Poor-House

"She ain't handsome, and she came from the Poor-House; isn't that enough?" answered Salina, stretching forth her hand, and counting each word down with a finger into the palm of her hand as if it had been a coin.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

A low, squatty building, with a red, moss-covered roof, two lean chimneys peeping out, the windows blockaded with dirt, and situated in one of the by-lanes of the city, is our Poor-House, standing half hid behind a crabbed old wall, and looking very like a much-neglected

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

HARPER AND BROTHERS -- _Over the Hill to the Poor-House_, _The Ride of

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She desires he will be her guide to the Poor-House, and there assist her in searching for

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

We see our Poor-House crumbling to the ground with decay, yet imagine it, or affect to imagine it, a very grand edifice, in every way suited to the wants of such rough ends of humanity as are found in it.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

From this ridge we could overlook the open fields near a meeting-house known as "Ezra Church," close by the Poor-House.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

HARPER & BROTHERS -- _Over the Hill from the Poor-House_ and _The

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At the door of the Poor-House stands a dilapidated hearse, to which an old gray horse is attached.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

The fear of the Poor-House is with him yet, though he doesn't realize it.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

He was brought up in the fear of God and the Poor-House.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914