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Usage examples of almshouse.

We have been informed, sir, that there is an annual rent charged on the land of Hautbois, for the endowment and repair of an almshouse.

The manorial farm of Hautbois, now occupied by Farmer Seedling, is charged with the endowment and maintenance of an almshouse.

Dom Tower, and climbed its four hundred and sixty-five steps, and probably you had time to pay a visit to the Central Museum and take a quick peep at the Brutenhof Almshouses as well.

Celine was taken on a barge tour through the canals, a brisk view of the Dam Palace and the Dam Square, lunch in the Bijenkorf store, so that they could have a quick look round its enticing wares, a glimpse of the Beginjnhof, a group of charming almshouses tucked away behind Kalverstraat, and an even briefer glimpse of the Rijksmuseum, but only from the outside.

Together they fed the swans, till the birds went on a dyspepsia-strike, together they played billiards, together they photographed the village almshouses, and, at a respectful distance, the tame elk that browsed in solitary aloofness in the park.

Working with high-pressure hoses in total darkness they had swept a number of inadequately clothed old-age pensioners who had escaped from the almshouses down the street before turning their attention to the Public Library which they had filled with foam.

I take from the top shelf of the hospital department of my librarythe section devoted to literary cripples, imbeciles, failures, foolish rhymesters, and silly eccentrics--one of the least conspicuous and most hopelessly feeble of the weak-minded population of that intellectual almshouse.

I think it is the only way to keep us out of the almshouse, and I believe it to be a perfectly sure way.

First came the published cases of the American clergymen, brigadiergenerals, almshouse governors, representatives, attorneys, and esquires.

Even at a much later time the inmate of the almshouse of a London guild sat this day by the side of the rich alderman.

Weg and proceeded in the direction of the Almshouse and Orphanage along the grounds of the Langfuhr fire department.

He was pottering with five figures that looked like the orphans from the Almshouse and Orphanage.

And so Amsel invited the Almshouse children to his garden and dispensed charitable gifts in exchange.

For, when I consider whereunto the gifts of fellowship in some places are grown, the profit that ariseth at sundry elections of scholars out of grammar schools to the posers, schoolmasters, and preferers of them to our universities, the gifts of a great number of almshouses builded for the maimed and impotent soldiers by princes and good men heretofore moved with a pitiful consideration of the poor distressed, how rewards, pensions, and annuities also do reign in other cases whereby the giver is brought sometimes into extreme misery, and that not so much as the room of a common soldier is not obtained oftentimes without a "What will you give me?

It also meant a good chance of having to open the battle with a frontal assault on the West Gap, which didn't appeal to Kalvan even if he did have the edge in numbers and many of the Harphaxi were the scourings of every dive and almshouse in Hos-Harphax and Hos-Agrys.