| 单词 | poorhouse |
| 例句 | The pump was set in a little shed at the edge of the Common, a big gathering place ringed by army barracks, the poorhouse, and the jail. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ought to be aware, Miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poorhouse.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Now the annoying woman would go to the poorhouse. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t care that he’s too earnest or that he doesn’t know what he wants or that he’s harboring dreams of being a poet, a profession that leads to heartbreak and the poorhouse. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I know he is right, and I know the real reason I stole it is that I was angry at the bosses at the poorhouse, angry at our landlord, angry at the world. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The hungry little boy in the story had held up his bowl to the poorhouse overseer and said: “Please sir, I want some more.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “This will bring a pretty penny,” they said at the poorhouse. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He reminded me of those aged invalids you see in the poorhouse. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z As if I wanted to live in the poorhouse. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Railroad Tommy had given him a janitor’s job to save him from the poorhouse, workhouse, or nuthouse, one. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m supposed to end in the poorhouse? If the young idealist wrote it, he goes to jail for forgery.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a philosophy that worked for me in the poorhouse, on the streets of London, and at the orphanage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The child was in some kind of poorhouse, it seemed, and he was hungry. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the advertisements, the site includes links to maps, letters, reviews, illustrations, and biographical material, along with essays on subjects like Victorian sanitation, education policy, poorhouses, and wooden legs. ArtsBeat: And Now a Word from Charles Dickens's Sponsor... 2012-04-05T19:27:48Z She’s not a nurturing mother, but she is extremely influenced by the fact that she doesn’t want her daughter to end up in the poorhouse. Kate Beckinsale on Her 'Early Feminist Fighter' in Whit Stillman's Love & Friendship 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Even if you go in the poorhouse, you’ve spent your money wisely.’” Is This the Best-Kept Secret in Fashion? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s not as if the network that broadcasts the show, CBS, is trying to avoid the poorhouse. ArtsBeat: A Commercial, Sandwiched Between Lines of Dialogue on 'Hawaii Five-0' 2012-01-18T23:15:13Z I’m sure the polite Victorians did not want to hear about poorhouses and orphanages and yet they were waiting each month for the next installment.” An Appalachian Elegy, Hillbillies Not Included 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Black parents searched on their own, scouring orphanages, prisons, poorhouses. When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z For the poor, she argues, government data and its abuses have imposed a new regime of surveillance, profiling, punishment, containment and exclusion, which she evocatively calls the “digital poorhouse.” How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “My father grew up in the Newburgh poorhouse, ‘the pokey.’ James Patterson, honored for his literacy work, says we must do more 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Indeed, as with the 19th-century poorhouse, she argues, the shiny new digital one allows us to “manage the individual poor in order to escape our shared responsibility for eradicating poverty.” How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Poverty, Eubanks argues, has become increasingly criminalized by the government’s use of data surveillance to harass people who are economically struggling and to deny them social and medical services, relegating them to the “digital poorhouse.” New in Paperback: ‘Crudo’ and ‘How Long ’til Black Future Month?’ 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z As a local informant explains, speaking of himself and his wife, “We’re not Catholics, but that church saved the town. Everybody knows that. This crazy man could send us back to the poorhouse.” Review | How does he do it? John Sandford’s ‘Holy Ghost’ is another winner. 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Your only hope for some medical care was the council poorhouse that accepted indigent patients. The coalition's attacks on the NHS will return us to the age of the workhouse 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z She travels to Indiana, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, conducting illuminating interviews with administrators, social services staff and, most powerfully, people unlucky enough to reside in the digital poorhouse. How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z When Marla Carter visits her mother-in-law at a nursing home in Owensboro, Kentucky, the scene feels more 19th-century poorhouse than modern-day America. In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z When Marla Carter visits her mother-in-law at a nursing home in Owensboro, Kentucky, the scene feels more 19th-century poorhouse than modern-day America. In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Because no matter what distance I travel from childhood, I still feel one foot in the poorhouse. Kendrick Lamar’s Unconstrained Next Chapter 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z I recently read Dorothea Dix’s 1843 report on her investigation into the care of mentally ill people in poorhouses and prisons in Massachusetts. Opinion | We need an army of people like this psychiatric nurse 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The night our world changed, I was in a copper baron’s palatial Adirondack home, writing about the history of the poorhouse. His PTSD, and My Struggle to Live With It 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z That attitude can be seen in the harsh, inhumane workhouses and poorhouses that used to be common features of life in Great Britain and the United States. Manchin's means-testing requirement is a recipe for building back worse 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z In the mid-1800s, the city of Georgetown kept its poorhouse and workhouse in the community, where Guy Mason Recreation Center is now located, near Calvert and 36th streets NW. Northwest D.C.’s Glover Park is ‘so close to everything, yet far enough away’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Its inventor, Barthélemy Thimonnier, was twice attacked by mobs of tailors worried about losing their jobs; he died in a poorhouse. Francis Criss painted 'Alma Sewing' as a study of composure, and unruliness America's jails and prisons have become de facto poorhouses where many thousands of people exist in legal limbo because they cannot pay small cash bail amounts. As the right ramps up the cruelty and dread, it's time to stay clear-headed — and fight back 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Austerity had not only not ended crime but was driving working-class people into the poorhouse. The crisis of neoliberalism: America arrives at one of history’s great crossroads 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Churches also used enslaved people in poorhouses to take care of orphans, the disabled or elderly, and hired them out to any business or enterprise that wanted their labor. Virginia churches reckon with history in slave trade 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z At the Fit4All Gym in Lebanon, Illinois, owner David Tate considers Elon Musk a huge ally in the fight against government coronavirus orders that Tate says are driving him into the poorhouse. Musk becomes champion for businesses defying shutdown orders 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “I was afraid I’d put my family in the poorhouse because every time I went by an antique store I’d go in and buy watches,” he said. This 25-pound, 1,600-page opus exhumes a forgotten American watch company 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “We were in the poorhouse when Citibank called us,” the governor recalled in a later interview. The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z It is likely to provide the definitive snapshot of where the world lies now, and where it is going, addressing the harassment, targeting and punishment of those living in the rapidly expanding digital poorhouse. Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z One was the Know-Nothing movement of the 1850s, which led to deportations of Irish migrants found in Massachusetts poorhouses. Thousands from ‘huddled masses’ rejected as paupers in year poem added to Statue of Liberty 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Political scientist Virginia Eubanks of the University at Albany, State University of New York, coined the phrase ‘digital poorhouse’ to describe the effects of AI and automation on low-income households and communities. Policies designed for drugs won’t work for AI 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The misbegotten wars in Iraq and Afghanistan they got us into and spent us into the poorhouse with? Donald Trump is the perfect Republican 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Thomas Jefferson advocated confinement in poorhouses for vagabonds who “waste their time in idle and dissolute courses.” Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In France less than two centuries later, Louis XIV ordered that all Gypsy men be condemned to forced labour for life without trial, women be sterilised and children be sent to poorhouses. Italy's treatment of Roma people rooted in centuries-old prejudice 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z In 1854, the county opened a poorhouse and farm and gradually added an insane asylum, infirmary and tuberculosis hospital to the property. Challenge at Chicago school construction site: Watch for 38,000 unmarked graves 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z When it comes to the lives of the people whose homes he supervises, Carson bears more than a superficial resemblance to a Dickensian poorhouse supervisor. Opinion | A $31,000 dining room set for Ben Carson? Typical Trump administration behavior. 