The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference

"Do you know," said Gloriana, as the black-eyed girl finished relating the afternoon's happenings to her, "I half believe that man snooping around the pesthouse is the robber.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

Susan Balée asks Jim Crace Where 'the pesthouse' came from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today's Inquirer reviews ...] Reference

We've been running a pesthouse (flu, ear infections, pinkeye, you name it) here for near on a month and I just can't bring myself to yell for help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Community] Reference

"It's nice to have a Niece Gloriana, too," he answered gruffly, clearing his throat with much gusto; and as there seemed to be nothing further to say, the trio turned from the lonely pesthouse, and silently climbed the hill toward town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

But this afternoon while the assayer was dragging you out of the prospect hole, and I was watching through your field glasses, I happened to turn them in the direction of the pesthouse, and there he was again, humped up on the doorsill, watching through glasses of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

The door of the pesthouse had opened abruptly and a short, portly man roughly dressed, unshaved and florid of complexion, appeared on the threshold a moment, eyed the approaching girls indifferently, glanced searchingly toward town, and again vanished within, closing the door behind him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

At all events, there he was, standing erect behind the rail, surprised to find the avenues so large, so silent, the window curtains down, and Paris as gloomy as a great pesthouse; flags everywhere, but such strange flags bearing a red cross on a white field, and no crowd to meet our soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference

Brother Ray said he was all right at the pesthouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray] Reference

The pesthouse doctors could do little more than treat the patients' symptoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

It was the time of cholera; the boat might have become a pesthouse any moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference

Brother Ray always says, "They gave me the name of Elder Ray at the pesthouse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray] Reference

Later, epidemics of smallpox and cholera have made a prison and a pesthouse of Manila.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference

He laughed, danced and sang at the pesthouse -- things he was never known to do before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference

My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

My mother would sooner have entered a pesthouse than the banqueting-hall where they feast, on Olympus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thorny Path — Complete] Reference

We only had one in the Mission, but I was glad to have him take it as I had heard how filthy it was at the pesthouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray] Reference

Page 133 was on his feet again and it was time for the scabs to fall off, the officers came for him and took him to the pesthouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray] Reference

In a period less remote we find Adrian Beverland wandering away from the true realm of poetry and taking up his abode in the pesthouse of immorality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books Fatal to Their Authors] Reference

One of his brethren was equally positive that I might partake of bacon and even ham in moderation, but urged that I walk around red meat as though it were a pesthouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Third Off] Reference

” The other summoned the occupants of a smallpox smitten tenement to the hall door and cautioned them to say nothing about it to any one, or he would send them all to the pesthouse!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. Battling Against Heavy Odds] Reference

Margaret, one of the residents of Ferrytown, is showing all the early signs of the Flux, so her family shave off her bright red hair and send her up to the pesthouse, an isolated cabin in the woods.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpikeMagazine.com] Reference

The largest of the beach shanties, one which stood by itself a quarter of a mile from the light, was hurriedly prepared for use as a pesthouse and the sick sailor was carried there on an improvised stretcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keziah Coffin] Reference

Especially she shunned Nutt's shop as she would have shunned a pesthouse; although this course obliged her to go two miles farther to another village to procure necessaries whenever she had money to pay for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ishmael In the Depths] Reference

The pious captain, it is true, was as reluctant to let his daughter go to the heretic's as to a pesthouse, but Wolf's notification permitted no delay, so he consented, and expressed his willingness to accompany her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

But their first feeling of surprise was soon followed by terror, a growing terror, as if they beheld the opening of some pesthouse of ancient times, some hospital of the legendary ages, evacuated after a great epidemic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2] Reference

From there they were ferried off Manhattan and many more miles upriver to the city smallpox hospital, the "pesthouse" on North Brother Island, a nineteen-acre wooded island situated between Rikers Island and the Bronx mainland.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

I cannot say, but, upon inquiry, many that complained so loudly were found in a condition to be continued; and others again, inspection being made upon the sick person, on his being content to be carried to the pesthouse, were released.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference

It was built for a pesthouse, but the doctors decided the patient didn't have smallpox after all, so the building has never been used. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference

I was taken to the pesthouse near Westbourne Green, where I have been for the last three weeks. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire] Reference

Your nurse is plague-stricken, my dear, and lies ill unto death in the pesthouse in Finsbury Fields. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Midnight Queen] Reference

The pesthouse was two miles from the city limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray] Reference

A pesthouse to me, in Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Revised] Reference

This is a pesthouse, sir. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference

This is a pesthouse, sir.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [War and Peace] Reference