"receive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Its members took no vows, neither asked nor received alms; their first aim was to cultivate the interior life, and they worked for their daily bread.
- In these boroughs all resident male householders who were not receiving alms or poor relief could vote.
- At the monastery, the monks are assembled to preside over the ceremony and to receive their young charge as well as various alms and offerings.
- Buddhist monks continued to report that they were fearful and thus no longer able to travel freely through southern communities to receive alms.
- From 1709, however, by a resolution of the House of Commons, the franchise was restricted to resident freemen who were not receiving alms.
- With ashriek, Violet tore her hat off and thrust it out as though receiving alms.
- They provided spiritual guidance for the nobility, and received protection and alms in return.
- Henry Martyn, who was the Chaplain of the station, would preach to the poor assembled before his door every Sunday afternoon to receive alms.
- The right to vote was exercised by all inhabitant householders not receiving alms, which amounted to about 130 voters in 1831.
- The very poor of Florence receive alms in well-worn and basic versions of the clothes of the more prosperous.
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