asylum

• The old verger was taking the sixpences of another party of tourists, and telling them, in his wheezy voice, to look out for the cemetery, the jail, and the lunatic asylum--to him evidently the three prime points of interest in the landscape. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
• In short, the widow's cottage became the theatre of a scene that would have done credit to the violent wards of a lunatic asylum--a scene, which is utterly beyond the delineative powers of pen or pencil--a scene which defies description, repudiates adequate conception, and will dwell for ever on the memories of those who took part in it like the wild phantasmagoria of a tremendous dream Of course, a wild man could not be induced, like an ordinary mortal, to wait a reasonable time in order to give his bride an opportunity of preparing her trousseau. —  The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
• Pauline sat crocheting at a grey woollen shoulder cape which was destined for some old woman in some old asylum, and was among the least interesting of her work. —  In the Mist of the Mountains
• Twenty blank years of madness she had spent in a lunatic asylum, after being driven mad by a shock, waking to sanity at last only to find herself an old woman Had I been mad? —  The Car of Destiny
• For example, it would hardly be denied that an orphan asylum is a charitable institution; yet an orphan asylum that was not an educational institution would be deplorable. —  The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States

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