Pesthouse

Word PESTHOUSE
Character 9
Hyphenation pest house
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Pesthouse"

What do we mean by pesthouse?

An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections

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The word "pesthouse" in example sentences

The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)

"Do you know," said Gloriana, as the black-eyed girl finished relating the afternoon's happenings to her, "I half believe that man snooping around the pesthouse is the robber." ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)

Susan Balée asks Jim Crace Where 'the pesthouse' came from. ❋ Frank Wilson (2007)

We've been running a pesthouse (flu, ear infections, pinkeye, you name it) here for near on a month and I just can't bring myself to yell for help. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The door of the pesthouse had opened abruptly and a short, portly man roughly dressed, unshaved and florid of complexion, appeared on the threshold a moment, eyed the approaching girls indifferently, glanced searchingly toward town, and again vanished within, closing the door behind him. ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)

At all events, there he was, standing erect behind the rail, surprised to find the avenues so large, so silent, the window curtains down, and Paris as gloomy as a great pesthouse; flags everywhere, but such strange flags bearing a red cross on a white field, and no crowd to meet our soldiers. ❋ Various (N/A)

At this broad hint, the curious crowd reluctantly withdrew, and left the trio alone at the pesthouse threshold. ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)

"It's nice to have a Niece Gloriana, too," he answered gruffly, clearing his throat with much gusto; and as there seemed to be nothing further to say, the trio turned from the lonely pesthouse, and silently climbed the hill toward town. ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)

But this afternoon while the assayer was dragging you out of the prospect hole, and I was watching through your field glasses, I happened to turn them in the direction of the pesthouse, and there he was again, humped up on the doorsill, watching through glasses of his own. ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)

We had decided that if we got the smallpox we would go to the pesthouse together, but we heard of the awfully insanitary conditions there, and that they used blankets from one patient's bed for another, so I thought that as long as I did not have it I had better not go and get it. ❋ Unknown (1924)

We only had one in the Mission, but I was glad to have him take it as I had heard how filthy it was at the pesthouse. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Brother Ray always says, "They gave me the name of Elder Ray at the pesthouse." ❋ Unknown (1924)

Brother Ray said he was all right at the pesthouse. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Page 133 was on his feet again and it was time for the scabs to fall off, the officers came for him and took him to the pesthouse. ❋ Unknown (1924)

Later, epidemics of smallpox and cholera have made a prison and a pesthouse of Manila. ❋ Unknown (1914)

So I turned east to avoid them, then north, until I had passed the forlorn yellow pesthouse with its high, deer-park fence, and was well out in the country. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

It was the time of cholera; the boat might have become a pesthouse any moment. ❋ Unknown (1914)

One of his brethren was equally positive that I might partake of bacon and even ham in moderation, but urged that I walk around red meat as though it were a pesthouse. ❋ Tony Sarg (1910)

The largest of the beach shanties, one which stood by itself a quarter of a mile from the light, was hurriedly prepared for use as a pesthouse and the sick sailor was carried there on an improvised stretcher. ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)

When it is taken into consideration that they were undergoing all the drudgery of the pesthouse, even carrying out the remains of those who died, there is no denying that here was heroism and sense of duty surpassing that of a deadly charge on the battlefield. ❋ Unknown (1906)

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