Citations:charity


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * Englishman), “I will carry you thither in charity, and those things will help to buy your subsistence there, and your passage home again.”


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"