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z This movie idea was his last chance to avoid the poorhouse. The Story Behind ‘A Christmas Story’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Thenceforth Sharp devoted all his energies to collecting lullabies, carols, love songs and work songs—in streets and kitchens, out in the fields and in the poorhouse. English folk song, a great tradition 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Critics of repressive governments often find themselves subjected to smears that, if they had been directed towards people within those governments, would have led to jail, the poorhouse or the morgue. Critics of oppressive governments often end up defamed 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z “Many, many plans were great before Obamacare. That doesn’t justify the system before Obamacare. But people are miserable now. It’s putting them in the poorhouse.” Donald Trump says people are ‘miserable’ under Obamacare 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z They include everything from marriage records and death certificates to election results and poorhouse records. Old court records revealing history of Indiana county 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z One turn-of-the-century photograph shows five of them: three seated women and two men, all residents of the poorhouse. What DNA reveals about St Helena’s freed slaves 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The United States, if it continues to be the world’s asylum and poorhouse, would soon wreck its present economic life,” the New York Chamber of Commerce warned in 1934. Anne Frank today is a Syrian girl 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z This sometimes meant that they were shepherded into county poorhouses, where the able-bodied were compelled to work and children were made to study. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The increased cost for some enrollees, Thissen said, means “the poorhouse is back in the picture.” Costs skyrocket for feds’ long-term-care insurance 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z And yet, though Mr. Kent’s total pay fell by 42 percent in 2015, with a package of $14.6 million, he is not headed for the poorhouse. Investors Get Stung Twice by Executives’ Lavish Pay Packages 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z In contrast, prisons and poorhouses have long operated as deterrents, suffering under the belief that “direct public provision – actually taking care of people – would foster laziness and immorality”, Fraser says. Andrea Fraser: the artist turning the Whitney into a prison 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Older Americans remember the poorhouse , where the old and infirm were hidden away to die. ‘Promise you’ll never put me in a nursing home’ 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The judge dispatched Soapy, and his dashed conversion, away to the poorhouse. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z In 1839, Wayne County established a farm and poorhouse that eventually expanded to cover a whopping 902 acres across 70 buildings. The horror of Eloise hospital: haunted Michigan mental asylum goes up for sale 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z “Most people I work with, it’s not like they will live in the poorhouse,” he says. Afraid your retirement nest egg won’t last long? You’re not alone. 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z He argued that poorhouses should be punitive, designed to dissuade people from seeking assistance, and that the only value in a dead body is in its use to the living. Dissected Bodies And Grave Robbing Evidence Of Unequal Treatment Of 19th Century Blacks And Poor 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z New York could no longer serve as both poorhouse and cash machine for the nation. 'Welcome to Fear City' – the inside story of New York's civil war, 40 years on 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Instead of well-ordered refuges, however, the poorhouses were usually awful places, home to both the young and old, the sane and insane, the decrepit and the drunk. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z The road to the poorhouse is paved with companies once considered darlings. Built For Marketing: Why The S&P 500 And Dow Are Misleading Investors 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Her fortune was wiped out by the 1929 crash and she wound up in a poorhouse, a quick fall from great heights that might remind Giants fans of their team’s trajectory. Jets? Giants? Better Ways to Spend Your Sunday 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z While Schlossberg’s newfound spending didn’t put her in the poorhouse, it didn’t get her ahead, either. How To Keep Lifestyle Inflation From Sabotaging Your Finances 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Haven’t people learned that penny stocks are the short cut to the poorhouse? Buy A Piece Of The Small Cap Market 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Not all the poor suffered the poorhouse, of course. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z This, of course, makes no economic sense, since killing your own workers is an even stupider business strategy than underpaying them — and a sure-fire path to the poorhouse. ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ movie review: A heavy-handed, gory sequel But what is less well-known is the name of a Scot who spent part of his childhood in a Highland poorhouse before playing a key part in establishing association football in Messi's home city. Messi, his home city and... Dingwall? 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Yet she wound up in a poorhouse, her cot lit by a naked bulb. She Did It Her Way 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Mock said two poorhouses were located in the park up until sometime in the 1960s and that those buried on the grounds probably resided there. Weird Golf News of the Week: Nearly 100 unmarked graves discovered at golf course: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z It went the way of the county poorhouse and "scientific charity" and a thousand other well-intentioned attempts that did not work well enough. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z "This was going to put us in the poorhouse." Electricity prices may be going up for good 2014-04-26T14:06:00Z “Nobody knows what will happen in the next 20 to 50 years. The question is what will happen to us? We will once again become the poorhouse of the nation.” Atterwasch Journal: German Village Resists Plans to Strip It Away for the Coal Underneath 2014-02-19T02:08:02Z In other words, you can’t take our word to the bank, but you can take it to the poorhouse. Why Congress and Standard & Poor's Deserve Each Other 2011-11-10T02:35:00Z It locked them up instead in poorhouses of Dickensian cruelty. What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers and the Economy 2013-11-27T11:00:38Z “We all used sports to say we’re going to get out of the ghetto, out of the poorhouse,” Hunter said. D.C. basketball legends help JoJo Hunter get out of prison — and rebuild his life 2013-08-04T00:07:07Z “That doesn’t leave us in the poorhouse,” he said. Astronomers Spot Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto 2012-07-13T03:06:33Z Wilberforce and others formed hundreds of small societies for improving human welfare, preventing cruelty to animals, reforming poorhouses and prisons. Interview: Religious-Right Leader Chuck Colson 2012-04-21T06:30:00Z Another and wholly diverse tale says that the baby was not born at sea at all, but in the Providence, Rhode Island, poorhouse, and of unknown parentage. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Visiting a country "poorhouse" recently, we were shown a "Comfort-apple" which had been sent to one of the inmates by a friend; for even paupers have friends. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Why, doctor! if I let that poor fellow go to the hospital, among utter strangers, handed down the line you don't know where--poorhouse, asylum, and pauper's grave maybe, it would haunt me! Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Before the eyes of not a few rose the spectres of the poorhouse and a pauper funeral. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z When his young ones lay dead, and she was in the poorhouse, then he'd fold his hands and be content with his work. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z Everybody's got his teeth on edge agin the farmer, and if he don't grab at every penny in sight they'll have to lift him into a wagon and haul him to the poorhouse. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z The prisons, jails, poorhouses and asylums are crowded. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z New York has many such useful institutions,—hospitals, poorhouses, and houses of correction, in which latter the young, who may still be reclaimed, are not mixed with the old, hardened offenders, but are kept apart. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z He had been an orphan and had been sheltered in the Milton poorhouse. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z U. S. army and inmates of asylums, poorhouses and prisons, excluded from voting. Alden's Handy Atlas of the World 2012-01-02T03:00:16.440Z The last thing they want is to remind voters that their party initiated the war of choice that helped spend us into the poorhouse. Quiet Iraq Exit Won’t Have a Replay in Afghanistan: Noah Feldman 2011-12-24T17:21:22Z They should not maim and wear out their servants and then discharge them, and allow them to be supported in poorhouses. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Both editions of Social Statics deny the right of governments to support churches, public schools, boards of health, poorhouses, lighthouses, or mints. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z At the very time that he was said to be a pauper in the county poorhouse, he was entertaining such distinguished guests as William Lloyd Garrison. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z Are the public roads in your community under county or town control? the poorhouse? the assessment and collection of taxes? Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z I hope he sends the other six to the poorhouse. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z He no doubt expected that the boy would find himself in the poorhouse before he had been long out of his care; but Julian was not that sort of a 8 fellow. The Haunted Mine 2011-10-28T02:00:23.833Z The necessity of hospitals, asylums, and poorhouses is manifest. