work-house

This procession of misdeeds, passing under their eyes day after day must leave a certain miasm of moral death behind it, which no prison or work-house can hereafter cure.

Howells Rediscovered 2005

Under various verbal forms he is recommended to go on to the streets-- which is called Individualism; or to the work-house--which is called Collectivism.

Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007

He was dressed in a reddish cloth wrapper-coat which the work-house affords to its inmates, a sort of horrible livery.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

He was dressed in a reddish cloth wrapper-coat which the work-house affords to its inmates, a sort of horrible livery.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

Under various verbal forms he is recommended to go on to the streets-- which is called Individualism; or to the work-house--which is called Collectivism.

G.K. Speaks - History of Hudge and Gudge 2007

This procession of misdeeds, passing under their eyes day after day must leave a certain miasm of moral death behind it, which no prison or work-house can hereafter cure.

Howells Rediscovered 2005

Under various verbal forms he is recommended to go on to the streets-- which is called Individualism; or to the work-house--which is called Collectivism.

An Englishman's house is his castle Leo 2007

An inquiry must be in some acknowledged direction, with a name to go by; or else you are not inquiring at all, only lounging; and the work-house is too good for you.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

And Betsy, on the score of ancient friendship and kind remembrance of his likings, put it to him in a gentle way whether his knowledge of what Sally Mock had been, and the calumnies she might have spoken of his beer (when herself, in the work-house, deprived of it), might not have induced him to take a little more than usual in going down so deep for her.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

But while a man had got his own bread to earn, till his honor would let him go to the work-house, and his duty to the rate-payers, there was nothing that vexed him more than to be told any texts of Holy Scripture.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004