How To Use pesthouse In A Sentence
- The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines
- But this afternoon while the assayer was dragging you out of the prospect hole, and I was watching through your field glasses, I happened to turn them in the direction of the pesthouse, and there he was again, humped up on the doorsill, watching through glasses of his own. Tabitha's Vacation
- We had decided that if we got the smallpox we would go to the pesthouse together, but we heard of the awfully insanitary conditions there, and that they used blankets from one patient's bed for another, so I thought that as long as I did not have it I had better not go and get it. Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray
- At this broad hint, the curious crowd reluctantly withdrew, and left the trio alone at the pesthouse threshold. Tabitha's Vacation
- At one time, the pesthouse became a sanatorium, until vaccination put it out of business. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
- Susan Balée asks Jim Crace Where 'the pesthouse' came from. Today's Inquirer reviews ...
- At all events, there he was, standing erect behind the rail, surprised to find the avenues so large, so silent, the window curtains down, and Paris as gloomy as a great pesthouse; flags everywhere, but such strange flags bearing a red cross on a white field, and no crowd to meet our soldiers. Short Stories of Various Types
- Not to be off-putting, Professor Shandy, but did you know that this building was once the regional pesthouse ? SOMETHING IN THE WATER
- It's nice to have a Niece Gloriana, too," he answered gruffly, clearing his throat with much gusto; and as there seemed to be nothing further to say, the trio turned from the lonely pesthouse, and silently climbed the hill toward town. Tabitha's Vacation
- Do you know," said Gloriana, as the black-eyed girl finished relating the afternoon's happenings to her, "I half believe that man snooping around the pesthouse is the robber. Tabitha's Vacation