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z And to Tom he would say, "If you go on this way, you bad boy, we shall end our days in the poorhouse." Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z The poor of the town will to-day be entertained by the Consul at the poorhouse. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z “It put a lot of people in the poorhouse,” he said. Massachusetts Curbs Lifetime Alimony Payments 2011-09-27T01:16:20Z He was always as full of notions as a peddler's cart and if I took every one of 'em serious we'd either been Rockefellers or star boarders at the poorhouse, one or t'other. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z This is also the case with the boards of health, and the managers of poorhouses, cemeteries, public libraries, and parks. Liberty In The Nineteenth Century 2011-12-24T03:08:02.240Z She said that just below, near the poorhouse, was a large field called "Cat Swamp," because all the cats for miles around congregated here. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z Dickens has done a great work in directing the attention of society to its public institutions—especially to its orphan asylums and poorhouses. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z So for ten years they had run the poorhouse. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Oh, the disgrace! and likewise oh, the poorhouse! The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z In other words, you can't take our word to the bank, but you can take it to the poorhouse. Why Congress and Standard & Poor's Deserve Each Other 2011-08-17T15:45:00Z "Got a new gold-mining scheme again to put us all in the poorhouse?" Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z Of course, uncles and guardians just had to take little girls home and feed and clothe them—or else send them to a poorhouse. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z “There isn’t any,” was the cheerful answer; “if you stay here over night you’ll have to stay at the poorhouse.” Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z No, no, 'twas no use! he must go to the poorhouse! and so forth and so on. The Postmaster 2011-09-21T02:00:28.863Z For with no law to shield me, and with no “greenbacks” to defend myself with, what could I have done to escape another imprisonment, either in some asylum or poorhouse? Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z To hear you talk, anyone might suppose we were on the point of going to the poorhouse.” The Brute 2011-06-30T02:00:30.283Z Anyway, unless I have to go to the poorhouse myself, I reckon you needn’t worry about going,” and he coughed again drily. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z It was in the middle of this night that the experience came to me of the greatest sense of passive comfort that I have known—and think of the absurdity, in a poorhouse! Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z As nobody claimed him, he was placed in a local poorhouse and later bound out to a broken-down college professor, Caspar Potts, who had taken up farming for his health. Dave Porter on Cave Island A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission 2011-06-15T02:00:23.660Z But I’d ruther go back to the poorhouse to live than stay under this ruff with that gun all ready to shoot with.” Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam 2011-06-14T02:00:23.757Z He didn’t take me out o’ the poorhouse fifteen year or more ago jest ter sit around here an’ play lady. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z Maybe it would have been better if we had gone to the poorhouse. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z The poorhouse had its usual quota on the night of our sojourn; we found two paupers living there. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z These ruins form the chief object of interest in the town, but other buildings include the academy and the Black Isle combination poorhouse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Poor Anster used to tell of an Irish fortune so 'tied up' by law that it could not be untied, and left the heirs to die in the poorhouse. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z Then, as manager of the poorhouse of the district, the lawyer had bound Leo over to Daniel Hawkins at four dollars a month and found. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z “Maybe we ought to have gone to a poorhouse right at first,” stammered the little girl, when Mr. Stagg broke in on her observation in a voice so rough that she was startled. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z "Here's a cheque," said lawyer Angus, "'tis the best that I can do; Man, you'd have us in the poorhouse if you sang your sermons through!" The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Miss Schuyler was the organizing genius of the Bellevue Visiting Committee, which from visiting the poorhouses of Westchester County, progressed to the establishment of the first training school for nurses in this country. Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z He does not like to let Dodsborough for a "Union;" he says it's time enough when we go back there to make it a poorhouse. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z If I only could get back to the poorhouse! Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z Many in the receipt of even more than this sum annually, are now on the threshold of the poorhouse. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z If there is one road to the poorhouse which is freer from obstructions than all others, it is the road of the unknown author. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z There were no poorhouses and no orphan asylums. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Were you ever out of a squabble on the Bench or at the poorhouse? The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z When she died, he was sent to the poorhouse. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z The notion that the U.S. needs to develop weapons to protect its 20th Century instruments of war from 21st Century weapons is a sure route to the poorhouse. House Republicans Oppose Gates' Defense Cuts 2011-01-25T06:50:00Z A poorhouse, built several years ago, had to be sold because no one would go to it. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z One very interesting development in Stratford shows the difference between the poorhouses of subsequent centuries and the almshouses of Columbus' Century. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z What is there that can fall—except, perhaps, such goods as are exclusively designed for the construction of poorhouses! The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Then you shall be allowed the honour of accompanying me to the county jail, to the poorhouse, to the hospital, and to the morgue—the four greatest institutions of modern civilization. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z One day," said mamma, "a kind lady called at the poorhouse where Harry lived. Little Frankie and his Mother 2011-01-04T03:01:08.503Z Have I not had to beg the few thousand thalers from him that I required for my Kindergarten and for my poorhouse? Quisisana, or Rest at Last 2010-12-29T03:00:30.857Z The large Dundee hospital adjoins the poorhouse, and an epidemic hospital has been built in the Fair Muir district. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Helping other athletes get the information they need to avoid the poorhouse. For Pro Athletes, Business School Is No Game 2009-06-26T04:20:00Z They bled the town for little jobs, badly done, to keep out of the poorhouse. The Idyl of Twin Fires Of wheat and corn meal together the Italian peasant eats in a year only three-fourths as much as the inmate of an English poorhouse. Races and Immigrants in America The Yankee peddler yelled at the boy, "If you talk like that you will land in the poorhouse!" What You Can Do With Your Will Power She is to take some of her things with her to the poorhouse and the 103 rest is to be left until Sanders’s return, when she may rejoin him. The Little Minister "Well, thank goodness, you aint go no other relations you feel that way about," says Ma, "or we'd all be in the poorhouse shortly!" Believe You Me! From an economic point of view the government would be far richer through the amount saved from what otherwise would be required to provide prisons, poorhouses, and court expenses. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 In Pittsburg I found the jail well-nigh empty and the poorhouse without sufficient inmates to keep it clean. Victory out of Ruin "We might as well go to the poorhouse first as last," she said. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck I know she saved Nanny from the poorhouse, but I don’t know where she got the money. The Little Minister “They are classed with town-halls, police courts, prisons, and poorhouses as necessary adjuncts of our stage of civilization.” The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses The poorhouse, free beds in hospitals, distributing agencies. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women This is a dramatic narrative of the unaided rise of a fearless, ambitious boy from the lowest round of fortune’s ladder—the gate of the poorhouse—to wealth and the governorship of his native State. Corporal 'Lige's Recruit A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga "Still, Aunt Jane, if you would really prefer going to the poorhouse," said Ben, his eyes twinkling, "I will go round and see if you can get in." Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck “You all speak as if the poorhouse was a gaol,” the doctor said testily. The Little Minister The poorhouse at the end is a pleasanter life than scraping and denying yourself all along the road. The Shadow Do not capitalize postoffice, courthouse, poorhouse, council chamber, armory, cadets, police court, women's parlors. The Style Book of The Detroit News “If the government continues much longer,” they said, “the whole nation will be in the poorhouse.” The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) Benjamin, we are ruined; I shall end my days in the poorhouse after all. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck “Hold me tight,” the doctor whispered to Gavin, “or I’ll be leaving you to drive Nanny to the poorhouse by yourself.” The Little Minister Why! it’s the Spink man we’ve heard so much about–the boy who was taken out of the poorhouse by grandfather. