poorhouse

For these people, under the older dispensation, there was nothing but the poorhouse, the jail or starvation by the roadside.

I don't much like to say the poorhouse, where I was took after my folks died, and I hate to say Mrs. Stott's truck-farm.

When we arrived at Posen we took up our quarters in the Jewish poorhouse, the master of which was a poor jobbing tailor.

But it would mean all the difference between penury and dread of the poorhouse on the one hand and safety on the other to David.

In a few weeks, they got on so well that they began to take their relations and friends out of that terrible poorhouse.