Similar words: housework, working hour, dark horse, work, at work, works, workout, work up. Meaning: n. 1. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor 2. a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months.
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1 What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!
2 How very sad to die in a workhouse!
3 He was to die in Redruth workhouse in 1878.
4 The earliest building is a mid-nineteenth-century workhouse and the most fascinating is the rotunda ward block, built in 1885.
5 Oh yeah, that's when it got its own workhouse, too, for the parish destitutes.
6 The Dickensian workhouse mentality still exists, but you don't need to subscribe to it.
7 George Shepherd, aged 24, had been in the workhouse for some months suffering from consumption.
8 The workhouse, erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of ￡2,000, was built to accommodate 170 inmates.
9 In 1879 the Workhouse Infirmary Nursing Association was founded to train and supply nurses, and she became secretary.
10 She died of typhus fever in the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary, 19 February 1868.
11 Reform of workhouse infirmaries was one of her prime concerns.
12 Philanthropic work, like workhouse visiting,(www.Sentencedict.com) inevitably raised the question of women's representation on public bodies at the local level.
13 The workhouse must be presented in the best possible light.
14 Seeing it on the noticeboard at the workhouse made me think ... but I can't be sure any more.
15 Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse. 
16 In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse, but he did not know that.
17 A fairly serious outbreak occurred in 1928 at the workhouse.
18 Some still by that date did not have trained nurses but employed untrained workhouse inmates.
19 And so it went on: poor or nonexistent sanitation, overcrowded dormitories, dull and unappetising food, workhouse conditions.
20 If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan, perhaps he would have cried even more loudly.
21 The inmates of the institution were treated well, whether they ware in the workhouse or in the infirmary.
22 Their clothes were in a worse state than when they had left the workhouse.
23 One of the boys, Reuben N., had scaled a wall and run away from the workhouse.
24 The old man went into one wing of the workhouse and the old girl went to the other.
25 The deceased said he never would go into the workhouse.
26 The committee also agreed to pay the master his expenses in apprehending runaway boys from the workhouse.
27 They returned the next day with the coffin and four men from the workhouse who were to carry it.
28 And that could have happened when we were in the workhouse.
29 That's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse, so they could take them over on a barrow.
30 They were dispersed by soldiers but reassembled to attack another workhouse at Bulcamp.
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