workhouse

What a wretched life they lived in the workhouse!

Oliver Twist was sent to the workhouse as a child.

The workhouse provided shelter for the homeless.

Many families struggled to survive and ended up in the workhouse.

The workhouse system was harsh and unforgiving.

He spent years working in the workhouse before finding a better job.

The workhouse was overcrowded and unsanitary.

She volunteered at the local workhouse to help those in need.

The workhouse provided basic necessities like food and shelter.

The workhouse was a place of last resort for many people.

The workhouse system was eventually abolished due to public outcry.

At the age of nine he ends up in a miserable, grim workhouse.

And we certainly wouldn't take somebody from the workhouse.

'And the workhouses, where poor people can live and work? Are they still open? '

Back at the workhouse, Oliver was taken to see the board.

The " Silent Sentinels" endured arrests and imprisonment in a squalid workhouse where they were brutalized and force-fed.

You had the proper workhouse cough, and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pound a week.

After all, death was a common event in the workhouse, where only the poor and homeless lived.

Just briefly describe what a workhouse was.

Why it might have been in the workhouse'.

'Take the boy back to the workhouse, and treat him kindly.