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Significados de workhouse em inglês

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Place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment.

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Uso de workhouse em inglês
1
He is defeated in the economic struggle, and goes to the workhouse.
What's Wrong with the World
2
For some reason he never went home, and died in the workhouse.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
3
The board-room at the workhouse is a large and apparently comfortable apartment.
Hodge and His Masters
4
Thence to the English poor-law and the workhouse is but a step.
The Conquest of Bread
5
Do you know how many workhouse places there are in the county?
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
6
I made my way down the hill, and over to the workhouse.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
7
And if he will not, we shall send him to the workhouse.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
8
No food is to be supplied to it from the workhouse kitchen.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
9
She telled me my poor wench went to the workhouse fra there.
Lizzie Leigh
10
You shall go to the workhouse on Blackwells Island for five days.
The Nine-Tenths
11
She would have to spend the night in the workhouse, and then?
Esther Waters
12
The infant borne to the workhouse of St. Bartimeus was Ginx's Baby.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
13
The doctor strongly urged that she should go to the workhouse infirmary.
Dick and Brownie
14
Who drove his children to the workhouse? and other unkind personal questions.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
15
What can save you from the workhouse-mefrom the hulks or gibbet?
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
16
They'll take the brat from you, and put her in the workhouse!
A Rough Shaking
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