... you'll never be a soldier! 'he bookie was getting very old and his prosperous days were over, so he had to seek refuge in the workhouse. But he had not been there very long before the betting fever got him and he commenced a book. A visitor asked him one day ...

... pillow. And all your grandchildren, of course. By the time Pa and I get to the Workhouse I dare say the rules will be much less strict. Anyway, you 're not going to the Workhouse. You 're coming to live with Philip and me. We are not coming to live with ...

... publicity, started to take all the trade in the place. Butcher Number One was sitting in his shop musing on what the inside of a workhouse would look like, when a bright idea suddenly struck him. He hurried to his competitor's shop, and elbowing his way through ...

... envied because his was the one line where profits increased as he declined. Type No. 2 was the vagrant who aimed at the workhouse, or spike, on his wander ings, and who is abruptly dismissed by Davies as a madman. Why be a tramp at all, why turn his ...

... became acquainted with W. B. Moffat and the two entered into partnership. In 1834 they were appointed architects to the union workhouse of Bucking hamshire, and for four years were busily occupied in building a number of cheap and ugly unions, both there and ...

... the Newgate Calendar shows. Footnote When smuggling ceased the last sur vivor of the big terror-gangs died in Eastbourne Workhouse in his nineties, about fifty years ago ghostly drummers were heard no more in Kent or Sussex. The Brigadier is therefore ...

... public became satiated even though many of the objects were charitable such as the Leicester Lottery, which enabled the workhouse to be built, and the Greenwich Hospital Lottery, designed to give financial assistance to the disabled seamen, widows and ...

... feared than the Hawkhurst Gang, over the Kentish border is that Bob Hall, its last member, died as late as 1895 in Eastbourne Workhouse, in his late nineties. But when young Mr. Hall joined the gang the golden days were over and fewer and fewer French luggers ...

... social panorama and social comedy. He had an unfeigned and flaming reformer spirit his detestation of evils factory and workhouse conditions, ragged schools and his will to expose them cannot be considered any the less real because they went far to obtain ...

... are going to be run The answer, I dare say, is that they just aren't but even if we all have to live in communal flats or workhouses, some body has got to do the cooking and scrubbing, and I cannot imagine who it is going to be. A return to the cave might ...

... scientists desire, half of the world would be out of a job, and a large part of the other half on its way to the breadline or workhouse. For in spite of all, the land still supports sixty per cent of the world population. If one reads the papers, one gains ...

... younger men, on the beach for good played out, unfitted to go seafaring men who had no hope of any sort, except to die in a workhouse. These men came cadging at the ship ping office, where the Hopleigh Head paid off: they whined for coppers, even. Many's ...