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks Said I better go to the poorhouse but—won’t that boy never come!” Dorothy at Oak Knowe He ranted and swore, and told them both they would end in the poorhouse with their reckless extravagance. Checkers A Hard-luck Story So the poor woman wrote a doleful letter to Ben, in which she predicted that Tony and herself must soon go to the poorhouse. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck Within a squirrel’s leap of it an old woman was standing at the door of a mud house listening for the approach of the trap that was to take her to the poorhouse. The Little Minister Her sister explained what she knew of the man who–once a poorhouse boy–was now counted 145 a rich man and the proprietor of Diamond Grits, the popular breakfast food. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks Hitherto, the world's people, in trying to accumulate riches, or to escape the poorhouse, have had neither time nor inclination, to consider this most important of all questions. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century Well, ye 'll both o' ye end a couple of paupers and die in the poorhouse if this keeps up," he said, "with your fancy furniture and trips to Chicago. Checkers A Hard-luck Story My dear aunt," he wrote, "don't talk of going to the poorhouse just yet. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck This conclusive argument brought her prospective dower so close to Nanny’s eyes that it hid the poorhouse. The Little Minister The good old doctor had been called to attend the boy in some childish disease while he was an inmate of the county poorhouse. The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks To be kept out of the poorhouse seemed to be all that she could claim. Lady Anna Tuesday morning we visited the convent, nuns' schools, and the poorhouse with 400 helpless mortals, old and young; then took an Irish jaunting-car, and were driven some forty miles through "the Gap" to Glengariff. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years "My poor child," said his mother, "we are going to the poorhouse." Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck "This way, Harry," added Mr. Nason, the keeper of the poorhouse, who was doing the honors of the occasion to the representative of the people of Redfield. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks Where do you expect to end?" the Judge began irritably, "in the poorhouse? The Wishing Moon A few days later, without much pomp or ceremony, the opening of the scantily-furnished poorhouse took place. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 A man was making preparations to send his old father to the poorhouse, when his little child came up and said: “Papa, when you are old shall I have to take you to the poorhouse?” Sowing and Reaping In your case the one safe investment, the single way I see to keep you out of the poorhouse.” Aurora the Magnificent Harry West was a good boy, and a great favorite with the keeper of the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks Not until he wakes up some morning with the poorhouse staring him in the face does he give it serious consideration. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types It was only the poorhouse that had really brought him to his knees. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Yes, the mistake I made was when I took you in to save you from the poorhouse and give you a home. The Bondboy At Bramble Farm Betty had met Bob Henderson, a lad a year or so older than herself and a ward from the county poorhouse. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune The latter seemed to have absolute power at the poorhouse, and to be lord and master in Redfield. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks He could tell little about himself or how he had come in that position; and kind people had taken him in and later on had placed him in the local poorhouse. Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune The artisan had now, however, died with unexpected suddenness; and since his prot�g� could hardly be reckoned as part of the inheritance he left, it was necessary for the poorhouse to receive him. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Being bound out would not be so disgraceful as going to the poorhouse. The Bondboy Aunt Hope—and Aunt Charity—I was born in the Gladden county poorhouse, in the East.” Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune The poorhouse seemed like a paradise to such a fate. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks Some of the mean boys in the school occasionally referred to him as “that poorhouse nobody,” and this brought on several severe quarrels and even a fist fight or two. Dave Porter and His Double Or, The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune "To talk of my being in the poorhouse!" Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success The shadow of the poorhouse had stood in her way for years. The Bondboy Mother died the night I was born, and until I was ten I lived in the poorhouse. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune When Harry reached the poorhouse, Mr. Nason was absent, and one of the paupers told him that he had taken the horse and wagon. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks The ultimate fate of the worn-out labourer is the poorhouse, described in lines of which it is enough to say that Scott and Wordsworth learnt them by heart, and the melancholy deathbed already noticed. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It would be a great satisfaction to him to see the boy without a roof to shelter him, reduced to becoming a tramp or to take refuge in the poorhouse. Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success That consolation was to be denied her; the shadow of the poorhouse had advanced until it stood now at her door. The Bondboy An old bookman, investigating a pile of old books and records at the poorhouse, found that Saunders was my mother’s maiden name and he traced my relatives for me.” Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune There were no locks on the poorhouse doors, for burglars and thieves never invaded the home of the stricken, forsaken paupers. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks At last his delirium becoming stronger, he is carried to the poorhouse, and tells his story to the clergyman. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) "Is that the way you repay me for keeping you out of the poorhouse?" Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success Only the disgraced, the disowned, the failures, and the broken-minded made an end in the poorhouse in those vigorous days. The Bondboy Their first shock at hearing that their sister had died in the poorhouse gradually lessened, but they were still puzzled to account for the three years’ silence that had preceded his birth. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune Harry yawned, for he missed his accustomed sleep, and felt that a few hours' rest in his bed at the poorhouse was even preferable to navigating the river at midnight. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks More than two years ago George Bolingbroke warned me that I should end my days in the poorhouse, and it has come at last. The Romance of a Plain Man There isn't any danger of my going to the poorhouse. Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success “It–kind of–shook me,” she muttered, the mother-love, the honor and justice in her quailing heart shrinking back before the threat of that terrible disgrace–the poorhouse. The Bondboy Well, it has helped the undertaker, the jail and the poorhouse. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Aunty Gray, over to the poorhouse, used to call everybody an angel that brought her anything good. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks As for Theophilus, even the thought of the poorhouse does not appear to disturb him. The Romance of a Plain Man The fact is, my aunt doesn't fancy going to the poorhouse. Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success “I don’t know what ever made me pity your mother and keep her out of the poorhouse by takin’ in a loafer like you!” The Bondboy The locket fell into the hands of the mistress of the poorhouse, who was named Mrs. Bumble. Tales from Dickens "You will not wish to see the little poorhouse boy, then." Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks Mark my words, before he dies, he'll land his sister in the poorhouse, as sure as I sit here. The Romance of a Plain Man I did hope––for your sake and––on account of Uncle Issachar’s offer that I’d like to have one––but I’d rather go to the poorhouse! Our Next-Door Neighbors When there was a county poorhouse and no reason why they shouldn’t go to it! Cloudy Jewel He discovered that they had been taken into the poorhouse, and went there, but this was after Oliver had run away. Tales from Dickens Consequently, when he visited the poorhouse, he always spoke in the imperative mood. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks Mrs. Clay, poor lady, came to me on the point of tears—she'll be in the poorhouse yet, I was obliged to tell her so—and entreated me to make an effort to restrain Theophilus. The Romance of a Plain Man And— The soldiers perceiving he was in a violent fever, summoned the Jewish overseer, who carried him back into the poorhouse. Dreamers of the Ghetto I’m sure I hope you won’t go to the poorhouse through your stubbornness. Cloudy Jewel But let me tell you something, Dave Porter"—and now Link Merwell's face showed both cunning and hatred—"you found fault with that note I sent to you calling you a poorhouse nobody. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake "Boy, come here!" said Squire Walker, as he raised his arm majestically towards a youth who was picking up "windfalls" under the apple trees in front of the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks Why, if I'd loved a woman, she might have been born in the poorhouse for all the thought I'd have given it. The Romance of a Plain Man It will keep us out of the poorhouse. The Paliser case "You will be in the poorhouse or maybe even in jail if you tell somebody how we fix your playing," I warn him. The Flying Cuspidors You are a poorhouse nobody and nothing else. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake The paupers in the poorhouse lived sumptuously, compared with those who gathered around the board of Jacob Wire. