leper-house

"My word, I don't know what to do," Daughtry murmured, staring about helplessly as he realised that it was a leper-house, that the very chair in which the old man sat was a leper-chair, that the very floor on which his exhausted feet rested was a leper - floor.

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Yesterday, he wrote a letter to Sheriff Severance, giving himself up as a leper to be dealt with by the law, expressing himself as ready to be expatriated today, but requesting that he might not be put into the leper-house, and that he might go on board the steamer alone.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

I would have avoided it like a leper-house because of its gloomy memorials; but the very reek of its repairing tenements as I saw them from the upper windows of my home floating in a haze against the blue over the shoulder of Dun Torvil seemed to call me on.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

"My word, I don't know what to do," Daughtry murmured, staring about helplessly as he realised that it was a leper-house, that the very chair in which the old man sat was a leper-chair, that the very floor on which his exhausted feet rested was a leper - floor.

Chapter 21 1917

What was originally opened as a leper-house and, as a rule, endowed for that purpose, naturally became, as the epidemic subsided, a general hospital.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

He occupied the See of Macao from its foundation, in 1575, to 1583, during which period he established the Santa Casa de Misericordia, the hospital of St. Raphael, and the leper-house of St. Lazarus.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

A leper-house was bilt to receive about one hundred patients.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

He straightened up at once, after one fall, and bore the white banner of the Maid in good style from the mission to the deserted inn by the leper-house.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

We speak of the churchyard as "haunted," and we recoil in horror from the leper-house or the cholera-camp.

Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

Francis had many a time sweet experience of this; from the time of his arrival at the leper-house he felt that if he had lost his life he was about to find it again.

Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893