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Significados de workhouse em inglês

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

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Examples for "spike"
Examples for "spike"
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Recent months have seen a spike in violence linked to Nigerian gangs.
The Guardian
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However, the spike in new cases has thrown the plan into doubt.
Reuters
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The country introduced the new laws following a spike in measles cases.
News.com.au
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Some parts of the country have seen a recent spike in cases.
Reuters
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He called it 'gear' and referred to the hypodermic as a 'spike'.
Naomi’s Room
Uso de workhouse em inglês
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He is defeated in the economic struggle, and goes to the workhouse.
What's Wrong with the World
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For some reason he never went home, and died in the workhouse.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
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The board-room at the workhouse is a large and apparently comfortable apartment.
Hodge and His Masters
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Thence to the English poor-law and the workhouse is but a step.
The Conquest of Bread
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Do you know how many workhouse places there are in the county?
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
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I made my way down the hill, and over to the workhouse.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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And if he will not, we shall send him to the workhouse.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
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No food is to be supplied to it from the workhouse kitchen.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
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She telled me my poor wench went to the workhouse fra there.
Lizzie Leigh
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You shall go to the workhouse on Blackwells Island for five days.
The Nine-Tenths
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She would have to spend the night in the workhouse, and then?
Esther Waters
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The infant borne to the workhouse of St. Bartimeus was Ginx's Baby.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
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The doctor strongly urged that she should go to the workhouse infirmary.
Dick and Brownie
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Who drove his children to the workhouse? and other unkind personal questions.
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
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What can save you from the workhouse-mefrom the hulks or gibbet?
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
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They'll take the brat from you, and put her in the workhouse!
A Rough Shaking
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