| He took his way across the fields, so as to reach the almshouse before his father. |
| One Sunday, on her daily visit to the almshouse, Evangeline sees an old man on his deathbed. |
| Although the almshouse did not eliminate poverty any more than the penitentiary did crime, 1820s Baltimore attested to the optimism of a dynamic age. |
| Near the park entrance is the almshouse, with its timeworn gables of yellow stone against the dull red of the tile roofing. |
| The almshouse could tell the story of a hundred women who married men to reform them. |
| The creation of an almshouse or a poorhouse was not necessarily due to any particular function of the town, but may have been influenced by a particularly powerful selectmen. |
