half-eleemosynary

Updated: May 8, 2025

I could have done it quite as effectually for myself; but, it seems, the old people of the neighborhood haunt about the church-yard, in spite of the frowns and remonstrances of the sexton, who grudges them the half-eleemosynary sixpence which they sometimes get from visitors.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863

I could have done it quite as effectually for myself; but it seems, the old people of the neighborhood haunt about the churchyard, in spite of the frowns and remonstrances of the sexton, who grudges them the half-eleemosynary sixpence which they sometimes get from visitors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches: A Series of English Sketches