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How To Use poorhouse In A Sentence

• Among these visitors were people from the poorhouse, and the pauper, who was ‘deficient in intellect,’ but who Thoreau thought to be in better shape than many people who were much smarter, because he knew and told the truth.
• Some housing projects would have to remain as de facto poorhouses for the most dysfunctional.
• Whether you're getting by on £300, £3,000 or £300,000 a month, spending more than you rake in will put you in the poorhouse.
• In contrast, 19th century poorhouses burst at the seams, and their regimes became more totalitarian in response.
• Pop regularly trumpeted the strains of British rule: evictions, poorhouses, famine.
• He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it. CHAPTER 2
• This is the story of the intrepid lacemakers of Loughborough, whose struggle to earn a living took some of them to Devon, some of them to Calais, and finally - trapped between the poorhouses of England and the French Revolution of 1848-to a new life in the colonies of Australia.
• This fact came to the public ear, and the trustees of the poorhouse, in accordance with their own convictions and in compliance with the complexional prejudices of the community, discharged the Quaker for this breach of the law. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
• And the reality was, that without some kind of financial support, the widow and the children would end up in the poorhouse, and that was the basis for the legislation.
• How can a sane person defend leaving sick people to rot and send bankrupted people to the poorhouse while the healthcare industry monopoly enjoys gold plated dildoes? Think Progress » Graham Falsely Claims GOP Has Only Used Reconciliation With ‘Bipartisan Support’