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How to use almshouse in a sentence

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Family members rushed to help as the water threatened to spread from the low-level shower floor into the rest of the almshouse in Bovingdon Road.
Thus, while the almshouse served the poor, it also served as a powerful vehicle of town life and political ambition.
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.
The struggling public library was quartered in an 18th-century stone building that had been, in the course of its 185 years, an almshouse, an orphanage, and an insane asylum.
Although the almshouse did not eliminate poverty any more than the penitentiary did crime, 1820s Baltimore attested to the optimism of a dynamic age.
One Sunday, on her daily visit to the almshouse, Evangeline sees an old man on his deathbed.
Then it became an almshouse, before being deserted.
In 2008, Borghezio joined a sit-in at Genoa's San Giovanni di Pré church to protest mayor Marta Vicenzi's plans to convert an almshouse in the compound into an interfaith chapel.
He planned and designed an almshouse for them at Twickenham with a gallery for some of his works.
One surviving example is the gateway at Ripon, designed somewhat in the style of a medieval almshouse.
In 1619 he founded Abbot's Hospital, an almshouse in Guildford, which is still operating.
The green of this small village is set among an old Vanbrugh almshouse, a pub and three stone bridges over its beck.
The almshouse menu from the late 19th century speaks of the harsh reality and austerity of the times when quantity, not quality of the food was of the essence.
In medieval times, the murder of a bishop or a rival for the throne might be compensated by the foundation of an almshouse or chantry the medieval equivalent of public services.
Despite divided authority the city grew rapidly, and by the 1730s it possessed two newspapers, an almshouse, a night watch, and a network of volunteer firemen.
The poor, suffering from fever, go to the almshouse to die.
The scene is an almshouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Many characteristics typical of Haarlem are included: Two almshouse courts will be located around the school, and the street profile for the new interior walkway corresponds with the model of the Haarlem shopping street.
It is thought to have originally been built as a brewery for the production of church ales, became adapted as an almshouse, and later became the village school.
With almost 1,200 patients, laguna Honda Hospital was originally the San Francisco Almshouse, and in a way it still is.
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He could be boarded at the almshouse for nothing, and, chained in an outbuilding, he would not require any care.
Near the park entrance is the almshouse, with its timeworn gables of yellow stone against the dull red of the tile roofing.
In all pagandom there was not a hospital, asylum, almshouse, or organized charity of any sort.
He took his way across the fields, so as to reach the almshouse before his father.
The almshouse could tell the story of a hundred women who married men to reform them.
She provides for us an almshouse in which we can take refuge when we are old and weary.
A few years later Charterhouse was converted into an almshouse and a school.
At this time he had taken Leo from the almshouse, to be her companion in his absence.
Why, she was preparing to investigate every jail and almshouse in the State of Massachusetts.
A beadsman was an inmate of an almshouse who was bound to pray for the founders of the house.
A MILLIONAIRE who had gone to an almshouse to visit his father met a Neighbour there, who was greatly surprised.
On the other hand, we shall not relegate the old to an almshouse.
This couple from the palace and the almshouse are but the types of thousands more who represent the dark tragedy of life and seldom quarrel for the upper parts.
She took to her bed at once, received her friends in tears and a point-lace cap, and cheered her family by plaintively inquiring when she was to be taken to the almshouse.
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