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks So it is the poorhouse, which I have always dreaded.” David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West Yet here she is, a "single girl" in immigrant parlance; and work she must get somehow and somewhere, for there are no poorhouses or paupers here as yet. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand "It's about what I would expect from a boy brought up in a poorhouse." Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy He said he was raised in a poorhouse, just like myself, but he also said it was away down East and not anywhere near the vicinity of Crumville. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake There was none willing to assume the burden of bringing up the lonely little pilgrim, and he was sent to the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks The Brother would drive us doctors into the poorhouse, if he could keep up the pace. The Faith Healer A Play in Three Acts He could tell nothing about himself, and as nobody came to claim him, 12 he was taken to the local poorhouse, where he remained a number of years. Dave Porter and the Runaways Last Days at Oak Hall In times gone by Dave's enemies had called him "a poorhouse nobody"—something which had caused him a great deal of pain. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy "You are not a 'poorhouse nobody,' and everybody knows it." Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake The moral discipline of the poorhouse was not of the most salutary character. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks They were cast ashore without resources, hating the poorhouse as a shelter for their offspring, and abhorring the thought of selling themselves as laborers. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I “They can’t say I’m a poorhouse nobody now,” he told himself, and went back to Oak Hall once again, as set forth in “Dave Porter and His Classmates.” Dave Porter and the Runaways Last Days at Oak Hall His enemies called him "that poorhouse nobody," which hurt him deeply. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy I don't care if you did come from the poorhouse. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake The poorhouse was not a good place for the boy, and the wonder is that Harry, at twelve years of age, was not worse than we find him. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks It's that, or I'll pack you both off to the poorhouse. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill The lawsuit was not settled, but it was well known in the neighbourhood that Jan Persson had said Uncle Pelle should not go to the poorhouse while he had a home. The Golden House When a child, he had been picked up alongside of the railroad tracks by strangers and taken to the Crumville poorhouse. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy He also let slip that he, too, had been in a poorhouse when he was a little boy, and that he had never been able to learn where he had really come from. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake It was Ben Smart, a boy of fourteen, who lived near the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks She's too smart and bright to go to the poorhouse, when you die. The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Pelle had left a few trifles at the poorhouse, where he had been grudgingly received during his last long attack of serious illness. The Golden House His enemies could no longer twit him with being a "poorhouse nobody," yet they did all they could to dim his popularity and get him into trouble. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy Of course he may not be Porton's uncle at all—I know lots of children taken from poorhouses and orphan asylums who call the folks aunt and uncle. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake It was a practicable scheme of resistance, and he returned to the poorhouse, no longer fearful of the impending calamity. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks He has legalized the causes which fill the jails, the penitentiaries, the houses of correction, the poorhouses, and asylums with the blood of our hearts, even our children, and our children's children. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I like to eat and I don't want to spend my old age in the poorhouse. Otherwise Phyllis To be called a "poorhouse rat" had stung him to the quick, and once again when touched on that subject he had found his temper as ungovernable as ever. Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy "Now they can't say that I'm a 'poorhouse nobody,'" he told his chums, after having met his father. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake He felt that the world had cast him off, and refused him a home, even in the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks If I should leave him and then get sick he wouldn't take care of me, and I should have to go to the poorhouse. Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life "He gave a talk to the papers the next day, and told how many Irish paupers were in the poorhouse, and said how there must be an end to favoring the Irish." The Art of Disappearing Phil, suppose there, was a girl whose father had lost all his money and then had gone to work and died, and had left her and her mother just this side of the poorhouse. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 You see, I was on my way to the Crumville poorhouse. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake He had long ago forgotten the little prayers she had taught him, and none were said at the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks There are pointed out to us here three special hospitals, an observatory, a poorhouse and a public library, but there is not much of local interest. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands He was born in the poorhouse, an' I've heard his mother died. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life That would be enough to feed all the people in the poorhouses and the hospitals. The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two He had not forgotten how, in years gone by, his enemies had taunted him with being a "poorhouse nobody," and how he had had to fight his way through until his identity had been established. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake It was not the rough, but neat and comfortable little room in the poorhouse which greeted his dawning consciousness; it was the old forest and the dashing river. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks “The way things are breaking for us lately, we’ll be more likely to be inviting our friends to come and visit us in the poorhouse.” The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room "Tom wouldn't put on so many airs if his father had to go to the poorhouse," said Sinclair. The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains His aunt is in the poorhouse or something next to it; he’s just a common tough, without a cent to call his own.” Killykinick In a large, heavy hand were scrawled these words: "I think before long you will be getting what is coming to you, you poorhouse nobody." Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake The keeper of the poorhouse received Harry in sullen silence, and conducted him to the chamber in which he had been ordered to keep him a close prisoner. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks Later, just as these two Pharisees are about to send the old man to the poorhouse, Fred reappears and saves him from this disgrace. A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs "It is not right for you to spend money given to keep you out of the poorhouse in annoying your benefactor." Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter Have you an aunt in the poorhouse, as Minna Foster says?” Killykinick "Porton declared to me that he had been brought up in a Maine poorhouse." Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake In the afternoon Squire Walker came down to the poorhouse to subject Harry to a preliminary examination. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks She was from outside the state, but her uncle, Job Ore, was on our county board an' he got her into our poorhouse—like you can when you're in politics. Friendship Village "No. She could not return to the poorhouse—after fifteen years!" exclaimed the girl. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Yes: said I ought to be ditch-digging to keep her out of the poorhouse, instead of pushing in with 27 respectable boys here. Killykinick Link Merwell told Porton about how I had come from the poorhouse, and then the pair hatched up this game between them. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake He had acquired the low and vulgar habit of using profane language at the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks The poorhouse use' to be across the track, beyond the cemetery an' quite near my house. Friendship Village Aside from this, his stay at the capital had not been unprofitable, for he had preached five times a week in the poorhouse and conversed on the Lord's days with the convicts in the prison. George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God She was “thoroughbred;” her family one of the oldest in its native State; and though the poorhouse boy had no family pride of his own he was loyal to old Maryland and his earliest friend. Dorothy on a Ranch No danger of Parus bicolor coming to want or going to the poorhouse. Our Bird Comrades I was looking all day yesterday after a boy that ran away from the poorhouse, and came to the city for him. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks An' some o' the mothers says indignant: 'Old ladies from the poorhouse end o' the home—well, I should think not! Friendship Village Every school, college, hospital, asylum, and poorhouse is his prey. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan He was placed in the local poorhouse, and later on bound out to a broken-down college professor named Caspar Potts, who had taken to farming for his health. Dave Porter and His Rivals or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall Another shows her dying in the poorhouse before she is twenty, after one year of sinful indulgence and one year of lingering death. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade Our friends dine at the cottage; and, after dinner, Mr. Nason and Mr. West talk over old times, ride down to Pine Pleasant, and visit the poorhouse. