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There are not enough soup-kitchens and bread-lines to go around, you know, and when men have nothing in their purses they usually die, and die miserably — unless they are able to fill their purses pretty speedily.
Chapter 24 2010
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Here was a man who defended small-pox, slavery and child-murder — a man who denounced soup-kitchens, early marriages and parish allowances ….
Classical economics 2008
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But still he attended the relief committees, and worked at the soup-kitchens attached to the estate, as though he were still the agent to Castle Richmond; and still debated warmly with Father
Castle Richmond 2004
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Mr. Somers soon resigned to him the chair at those committee meetings at Berryhill and Gortnaclough, and it was acknowledged that the Castle Richmond arrangements for soup-kitchens, out-door relief, and labour-gangs, might be taken as
Castle Richmond 2004
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However, the Prince had been a King, and the King had died, and now there was another King, whose chief function seemed to be to open soup-kitchens.
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Baptist minister, and began to devote herself to soup-kitchens in
New Grub Street 2003
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Here was a man who defended small-pox, slavery, and child-murder—a man who denounced soup-kitchens, early marriages, and parish allowances—a man who ‘had the impudence to marry after preaching against the evils of a family.’
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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Here was a man who defended small-pox, slavery, and child-murder—a man who denounced soup-kitchens, early marriages, and parish allowances—a man who ‘had the impudence to marry after preaching against the evils of a family.’
The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999
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Then I made my way between the rows of clothing and glass beads and sandalwood carvings and soup-kitchens and left the place by the rear entrance and walked three blocks to the cabstand I'd noted on the way up.
The Kobra Manifesto Hall, Adam 1976
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Augusta was also the patron of girls 'schools and soup-kitchens, to the number of more than a dozen, and was counted by many the especial friend of the very poor.
In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton
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