workhouse|workhouses in English

noun

shelter providing work; poorhouse for unemployed and criminals

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1. 2 How very sad to die in a workhouse!

2. 1 What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

3. 17 A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse.

4. 11 Reform of workhouse infirmaries was one of her prime concerns.

5. 17 What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

6. 3 He was to die in Redruth workhouse in 18

7. Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse. 

8. Yet despite Charles Dickens etal., workhouses were not all the dark satanic mills of legend.

9. 13 The workhouse must be presented in the best possible light.

10. 19 His parents subsequently became master and matron of Poplar union workhouse.

11. 25 The deceased said he never would go into the workhouse.

12. Grim Bastilles of Despair is a short study on the Poor Law Union workhouses in Ireland

13. 15 Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse. 

14. This system was substantially modified by the 19th-century Poor Law Amendment Act, which introduced the system of workhouses.

15. 13 His parents subsequently became master and matron of Poplar union workhouse.

16. 28 And that could have happened when we were in the workhouse.

17. Returns of Acreable Contents and Population of Unions in Ireland, 1841; Workhouse Accommodation provided; Number of Paupers in Workhouse Buildings, March 1847 Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item

18. 30 They were dispersed by soldiers but reassembled to attack another workhouse at Bulcamp.

19. Prior to World War I, infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population.

20. 24 Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse. 

21. 7 George Shepherd, aged had been in the workhouse for some months suffering from consumption.

22. 5 Oh yeah, that's when it got its own workhouse, too, for the parish destitutes.

23. Of about half a million foundlings christened in workhouses after 17 only 40 percent survived to their second birthday.

24. 22 Their clothes were in a worse state than when they had left the workhouse.

25. 10 She died of typhus fever in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, 19 February 18