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 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.
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.
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