- A little woebegone? Seek alms! - Ask for food or money - Ask for money - Avoid answering (the question) - Implore - Plead - Plead with top barrister, for example
- Canvas support - Request (aid) - Seek after - Tout - To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to
apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms. - To endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to
solicit an office; to solicit a favor. - To awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to
summon; to appeal to; to invite.