful air of an almsgiver distributing charity, and she does good with the stealth of a criminal!

  The Son of Clemenceau | Alexandre (fils) Dumas

• The world, he held, owed him a living without the labour of his hands, and to him "the world" was Louis the perpetual almsgiver.

  Old Quebec | Sir Gilbert Parker and Claude Glennon Bryan

• Accordingly, one day he visited John the almsgiver, with his attendants, and peremptorily demanded his money.

  The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (of 16) | Sabine Baring-Gould

• He was a liberal almsgiver, and at the time of his death had nothing that was his own.

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXIV, 1630-34 | Various