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poorhouse (formerly) a publicly maintained institution offering accommodation to the poor How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He supported almost singlehanded a poorhouse the order had founded in Petersburg. He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it. There ain't no difference dyin' in battle or in the poorhouse. |
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