104 examples of poorhouses in sentences

This is what he saw in Westport: "The town of Westport was in itself a strange and fearful sight, like what we read of in beleaguered cities; its streets crowded with gaunt wanderers, sauntering to and fro with hopeless air and hunger-stricken look; a mob of starved, almost naked women around the poorhouse clamoring for soup tickets; our inn, the headquarters of the road-engineer and pay-clerks, beset by a crowd begging for work.

Even the poorhouses shut up, and paupers did not escape.

The churches were half empty; the temperance reading-rooms were shut up; the Mechanics' Institute no longer got support; only the jails and the poorhouses were crowded.

Normal life of any kind was out of the question in the poorhouse where he had spent the first ten years of his life, and after that he had not seen the inside of a schoolroom.

The reform schools, penitentiaries, prisons, insane asylums, hospitals, and poorhouses are all filled to overflowing; and it is entirely sensible to inquire how the people came there, and to relieve, pardon, bless, cure, or reform them as far as we can.

"I never heard of anyone going to the poorhouse, or into bankruptcy," I said, "because of the money spent on a child.

This includes all poorhouses, asylums, hospitals, and other institutions for adults and children who can not take care of themselves.

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The number of workers who, by reason of old age or other infirmity, are compelled to take refuge in the poorhouses, bears a larger proportion to the total population than it did a generation ago.

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He would have been dead or in prison or the poorhouse years ago if Carmen had not chosen to rescue him, more through a whim than from genuine charity.

He has been describing, with an unmitigated realism, the village poorhouse, in all its squalor and dilapidation: "There children dwell who know no parents' care: Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there.

You may have to go to the poorhouse.

It cost her pride a great deal to accept this favor from the boy she had looked down upon as "only an Irish boy," but her necessity was greater than her pride, and she saw no other way of escaping the poorhouse.

Discipline in the services, in poorhouses, and in schools was of the most brutal type.

I have spoken in previous chapters of the methods of discipline enforced in the services, in jails, in poorhouses, and in schools.[10] A very similar spirit prevailed even in the home.

Prisons and poorhouses were reformed.

From that center, march forth to glory or to the poorhouse, all those who one fine day have touched their throats and believed they have some talent for singing.

Taig: All we have to do is to crawl to the poorhouse gate.

Therefore they have no poorhouses where the poor may be taken care of.

If she wanted a Summer Kitchen or a new Wringer or a Sewing Machine, or Anything Else that would lighten her Labors, Henry would Moan and Grumble and say she was trying to land him in the Poorhouse.

The misery, which the administration had meant to relieve, went on increasing; begging was prohibited; refuges and workshops were annexed to the poorhouses; attempts were made to collect there all the old, infirm, and vagabond.

If I choose to take him from a foreign poorhouse and give him shelter, it's nobody's business, Louis Brossard, but my own.

There were no millionaires, no tramps, and the poorhouse had only a few inmates.

We find in the conversation of old people frequent mention of a class of beings well known in country parishes, now either become commonplace, like the rest of the world, or removed altogether, and shut up in poorhouses or madhousesI mean the individuals frequently called parochial idiots; but who were rather of the order of naturals.

104 examples of  poorhouses  in sentences