Poor-house

Madame Montford, too, has by him been kept in a state of nervous anxiety, for he has not yet found time to search in the "Poor-house for the woman Munday."

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

Will you not save me from the Poor-house -- from the shame that awaits me with greedy clutches, and receive in return the blessing of a friendless woman!

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

Commissioner and ask to set in the Poor-house till I get my health.

The Man Who Would Be King Rudyard Kipling 1900

Street Church, every Thursday afternoon in the Poor-house, and during other parts of the week in the church or in less conspicuous places.

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887

I preached at three o'clock in the Poor-house, and at night met the Band Society, in which we were powerfully blessed.

Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper. 1887

At one corner a very picturesque half-timbered house, quaintly carved, went by the various names of the "Guild Hall," its first designation, the "Poor-house," and Mr – 's wool store.

Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874

Shall have charge of the Poor-house, receive and care for the paupers sent to him by the Overseers of the Poor; receive and disburse, under the direction of the Board of Supervisors, the poor levy; make an annual report to the Board of Supervisors.

Civil Government of Virginia William Fayette Fox 1872

No Poor-house, but paupers are assisted by the county.

First Annual Report of the Board of Public Charities of North Carolina. February, 1870 North Carolina Board of Public Charities 1870

Therefore the parish, aided by the owner of the factory, built a hospital for the whole district, and the site of the old Poor-house was chosen for it.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

Under one of them that stood near a spring, which is now called the Fresh Spring, an old carpenter who came to the Poor-house built a bench. '

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867