How To Use Poorhouse In A Sentence
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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.
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Some housing projects would have to remain as de facto poorhouses for the most dysfunctional.
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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.
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In contrast, 19th century poorhouses burst at the seams, and their regimes became more totalitarian in response.
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Pop regularly trumpeted the strains of British rule: evictions, poorhouses, famine.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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And if you didn't pay the bills it was the poorhouse, or transportation to Australia, or hanging, or all three…
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You may perhaps have some pleasant, drilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
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For example, what were these poorhouses like, why did these towns build poor houses, did the towns differentiate between poorhouses and workhouses, and why for the most part, were these institutions temporary?
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Free trade unpeoples villages and peoples poorhouses, consolidates farms, and gluts the graveyards with famished corpses.
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Instead single parents indentured their children and many others came from the poorhouse and other asylums.
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A second way of aiding the poor, which developed in many towns especially from the 1750's onward, was to build poorhouses, workhouses, or town farms where people would work for the town for their support.
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The poorhouses were built, and were soon stocked with vermined rags, and broken hearts.
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In fact, Robert E. Cray argues in his book on poor relief in New York that many rural towns erected workhouses and poorhouses before the American Revolution.
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But what of the mothers, women imprisoned and committed to poorhouses, punished for their wanton lusts rather than neglect of children?
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I was a poor lone creeter in the poorhouse when Jabez Potter came and took me out.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies
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The creation of an almshouse or a poorhouse was not necessarily due to any particular function of the town, but may have been influenced by a particularly powerful selectmen.
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As a result, the rich blink another time Heng Kong born, a simple and thrifty and the poorhouse so the annihilation.
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The poorhouses and the debtors' prisons have long since closed.
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The difference between poorhouses and workhouses in Bridgewater is more ambiguous.
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By 1878 it had 2,700 sisters, and was the main provider of housing for the old outside hospitals and poorhouses.
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It is conceivable that Plymouth officials housed paupers in the poorhouses of one of the neighboring towns, as permitted by the 1774 statute.
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Desperately seeking a change of fortune, the Cardans moved to Milan, but here they fared even worse and they had to ignominiously enter the poorhouse.
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Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.
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[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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Similarly, in 1795 J M Good, a physician who carried out a painstaking examination of diseases of prisons and poorhouses, wrote, ‘No medicine is much more advantageous than the daily changing of linen.’
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The Collins girls were from Tyringham and the Paynes, who were born in Connecticut, may have been indentured from the poorhouse of Norwalk or Bridgeport as well.
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One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
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Then before the week is out they'd ship you off to the poorhouse, or find an excuse to send you back to England.
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