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks An' when we come to the foot o' the poorhouse hill, land, land, I never see such Bedlam. Friendship Village If Sam Ross comes—Sam’s an idiot who lives at the poorhouse—if he comes, he’ll expect a dinner—my, my, I’m afraid he’ll cry when he finds we’re not here! The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Although a good mechanic, he developed into a lazy, bad man, who neglected his wife and children, and eventually landed in the poorhouse. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria My father and mother both died, leaving nothing, and the people wanted to send me to the poorhouse; but I didn't like that, so I borrowed five dollars and came to New York. Sam's Chance And How He Improved It "They wouldn't know what to do with him at the poorhouse." The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Well, the poorhouse burnt clear to the ground, an' the inmates hed to be quartered 'round in Friendship anyhow that night, an' nex' day I never see Friendship so upset. Friendship Village Two are in a Colonial Cabinet now, two are in the poorhouse. The House with the Green Shutters This election was a great victory for him, as his opponents used the fact against him that his father had been an inmate of the poorhouse and had died there a pauper, to defeat him. Some Reminiscences of old Victoria Is that another lesson learned from the poorhouse boy?” Dorothy's Travels "You'd better send him to the poorhouse, deacon." she said more than once. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Then she hadn't no one to go to an' she got queer, an' the poorhouse uncle stepped in; an' when he died, he died in debt, so his death wa'n't no use to her. Friendship Village I designed using the spring and summer chiefly in examining the jails and poorhouses of Indiana and Illinois. Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies "Why, she fancies herself immensely rich, Mrs. Bradshaw, when, as a matter of fact, she's a penniless cousin of mine, who would have gone to the poorhouse but for my father's charity." Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune The girl might also be “poorhouse born” for aught anybody knew, and from contact with such her “precious lamb” was to be well protected. Dorothy's Travels So, on the day after the funeral, Sam found himself a candidate for the poorhouse. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Why in blazes did I ever bother to take that other brat from the poorhouse where its mother died? Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block "Yes," my mother said, "he will come out in the poorhouse, and drag you and me with him." Twenty Years of Hus'ling This spring it was clear that there was nothing for them but the poorhouse. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 I felt it my Christian duty to look pleasant when we had to give Cousin Caroline a home to save her from the poorhouse. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 "There isn't much for a lad like him to do at the poorhouse," said Major Stebbins. The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets His father, old Sam Maybin, had been a shiftless and tricky rascal, as everybody knew, and had ended his days in the poorhouse. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Yes, and this was the man who kept the poorhouse, and she would go without complaint; they might have given her notice, but she must not fret. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Uncle Tom and Aunt Sally ain't going to spend their golden wedding in the poorhouse—no, sir. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Fools to the state school for the feeble-minded, cripples to the poorhouse. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 He groaned from morning till night, forlorn and desolate, declaring that he should come to want, and die in the poorhouse. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World Visited a poorhouse, a benevolent establishment to assist poor old people; about three hundred inmates; grateful feelings, sympathy. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada It was not the keeper of the poorhouse. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Everybody in Blair was in the plot, including the matron of the poorhouse. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Everybody thought they ought to send him to the poorhouse, as he had no home to be sent to, but Captain Maxwell refused to do this. Cricket at the Seashore He believed that poverty and want stared him in the face, and that he must go to the poorhouse if he did not make an effort to retrieve his great misfortune. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World Well, perhaps, when there’s nothing else left but the poorhouse. Jewel Weed There's no place for her but the poorhouse, and I can't find it in my conscience to send her there. A Little Girl in Old Boston She and Uncle Tom will have been married fifty years in a fortnight's time and Aunt Sally thinks it's awful to have to spend their golden wedding anniversary in the poorhouse. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Still grubbing in Parker trying to get enough to eat, 'most likely; or maybe in the poorhouse, for 'twas grandpa who paid the mortgage on the farm. The Lilac Lady Let this fact be stated, that old folks who are sent over the hill to the poorhouse have invited their fate. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen By this performance he obtained from a benovolent bystander a drink of whiskey, the first he had had since he was committed to the poorhouse. My Terminal Moraine 1892 "I suppose he is staying with friends or relatives," said Mullins, who was not aware that Mr. Ralston, senior, was the inmate of a poorhouse. Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune She was a faithful, hard-working creature and kept him out of the poorhouse, for he was a shiftless soul, not lazy, exactly, but just too fond of sitting. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 A man in England died the other day in the poorhouse. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses No matter if I do have t' go t' the poorhouse on account of yer shiftlessness. Janet of the Dunes I can not say that he was drunk at that moment, but I knew the man the moment I saw his carroty poll, and it was drink which had sent him to the poorhouse. My Terminal Moraine 1892 If I gave up business, I'd soon be in the poorhouse. Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune "I never thought I'd be celebrating my golden wedding in the poorhouse," she sobbed. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 My wife was afraid of it, said I'd lose every cent I put in it and we'd have to go to the poorhouse—women don't generally understand about investments. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Later they passed the Manchester poorhouse, with its good ocean-view, and caught a glimpse of Baker's island. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886 With sparkling beer and foaming ale I am my friends befriending, and to the poorhouse and the jail my followers are wending. Rippling Rhymes "In the poorhouse," murmured the old man, sadly. Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune "I reckon there's enough there to keep you from ever having to go to the poorhouse again and if not, there'll be more where that comes from when it's done." Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 For these people, under the older dispensation, there was nothing but the poorhouse, the jail or starvation by the roadside. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Not a few English parishes emptied their poorhouses by sending the helpless inmates to the New World. Union and Democracy The rich have their palaces, and the poor have their poorhouses, and criminals have their jails; but what about the honest middle classes, who are able and willing to work, and yet have small income? The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony "Well, it's no worse for being a poorhouse, is it?" Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune By all the laws of my experience he should at this moment be in the poorhouse, but he isn't—he is rich and honored and loved. A Daughter of the Middle Border Of course everybody in the country knows that you live in daily fear of the poorhouse, and keep an advertising bureau busy trying to find you employment! An American Suffragette The poorhouse is but a mean place, with accommodation for a few persons, and the present occupants are of the humblest sort. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories It was a pathetic monologue that Miss Morrison had chosen for Maudie, supposed to be given by an old woman in a poorhouse. The Second Chance "I suppose you'll agree it is better than the poorhouse, or even boarders," said her niece. The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story At one time a good Quaker was superintendent of the county poorhouse. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens Uncle Si, who is an authority on the subject, says that there never was a plumber who died of overwork or in the poorhouse. The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice The principle of growth had exerted its power eccentrically with the poorhouse poet. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories Some hard things had been said at Fellness about his folly in taking her upon his hands when she could without difficulty have been sent to the poorhouse. A Sailor's Lass This source of supply was early discovered and utilized by the manufacturers, and it soon became customary for them to take as apprentices large numbers of the poorhouse children. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England The laws for the relief of the poor were kinder and more encouraging to self-help and self-reliance than our modern poorhouses. Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Many a rich man has died in the poorhouse. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Something about the strange inmate had affected the mad poet, long a dweller in the poorhouse, as unusual in that establishment. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories It's in the poorhouse ye will be if she lasts much longer. Children of the Tenements There were few occupants of jails or penitentiaries; poorhouses were often tenantless, and asylums for the insane were not numerous or crowded. Expansion and Conflict We were called upon to part with almost all the gulden "At this rate we shall soon be in the poorhouse," she said. