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Oliver cried loudly. If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan, perhaps he would have cried even more loudly.

Then I told him about the wastage of food in the workhouse kitchen, and what I thought of it.

He had heard old men in the workhouse say it was a good place for brave boys, and that there was always work there for those that wanted it.

You know, I feel very sorry for you, Workhouse, but the truth is your mother was a wicked woman.

When he reached the workhouse, he waited for a minute to make sure his face was suitably tearful and frightened.

At three I left the workhouse kitchen and went back to the spike. The, boredom in that crowded, comfortless room was now unbearable.

The site only allowed for the building to be one room deep, as a workhouse and a barracks lay immediately behind.

Mrs Symmons sent for a hackney coach to remove Eliza and her dead child from her house to the Marylebone Workhouse infirmary.

Also, I had my dinner from the workhouse table, and it was one of the biggest meals I have ever eaten.

He was convinced by the three marks, and the children were taken from the workhouse.

Oliver, on the other hand, who has an air of refinement remarkable for a workhouse boy, proves to be of gentle birth.

'Meat, madam. You've fed him too well here. Back in the workhouse this would never have happened. '

Trange it, astronauts will acquire a workhouse vehicle capable of flying into space and returning many times.

Back at the workhouse, Oliver was taken to see the board. He stood in front of ten fat men who were sitting around a table.

Then, as They drove into the town, he saw the house of Mr So werberry the undertaker, and the workhouse that had been his prison.

The dead baby in the workhouse, the thought of prison and the terrified, ignorant, unhappy young woman prisoner have upset him.

Stella: The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.

Some time afterwards Jim Montgomery died in the workhouse, having come to great poverty through drink.

They discussed some workhouse business together, and then Mr Bumble looked hopefully at the teapot.

This clinic was immediately closed as a "public nuisance" , and the Sanger sisters were sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse.

While the se events were happening in the workhouse, the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates were playing cards in Fagin's house.

Noah hoped that O liver was going to cry, so he continued. 'What did she die of, Workhouse? '

Workhouse, how "s your mother? " he asked.

The woman was sent off to the workhouse, and we others into the spike.

One day Mr Bumble met the local undertaker , Mr Sowerberry, outside the workhouse.

' "Please, Sir, I want some more. " ' . . . Oliver, asking the cook at the workhouse for more gruel.

'My dear, ' said Mr. Sowerberry, deferentially, 'this is the boy from the workhouse that I told you of. ' Oliver bowed again.

The room in the workhouse where the boys were fed was a large stone hall, and at one end the master and two women served the food .

'Why are you crying, Workhouse? '

dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life

and then announced his arrival to the rest of the workhouse

Oliver's illegitimate workhouse origins place him at the nadir of society;

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. (George Bernard Shaw, British dramatist)

Inside the workhouse, you mind your own business

born here in the workhouse . moved to the parish farm

then i ' ii whop you one when i get in , you workhouse brat

Analyses on the Workhouse System of Britain in the 19th Century

On the Workhouse System of Britain in 19th Century