Facility to support and provide housing for the dependent and needy.
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Examples for "workhouse"
Examples for "workhouse"
1He is defeated in the economic struggle, and goes to the workhouse.
2For some reason he never went home, and died in the workhouse.
3The board-room at the workhouse is a large and apparently comfortable apartment.
4Thence to the English poor-law and the workhouse is but a step.
5Do you know how many workhouse places there are in the county?
1He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg.
2Born in the poorhouse, you're in a fair way to die there.
3Fools to the state school for the feeble-minded, cripples to the poorhouse.
4Madhouse or poorhouse: is that what his choices have been reduced to?
5The distance to the poorhouse was about a mile and a half.
1He had resumed his usual almshouse tone, civil and a little plaintive.
2It was also because the almshouse was there, and Headmaster Eben Ausley.
3Then to the almshouse and the hospital, the beggars at the gate.
4The daily routine of the almshouse from year to year was little changed.
5Even the kind old lady at the almshouse had not entered his life.
1There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy-atleast in a poor asylum like ours.
Translations for poor asylum