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon To rot in a poorhouse or to sweep a crossing would have been my lot, or there might have been a worse alternative. The Gilpins and their Fortunes A Story of Early Days in Australia The weather had become extremely cold, but the poorhouse poet went on his rounds, persisting in being dressed as in the autumn. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories To give working papers to children seriously handicapped by physical defects is to buy future industrial trouble, hospital and poorhouse bills. Civics and Health He begged his father to take him out of the poorhouse, even if he had to subsist like the Hottentots. Pushing to the Front "Why does he not go to the poorhouse?" Six Years in the Prisons of England "Come, Mary, did you too think, like Bert here, that I was headed for the poorhouse?" Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret The cellar-master did not live to have a place in the new poorhouse. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories But though the poorhouse stands in Thrums, where all may see it, the neighbours did not think only of themselves. A Window in Thrums Following a secret plan, she adopted a boy from the poorhouse, and brought him up with every advantage that money could buy. The Promised Land When Mary Morton's mother died last year and left her alone, they took her to the poorhouse. A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods We are not a poorhouse, y' kneow—or a house for inebriates. Wayside Courtships The poorhouse was not an imposing structure, but it could boast of antiquity, as it had been built long, long ago for the purpose for which it was now used. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories I could not, even at this day, have told any episodes in the life of Jess had it ended in the poorhouse. A Window in Thrums Probably she hasn't any wit; besides, she isn't bound on a very jolly journey—got a pass up the road to the poorhouse. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform He died at Halsted poorhouse from the effects of the ill-usage. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales Want me to end up in the poorhouse? The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays It was not difficult for Johanson to locate the poorhouse poet. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories "And, I'll try to keep out of the poorhouse until we can use the sixty-five dollars in the pocketbook Rose found," and he laughed. Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's I was nursed in a poorhouse and brought up in a hut on the Campagna. The Eternal City The poorest people in the town, the paupers in the poorhouse, thought of her as a personal friend to whom they could turn for sympathy and help. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 See here, boys, mother's gone to glory, and father's in the poorhouse, but it isn't up to me to say why. The Way of Ambition He never named her, nor was she ever mentioned in the establishment by her lawful cognomen, but was always spoken of as "she," representing alone, as she did, her own sex in the poorhouse. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories Sara," said Helen, gravely, "suppose that woman were to tell you that sometime you will quarrel with your family, and be driven from home, and finally die in a poorhouse. Cicely and Other Stories Mary's hands are red with chilblains in the winter, and the poorhouse yawns for her. Homeburg Memories No long before her death, an old black woman died in the poorhouse. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 All the public buildings, churches, hospitals and poorhouse were blown up. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights On the whole, the poorhouse had become for Johanson a peaceful and in a measure a comfortable home. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories The following corrections were made to the original text: Hyphenation made consistent: antisocial, court-martial, courtyard, everyday, framework, housebreaking, petit mal, poorhouses, psychopathologist, reënlisted, readmitted, viewpoint. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Nobody knew who he was or where he came from, and consequently he was put in the local poorhouse, there to remain until he was nine years old. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret Dere ain't no doubt dat many a slave learnt good lessons dat showed them how to work and stay out of de jail or poorhouse, dat's worth a little. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Glory remembered—for the most part dimly, for some special points distinctly—her child life of three years in Stonebury poorhouse. Faith Gartney's Girlhood I'll send her to the poorhouse this afternoon with a message to Johanson from me, and the book she likes so much. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories He says sometimes that the greenhouses cost so much money that they will send him to the poorhouse. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 No one could again call him "a poorhouse nobody." Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret "And since the Ralestone family have definitely gone off the gold or any other monetary standard, it's tourist rests or the poorhouse for us." Ralestone Luck Maybe we would have ended in the poorhouse but we'd have had a good time going, and I bet Bud and I would have found something to laugh at even when we got there. Green Valley "Send her to the poorhouse!" exclaimed the pastor. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories Come, Mr. Manfred," he said, "the selectmen have managed to crowd you into the poorhouse. Choice Readings for the Home Circle He had sided with Dave when the latter was termed "a poorhouse nobody," and this had made teacher and pupil close friends. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret But lately a former millionaire died in a poorhouse and left his body as a cadaver for medical students. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Said I've eternally disgraced him and dragged him down and will land him in jail or the poorhouse. Green Valley It was well known in the poorhouse and parish that the stranger pauper had a Bible, and read it too, at least for five minutes every day. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories Here we are worn out with age—all our children removed from us by the hand of death, and ere long we must be the inmates of the poorhouse. Choice Readings for the Home Circle Dave was now no longer a "poorhouse nobody," as some of his enemies had called him, but a well-to-do7 youth with considerable money coming to him when he should be of age. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret The poorhouses and the jails and the insane asylums are filled with them. The Child's Day Valens went forward on his journey, leaving behind a princely gift for Basil's poorhouse. The Arian Controversy It's very fine to be called 'cellar-master' when you sit fast in the poorhouse; but it's a bad business dragging people down. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories If we make any inducements we land in the poorhouse. Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures "This is the work of that miserable poorhouse rat, Dave Porter," Link told some of his cohorts. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret You've been on a rich planet for the last five years, Conn. You've forgotten what it's like to live in a poorhouse. Graveyard of Dreams I bought it when he broke up an' went to the poorhouse. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel She could not treat him like a common tenant of the poorhouse, and he was sure she would keep his secret. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories The Touloun is now a vast poorhouse, a nest of paupers. Letters from Egypt Very, sir; you have a fine view of the squire's new tomb and the poorhouse, with a wing of the jail behind the trees. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales One hundred years ago also England left her orphan babes to grow up in the country poorhouse, midst surroundings often vulgar, profane and brutal. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service There was a thrifty Overseer in the poorhouse, and the village paupers, unless they were actually crippled and past labor, found small repose in the bosom of the town. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel The rest of aunty's present will do to make Christmas cheery for the poorhouse people and the hard-pinched folks in the parish, who look for a little from us at this time. Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories Say, mister, this is a combination poorhouse and idiot asylum. A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy "And I guess I'd better go back to the poorhouse and get a meal," said Tom. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods "I suppose they will have to go to the poorhouse." The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. “You call the poorhouse righteous charity, do ye, Doctor Seth Prescott?” he demanded. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel "They generally go to the poorhouse, my daughter." The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) "My husband will never let me be took to the poorhouse and kept there." The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul I hired this boy from the poorhouse and agreed to pay him certain wages. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods I hope not; God forbid, asthore, the poorhouse is such a dangerous place for Catholics. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. In the triangle of fields between the path which the Edwards children followed on their way to school and the two roads was the poorhouse. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel I don't mean to say that the poorhouse stares us in the face, you know, but unless a certain amount of revenue is forthcoming, we simply can't afford to keep up this place. Poor Man's Rock "Nat wouldn't mind if I was in the poorhouse, so long as he could get me out," said his daughter, taking up the cudgels in defence of her lover's disinterestedness. The Voice of the People Part he keeps for himself and the rest goes to the poorhouse managers for his board in the Winter when he can't work. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods "Have we far to go yet, sir?" said Paul, thinking that the "county house" was something different from the much dreaded poorhouse. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. She had come into the world and the poorhouse by the shunned byway of creation. