Spink man we've heard so much about--the boy who was taken out of the poorhouse by grandfather.
Her sister explained what she knew of the man who--once a poorhouse boy--was now counted a rich man and the proprietor of Diamond Grits, the popular breakfast food.
So you see, mother, we needn't go to the poorhouse just yet.
The second: "Johnson's proceedings refer topoorhouse and church registers.
Mr. Capella arranged with the authorities to withdraw from the poorhouse an elderly woman named Maria Bresciano.
The throb of elation at the sight of the gate of Berlin had been speedily subdued by the discovery that he must bide in the poorhouse the Jews had built there till the elders had examined him.
He was passing the poorhouse and his thoughts turned to the Koehler family.
He remembered William Koehler as he had seen him later in the corner of the poorhouse garden, waving his arms, struggling like some frantic creature striving to break the bonds which held him.
Father is not in the poorhouse because he is poor.
I was at the poorhouse to help with a prayer meeting, and, indeed, he is almost himself, Alvin.
Then we will drive out to thepoorhouse and see Koehler himself.
Public opinion in Millerstown was less favorable than ever to Alvin since his father's removal to the poorhouse was coincident with Alvin's elaborate preparations for school.
The boy from thepoorhouse had told Phil all that had occurred.
This dinner proved a turning point in the life of the poorhouse youth.
Dave remained at the poorhouse until he was about nine years old, when he was taken out of that institution by a broken-down college professor named Caspar Potts, who had turned farmer.
Phil, after a pause, and the eyes of all the others were turned on the poorhouse boy.
Of course, Phil wanted to know why Dave was so anxious to learn about his proposed trip, and, in the end, the poorhouse boy told his story, to which his chum listened with interest.
All told, it was a homecoming that would have warmed the heart of any lad, and it made Dave forget completely that he was a "poorhouse nobody.
I once heard of a poorhouse boy who was the son of a thief.
Dave was indeed a poorhouse boy, and of unknown parentage.
At first, every effort to learn his identity was made, but, this failing, he was turned over to the poorhouse authorities.
Besides, your particular one was slated to be high ranked and distinguished, and this specimen scrubs up the billiard-room floor and ain't no more distinguished than a poorhouse pig.
All around was the fog, thin as poorhouse gruel so fur, but thickenin' every minute.
The man stepped nearer and answered in a low, confidential tone: "Say, mister, this is a combination poorhouse and idiot asylum.
But I wouldn't stay to be a burden--I'd go to the poorhouse first.
Brother Timothy, I can no longer remain in your dwelling to be laughed at; I will go to the poorhouse and end my miserable existence as a common pauper.
Why, if I'd loved a woman, she might have been born in the poorhouse for all the thought I'd have given it.
As for Theophilus, even the thought of the poorhouse does not appear to disturb him.
I knew of twenty-three deaths in the poorhouse in twenty-four hours.
The words taught him at the poorhouse came quickly to his mind, but he said sadly: "No, they won't do!
To conceal the fact that the poorhouse was a miserable place to stay would have been an impossibility.
Leaving the highway, he passed through the open gateway, and a picture of his uncle in the buggy with the little forlorn poorhouse waif sitting beside him arose in his mind.
From his earliest recollections in the poorhouse his desire to do right for principle's sake had never left him.
In the entire establishment the furnishings were scant and poor, and in every way things were vastly different from what we find them in the poorhouse of our modern times.
I'm sorry I didn't leave you at the poorhouse now and let you grow up with the cattle if you don't know enough to wash before you eat.
There had been several dogs at the poorhouse of which Edwin had been especially fond, but there had been none so beautiful as the one upon the walk below.
God not only had raised the poorhouse waif above his difficulties, but had given him in addition a good Christian companion to comfort and encourage him.
That Edwin's visit at the poorhousewas profitable, both to himself and to others, it is needless to say.
But he had never been away from the poorhouse farm, and when they passed from the driveway on to the public highway, he remembered that the children had been forbidden to leave the place, and he wondered what it all meant.
And I guess I'd better go back to the poorhouse and get a meal," said Tom.
I've lived near this lake all my life, and when my folks died and I went to the poorhouse in the Winter, and worked out in the Summer, I managed to get to the lake part of the time.
Mr. Bixby won't give me any dinner 'cause I ran away from him, but if I tell the superintendent back at the poorhouse how it happened I know he'll feed me until I get another place.
I hired this boy from the poorhouse and agreed to pay him certain wages.
Part he keeps for himself and the rest goes to the poorhouse managers for his board in the Winter when he can't work.
The class from which comes our poorhouse population is to a large extent 'without natural affection.
Being left an orphan at the age of three, he was sent to the poorhouse in his native place.
The child whose early advantages were only such as a Welsh poorhouse afforded, was already, through his own unaided efforts, a leader in his profession.
I reckon Turner'll know I ain't in the poorhouse yet--or near it.
Their lives might be made better worth the living than they are at present, and the poorhouse might come to be regarded as a hospital and shelter for the unfortunate, rather than as a refuge for drunkenness and vice.
Rackateen was the name by which the poorhouse undertaker was known.
In discharge of my duty of attending to the taking of contracts for my employer, I went to see the Guardians of the Bantry poorhouse one day, with some samples of wool and cotton.
His death was in the Bantry poorhouse the time of the Crimean war.
You're poorhouse rearing, even though you are a pet.
At one time he employed a young girl of fourteen, whom he had taken from the poorhouse to do his household work.
Perhaps when you are living in the poorhouse you will call yourself a gentleman,” he said.
Is that another lesson learned from the poorhouse boy?
The girl might also be "poorhouse born" for aught anybody knew, and from contact with such her "precious lamb" was to be well protected.
The result of Zeke's message was that Squire Pope hurried over to the poorhouse and held a conference with Mr. and Mrs. Tucker.
You don't mean to say Phil has been carried to the poorhouseagainst his will?
And you will go to the poorhouse peaceful, and without making a fuss?
The absurdity of burglars attempting to rob the townpoorhouse did not occur to her in panic.
They deputed Squire Pope to visit the poorhouse and inquire into the matter.
He had persuaded himself that our young hero, Philip, would be better off in the poorhouse than in a place where he could earn his own living, and no one could convince him to the contrary.
Squire Pope told my father he was going to bring you over to the poorhouse to live.
Limerick knew nothing of Abbie Flagg's worthlessness, birth, and training, and the awful stigma of his poorhouse birth, so that he would start fair.
Time went on, and so did the rivalry between the poorhouse boy and the son of wealth, but Abijah's chances of friendship with Emma Jane grew fewer and fewer as they both grew older.
And that best only led you up to the poorhouse door," said he.
Yes, the mistake I made was when I took you in to save you from the poorhouse and give you a home.
That consolation was to be denied her; the shadow of the poorhouse had advanced until it stood now at her door.
I don't know what ever made me pity your mother and keep her out of the poorhouse by takin' in a loafer like you!
It was a bright day in the life of Uncle John Owens, then, when Ollie's lawyer called at the poorhouse and placed under his hands some slender slips of cardboard bearing raised letters, the A B C of his age.
Only the disgraced, the disowned, the failures, and the broken-minded made an end in the poorhouse in those vigorous days.
The shadow of the poorhouse had stood in her way for years.
Poorhouse Nan Did you say you wished to see me, sir?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poorhouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: asylum; home; retreat; workhouse
