poorhouse

How To Use poorhouse In A Sentence

• 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.
• Then before the week is out they'd ship you off to the poorhouse, or find an excuse to send you back to England. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.’
• [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
• 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.
• 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.
• It is conceivable that Plymouth officials housed paupers in the poorhouses of one of the neighboring towns, as permitted by the 1774 statute.
• By 1878 it had 2,700 sisters, and was the main provider of housing for the old outside hospitals and poorhouses.