workhouse in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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He found conditions in the workhouse a nightmare of cruelty, infinitely worse than the most inhuman aspects of the penitentiary.
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She is relegated to the insane women's ward of the workhouse, cradling a plank of wood as if her own child.
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Two men were employed assisted by the workhouse inmates.
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This workhouse was built before 1832, was closed in 1868, sold in 1871 and demolished in the 1980s.
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Staying in the workhouse she set to work upon the little poems by which she is known.
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However, these workhouses were intended to help only the elderly, sick and orphaned, not the able-bodied poor.
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Its use in hospitals was borrowed from workhouses.
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For the asylum he designed several new wings and a chapel, followed by extensions to the union workhouse.
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It was thought that if conditions in the workhouse were really bad then the poor would be deterred from seeking relief.
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After 1923 the workhouse was closed and the barracks vacated.
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