Now it may come to this, as Mr. Belloc maintains, but it is not the theory on which what we call the workhouse does in fact rest. From Wordnik.com. [Eugenics and Other Evils] Reference
Could words of man go more deeply home to a young heart caged within workhouse walls?. From Wordnik.com. [Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale] Reference
The alternative to the workhouse is to go home to Ireland and burden his friends for the rest of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Inefficiency] Reference
To Joan, the workhouse was a word of shame unutterable. From Wordnik.com. [Lying Prophets] Reference
Economically, too, the workhouse is a heavy loss and drag. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
Stem cells produce progenitor cells, or so-called workhouse cells. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: Top Stories] Reference
The board-room at the workhouse is a large and apparently comfortable apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Hodge and His Masters] Reference
I can't understand why a place should be called a workhouse where they do nothing at all. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Jack] Reference
Nice to see that the old "workhouse" principal still has some mileage in it. From Wordnik.com. [Another Letter Another Rejection] Reference
The workhouse is the proper place for him; let his kin claim him, if he's got any. ". From Wordnik.com. [Brother Jacob] Reference
"workhouse" and its officers among the most devoted. From Wordnik.com. [LAPD Blog] Reference
Of 3,000 persons admitted to the workhouse in Salem. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
ABERGAVENNY to purchase the local workhouse for £3,000. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
It was really hunger which drove me to the workhouse door. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
A little spendthrift who will bring us all to the workhouse!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
'No, the workhouse would not suit you; no easy-chairs there. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
And, at Hammersmith, even the workhouse would have none of me!. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
We are no better than the publicans, for we have no workhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The workhouse (Hospice de la Charité) contains generally from. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Thence to the English poor-law and the workhouse is but a step. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
"Poor Rachel will have to be sent to the workhouse now," said Joe. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3] Reference
If you would have no resource when past labor but a workhouse, be a. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Some say she was born in a workhouse, a caravan, or an East-end doss. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
North from the hospice or workhouse, near the bridge of Ainay across the. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Such children, when nursed by their mothers in the workhouse, generally live. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
One workhouse prisoner was released because he knew how to run the water-works pumps. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
"Cobbler" Horn ordered his closed carriage, and drove to the workhouse without delay. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
"He'll drive us to the workhouse," grumbled Trampy, staring before him, with folded arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The city of Berlin operates large sewage farms, using as laborers men condemned to the workhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
We had not gone many yards from the workhouse gates before we were confronted by something like chaos. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
There is something quite apt about the headquarters of Asdan being located in an old workhouse for children. From Wordnik.com. [Does skills-based learning face a lean future?] Reference
"Do you wish any steps taken with regard to the workhouse, Mr. Granby?" asked the doctor, preparing to depart. From Wordnik.com. [Wikkey A Scrap] Reference
Meanwhile it looks as if the Socialist ideal of driving our landed gentry into the workhouse is already being realised. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 22, 1914] Reference
"Which is the way to the workhouse, Polly?" he inquired of the little lodging-house servant who came to clear the table. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The remainder of the party might have been supposed, without any remarkable stretch of imagination, to have emerged from the workhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
It was not the first time that the workhouse had been threatened; the dread of her life was that the threat should be carried into effect. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
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