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Meanings of almshouse in English
Facility to support and provide housing for the dependent and needy.
Usage of almshouse in English
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.
6
The almshouse alone will open its doors for the helpless one.
7
On the other hand, we shall not relegate the old to an almshouse.
8
You won't have to stay in the almshouse all your life.
9
She was a widow, living, I afterwards learnt, in an almshouse hard by.
10
In this almshouse there are sixty-eight boys, ages seven to seventeen.
11
If you choose a merchant I shall go to an almshouse.
12
We cannot even go into an almshouse without shedding her blood.
13
The young man... has lived in an almshouse for much of his life.
14
His house was school, hospital, and almshouse, and he lived entirely for others.
15
She oughtn't to go into an almshouse if she is rich, said Susy.
16
The almshouse, as it existed in the last century, was productive of much evil.
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