Facility to support and provide housing for the dependent and needy.
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Examples for "workhouse"
Examples for "workhouse"
1
He is defeated in the economic struggle, and goes to the workhouse.
2
For some reason he never went home, and died in the workhouse.
3
The board-room at the workhouse is a large and apparently comfortable apartment.
4
Thence to the English poor-law and the workhouse is but a step.
5
Do you know how many workhouse places there are in the county?
1
He had resumed his usual almshouse tone, civil and a little plaintive.
2
It was also because the almshouse was there, and Headmaster Eben Ausley.
3
Then to the almshouse and the hospital, the beggars at the gate.
4
The daily routine of the almshouse from year to year was little changed.
5
Even the kind old lady at the almshouse had not entered his life.
1
There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy-atleast in a poor asylum like ours.
1
He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg.
2
Born in the poorhouse, you're in a fair way to die there.
3
Fools to the state school for the feeble-minded, cripples to the poorhouse.
4
Madhouse or poorhouse: is that what his choices have been reduced to?
5
The distance to the poorhouse was about a mile and a half.
6
Just about went to the poorhouse, but I'm glad I did it.
7
The poorhouse folks are going to ask me what becomes of him.
8
I'd hoped he'd fall in love, not end up in the poorhouse.
9
For the first time she looked fully at the Cooneys' poorhouse idol.
10
Blathersville wants a Nicholson pavement-itwants a jail and a poorhouse more.
11
I reckon Turner'll know I ain't in the poorhouse yet-ornear it.
12
God, that girl will put me in the poorhouse!' She softened slightly.
13
Do you remember saying one day that I'd end in the poorhouse?
14
There's no place that I can send you to except the poorhouse.
15
Decidedly-asmild-mannereda man as ever asked grace at a poorhouse table.
16
Then they take 'm to the poorhouse, where nobody but beggars live.
