Hence the Jerusalem Talmud in the place above quoted, The alms-dish was for every man. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
The chief service, consisting of two cups with covers, two flagons, an alms-dish and two patens with covers, was made for James, Duke of Lenox and Richmond, in London in 1653-54. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The Hindoos say that the goddess Gungu -- who was produced from the sweat of Vrishnoo's foot, which Brumha caught and preserved in his alms-dish -- came down from heaven, and divided herself into one hundred streams, which are the mouths of the river Ganges. ❋ Dr. John Scudder (N/A)
_ -- In Bardsea Church, Island of Furness, is an alms-dish (?) of a large size, apparently very old, gilt, and bearing the following inscription: -- ❋ Various (N/A)
Arthur come over with her to Brodnyx and Pedlinge on the Sundays she felt inclined to go to church, saying that she did not care for their ways at Romney, where they had a lot of ceremonial centering round the alms-dish. ❋ Sheila Kaye-Smith (1921)
In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones. ❋ Hermann Hesse (1919)
The majority of the monks went out with their alms-dish, to collect food in town for their lunch, the only meal of the day. ❋ Hermann Hesse (1919)
He saw him, a simple man in a yellow robe, bearing the alms-dish in his hand, walking silently. ❋ Hermann Hesse (1919)
Possibly the struggle for precedence in going up to make the offering, of which we read in Chaucer, tended to bring this method of contributing into disfavour and led to the carrying round of an alms-dish or bag from bench to bench as is commonly done at present. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Suggesting one of the great shields of beaten gold that King Solomon had made for the Temple of Jerusalem, an alms-dish stood on edge, and leant against the retable to the right of the veiled chalice. ❋ Robert Keable (1907)
Henceforth the plate was confined to a chalice and paten, alms-dish, and usually a large silver flagon. ❋ Unknown (1892)
In one hand it carried the alms-dish, and in the other a sword. ❋ Robert Green Ingersoll (1866)
He fidgeted up and down the room for a moment, played nervously with an alms-dish on the side-board, took up ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)
_ -- There is an alms-dish (?) {102} in the possession of a clergyman near Rotherham, in this county, with the following inscription: -- ❋ Various (1852)
And these “Ostrich Feathers,” thus blazoned on a sable field upon the silver alms-dish of Queen PHILIPPA, Sir N. H. ❋ Charles Boutell (1844)
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the only records of intercourse relate to the occasional despatch of public officers by the emperor of China to collect gems and medical drugs, and on three successive occasions during the earlier part of the Yuen dynasty, envoys were empowered to negotiate the purchase of the sacred alms-dish of ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
Chinese annalists, and states that the alms-dish of Buddha was at length yielded by the King of Ceylon as a gift to Kublai Khan, and carried with signal honour to China. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)
_alms-dish_ on the table was discontinued, and with less charitable intentions came the less refined custom of removing the broken victuals after a meal by means of a _voiding-knife_ and _voider_: the latter was a basket into which were swept by a large wand, usually of wood, or ❋ Various (1852)
On many days, I have seen him, walking through the alleys in silence, wearing his yellow cloak, presenting his alms-dish in silence at the doors of the houses, leaving with a filled dish. " ❋ Hermann Hesse (1919)
