Sentence examples for either the workhouse from inspiring English sources

Gracie Fields's famous song "Walter, Walter, take me to the altar" – with its killer last line, "Marry me, make all me nightmares come true" – is illuminatingly quoted: "It's either the workhouse or you".

No work meant either the workhouse or death by starvation.

Dickens And the Workhouse, by Ruth Richardson (Oxford).

Oliver Twist was born in the workhouse but was immediately packed off to the workhouse farm.

What of John Manley, the boy saved from the workhouse?

Destitution meant the workhouse and the dreaded means test.

Dickens used the workhouse; Golding used the desert island.

A number of them lived in the workhouse.

It's on her mother's side that the institution of the workhouse looms large.

On hearing this, the workhouse matron congratulates the Beadle on his literary turn of mind.

This led to the New Poor Law and the Workhouse system, which I've written about before.