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...y of prisons,’ said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. ‘And the Union workhouses?’ demanded Scrooge. ‘Are they still in operation?’ ‘They are. ... ...e Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. ‘Are there no workhouses. ’ The bell struck twelve. Scrooge looked about him for the Gh...

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...y of prisons,” said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. “And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in opera tion?” “They are... ...e Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?” The bell struck twelve. Scrooge looked about him for the Gho...

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...ve died, Tugby?’ cried his wife. ‘In the workhouse, ’ he returned. ‘What are workhouses made for?’ ‘Not for that,’ said Mrs. Tugby, with great energy....

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...ave died, Tugby?” cried his wife. “In the workhouse,” he returned. “What are workhouses made for?” “Not for that,” said Mrs. Tugby, with great energy....

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...rfect adequacy of such a quantity of food to the support of human life — in workhouses; the addition of the fifteenth part of a grain of pudding twic...

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...arts tail and at the whipping post, it began to fade out of madhouses, and workhouses, and schools and families, and to give place to a better system ... ... and other salubrious proceedings, in the midst of hospitals, churchyards, workhouses, schools, infir maries, refuges, dwellings, provision shops nur...

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... and people gaily clad. The jails are full, too, to the throat, nor have the workhouses or hospitals much room to spare. The courts of law are crowded...

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...ency and humanity can see them and doubt it. But what is this Union to do? The neces- sary alteration would cost several thousands of pounds; it has a... ...r, I see the rusty vane new burnished, and seeming to look out with a joyful flash over the sea of smoke at the distant shore of country. Blinking old...

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...ictual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere, as enlightened Charity, dreading no evil of them,...

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...kage they were still campaigning. He had had some idea of resorting to the workhouses for the night if hunger pressed him too closely, but some of the...

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...s to give work to starving homeless people.” “Yes.” “Nowadays there are no workhouses, no refuges and chari- ties, nothing but that Company. Its offic...

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...ere com- paratively few freemen remaining in all Italy, which swarmed with workhouses full of foreign-born slaves. These the rich men employed in cult...

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...the children’s side of any prison in England, or, I grieve to add, of many workhouses, and judge whether those are monsters who disgrace our streets, ...

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...Several more changes were made under King William. Most of the great union workhouses were built then, and it was made less easy to get help from the ... ...liking to live on other folk’s money—and it has done good in that way; but workhouses are sad places for the poor aged people who cannot work, and it ...

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...r, let them stay together. But if not, let them part, as old people in the workhouses do. Theyve had enough of one another. Theyve found one an- other...

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...u victual therewith, if not Army and Navy, yet richly such infirm Paupers, in workhouses and elsewhere, as enlightened Charity, dreading no evil of the...

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.... “They end in two ways: Either they sink till the lunatic asylums and the workhouses are full of them, and cause Mr. Wilcox to write letters to the p...

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..., for the supply and increase of useful commodities, and saved more from the grave, than those who built colleges, workhouses, and hospi- tals. All th...

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...perhaps, find another employ- ment; but that part of it which was fixed in workhouses, and in the instruments of trade, could scarce be disposed of wi...