| Instead single parents indentured their children and many others came from the poorhouse and other asylums. |
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| The poorhouse for which I am destined is a house of discord where there is no peace whatever. |
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| I am in the junior seminary at Poitiers where the Bishop has found me a place while waiting for the poorhouse authorities to receive me. |
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| Over the centuries it has served as granary, poorhouse, barracks, theatre and, since renovation in 1995, an artistic venue. |
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| She said that the knowledge of eviction and the fear of the poorhouse ran in our blood. |
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| Finally only the poorhouse and the administration of estates united Hofen to its maternal community Bibern. |
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| The records of the two towns, while providing basic information on the choice of supplementing out relief with a poorhouse, leave central questions unanswered. |
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| The Collins girls were from Tyringham and the Paynes, who were born in Connecticut, may have been indentured from the poorhouse of Norwalk or Bridgeport as well. |
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| In a poorhouse in Poland, Zeinvel the Thief and Mottke the Beadle trade stories about women they have known. |
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| I do not allow any woman to enter my room, not even the lady administrators of the poorhouse. |
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| Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper. |
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| The matrons of the poorhouse want me to have my meals with them as some of my predecessors did. |
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| Desperately seeking a change of fortune, the Cardans moved to Milan, but here they fared even worse and they had to ignominiously enter the poorhouse. |
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| Meanwhile the Bishop, like the poor of Poitiers, has written to ask me to work in his poorhouse. |
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| 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. |
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| In the 19th century, the building housed a school, the poorhouse, and municipal offices at various times. |
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| And the reality was, that without some kind of financial support, the widow and the children would end up in the poorhouse, and that was the basis for the legislation. |
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| As we roll back the timeline to the mid-nineteenth century Western world, the indigent child is no longer incarcerated in the poorhouse. |
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| In the poorhouse there is a quick-witted girl who is the craftiest and proudest girl I have ever met. |
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| I must tell you, Father, that I do wish most sincerely to work for the spiritual welfare of the poor in general but I am not particularly anxious to settle down and be attached to a poorhouse. |
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| He was driven to his extraordinary feats of exploration by intense shame about his origins, as an out-of-wedlock child, named John Rowlands, who grew up mostly in a Welsh poorhouse. |
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| The cost of maintaining provincial quarantine and poorhouse facilities began to escalate in the 1840s, just as the bottom was falling out of the provincial economy. |
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| If it is God's will for you to become so poor that you have to enter the poorhouse, it will be for your greater good to be so despised and to be cast aside by everyone and so to die while still living in the body. |
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| Canada on the dole is like a young and vigorous man in the poorhouse. |
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| I entered this poorhouse, or rather this poor Babylon, quite determined to bear in union with Jesus Christ my Saviour the cross that would not fail to fall to me if this work was really God's work. |
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| I explained to the Bishop that even in the poorhouse I do not want to be separated from my mother, divine Providence, and with this in mind I am happy to share the meals of the poor and to have no fixed salary. |
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| More than eighty of the poor inmates fell ill and some of them died, and the whole town began to say that there was a plague in the poorhouse and that the place was cursed. |
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| The only thing that would make me want to go to the poorhouse at all would be the hope of being able to extend my work later into the town and the countryside and so be able to help more people. |
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| I worry we will be in the poorhouse or, worse yet, that we will have to move in with our kids and their snotty-nosed spoiled brats who call us grandparents. |
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| Every crofter under the age of seventy was removed and placed on board the Midlothian on threat of imprisonment, with those over that age being sent to the poorhouse. |
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