This is some very old inscription, existing perhaps long before the ancient alms-houses in this place. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
By the way, it will suit you, Dorothea; for the cottages are like a row of alms-houses--little gardens, gilly-flowers, that sort of thing. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
A poor prisoner, fed on alms and broken victuals; a squalid, disgraced wretch! 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Some people say we shouldn't give alms to the poor, Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
They live on alms altogether, I believe. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.