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel I knew of twenty-three deaths in the poorhouse in twenty-four hours. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent A is used throughout for I. As in many English stories, an extreme and painful dread of the workus, or poorhouse, provides a strong motive force. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays "No, I'm going off to see some of the townspeople—the authorities—the head of the poorhouse and others, to find out what right Mr. Bixby has to Tom." Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods There was no necessity for a poorhouse; and there is no need of it now, says the Irish peasant, if justice was done to Ireland. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. Toggs was held to be merely a reminiscence of some particularly ludicrous stage of his poorhouse costume. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel The man who is paying rent has his farm well stocked; the others are paupers, and one died in the poorhouse. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent We would ask the farmer for leave to stop the night in the barn, but we’d sooner sleep under the hedge in the rain than go in the poorhouse. The English Gipsies and Their Language You see I live at the poorhouse, having no relations to take care of me, and no place to live. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods "Give us back our monasteries and abbeys, and we will bestow you the poorhouses." The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. Decidedly—as mild-mannered a man as ever asked grace at a poorhouse table. How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories But Joe Lambert had refused to go to the poorhouse or to become a bound boy. Our Boys Entertaining Stories by Popular Authors "There's the poorhouse for tramps, and the lock-up for rascals," he added. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow It tastes lots better than the pie we got to the poorhouse. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods And this was the origin of poorhouses—a true Protestant creation. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. He and his family were once more reduced to absolute beggary, until in the course of events they found a poorhouse to receive them. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three He gave himself up to this work with great zeal, studying the court and prison records, reports of town poorhouses, and the testimony of old neighbors and employers. Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity A Jewish tailor was quite lately sent to the Cook County poorhouse, paralyzed beyond recovery at the age of thirty-five. Democracy and Social Ethics This industry had been introduced in 1777, we are told, to give employment in the poorhouse, but it caught on and spread amazingly. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union The repugnance of the Irishman to the poorhouse is proverbial. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. She sometimes waked up in misery in Mrs. Kilpatrick's warm bed, crying for fear that she was going to be sent back to the poorhouse. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches It is no disgrace to be poor or to be in a poorhouse if there is a good reason for it. Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity Of all classes of men, I do not know any who have such an abhorrence for the poorhouse as the sailor class. Windjammers and Sea Tramps The second: “Johnson’s proceedings refer to poorhouse and church registers.” The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate The poorhouses, prison-like edifices, in Elizabethan style of architecture, presided over by Englishmen, generally, and nominees of the crown, are a monument of conquest and tyranny. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. I was over to Lem Hudlow's to ask if he had any hogs stole last night—Lem lives nigh the poorhouse, you know. The Daughter of Anderson Crow These were in poorhouses or its equivalent for 2,300 years. Jukes-Edwards A Study in Education and Heredity The old coachmen, once lords of the road, ended their days in the poorhouse, and steam, almighty steam, ruled everywhere. Vanishing England Mr. Capella arranged with the authorities to withdraw from the poorhouse an elderly woman named Maria Bresciano. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate "What nice men we have in America over the poorhouse," said he; "they are very kind to us." The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. It took me years to make my way, but I've made it at last, and I may settle down to a comfortable middle-age without the dread of the poorhouse to spur me into activity. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage We crowd them into our money mills; we deny them youth, we deny them rest, we deny them opportunity, we deny them hope, or any hope of hope; and we provide for age—the poorhouse. Copper Streak Trail Thankless an’ ontrue,—go,—an’ look to me in the future to keep you out of the poorhouse and no more. Children of the Mist We visited the poorhouse at Glenties, which is in a dreadful state; the people were in fact half starved and only half clothed. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines I hope, sir, you are not going to take us to the poorhouse," said Paul; "we don't want to go there. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. Yes, I am told she is disabled by disease, and lives in the poorhouse. Elsie at Nantucket Here it had made her talkative long after bedtime, and she hadn't yet found out just how few dollars stood between her and the poorhouse. Ma Pettengill I did manage," began the old man, flicking off his ash with an admirable effect of calm, "to save a small nest-egg from the wreck, to keep me from the poorhouse in my old age. Queed They who refuse education to the black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, incessantly vibrating between poverty and indolence. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) He saw hundreds of his neighbors enter the gates of the poorhouse, but he never saw one return back. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. She kissed me—a rare thing for her to do—and whispered brokenly but with a smile: "We'll go down to the poorhouse together, Bart, but we'll go honest." The Light in the Clearing For the first time she looked fully at the Cooneys' poorhouse idol. V. V.'s Eyes You'll have somebody to take care of you when you are old, and there will never be any talk of the poorhouse between you and me. Queed I don't know how I came to say it, for, goodness knows, I find it hard enough to keep out of the poorhouse myself, but I did say it, and I meant it, too. Romance of California Life "O, woe, woe, woe!" cried they, as they found themselves admitted as paupers, and enclosed within the precincts of the terrible poorhouse. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. Early that fall Kate got better an' left the poorhouse afoot. The Light in the Clearing Soane turned a large khan on the outskirts of the town into a poorhouse, and here he lodged the starving women and children that drifted in from all over Kurdistan. War in the Garden of Eden Men, as a general thing, who fail in the poetry line, yellow-coloured novel line, sensation-drama line, city-editor line, and finally fall back on agriculture as a temporary reprieve from the poorhouse. The Bed-Book of Happiness The irregular hours, the exposure, the excitement, and above all the drink in which most of them indulge, kill them out or send them to a poorhouse or the hospital. Regeneration These were the substitute for the poorhouse in the days when England and all Europe sent their poor scholars to receive a gratuitous education among the inhabitants of the Island of Saints. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. It was that ancient, Yankee dread of the poorhouse that filled her heart I suppose. The Light in the Clearing But I'd rather go to the county poorhouse than stay here, or anywhere else, with Maria Port. The Captain's Toll-Gate So long as the American people keep out of the poorhouse, let there be no lumber-cutting vandalism in that park, destroying the beauty of every acre of forest that is touched by axe or saw. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation So these discarded men fall to rise no more and drift to the poorhouse or the Shelters or the jails, and finally into the river or a pauper's grave. Regeneration But though the poorhouse stands in Thrums, where all may see it, the neighbors did not think only of themselves. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 On the other hand the poorhouse has been transformed into a "Home for the Aged and Infirm" in some States, and inspections of public institutions by the grand jury are becoming more than merely cursory. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution It has charge of the county property, including the court-house, jail, and poorhouse. Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition Well, she's in the poorhouse,— Been there a year or so; So I'm taking care of the others, Doing as well as I know. Voices for the Speechless The men employed have almost without exception been taken off the streets to save them from starvation or the poorhouse. Regeneration No one can despise faithful-hearted Fannie Robin, dragging herself to the poorhouse along Casterbridge highway; that scene, which bites itself upon the memory, is fairly bathed in an immense, understanding pity. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities A poorhouse or a dungeon would have been cheerful, compared with a dwelling haunted unceasingly with unearthly suspicions and alarms. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 So, too, in caring for the poor, the county may aid the local governments, or it may take entire charge of the paupers, and maintain a poorhouse. Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition Senator Mark Hanna was walking through his mill one day when he heard a boy say: "I wish I had Hanna's money and he was in the poorhouse." Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations There were no millionaires, no tramps, and the poorhouse had only a few inmates. Death Valley in '49 She was literally a pauper, and when there is nowhere else to lay his head, even the most miserable pauper thinks twice before he runs away from the poorhouse. What eight million women want |
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