Receiving House

Word RECEIVING HOUSE
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The Cascade Factory is a receiving-house for the women on their first arrival (if not assigned from the ship), or on their transition from one place to another, and also a house of correction for faults committed in domestic service; but with no pretension to be a place of reformatory discipline, and seldom failing to turn out the women worse than they entered it. ❋ Mrs. E. R. Pitman (N/A)

West Philadelphia approach by Thirty-fifth street on the other; directly on the route to the Centennial Exhibition; contiguous to the great railroad artery of the United States, the Pennsylvania Central, a sideling from which will enter the receiving-house of the society ❋ Various (N/A)

He awaited Ahmah-de-Bellah and his committee of head-traders on the piazza of his receiving-house, which was a rather stately edifice, one hundred and fifty feet in length, built to be fire-proof for the protection of our stores. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)

Accordingly Miriam was led from the marble stand into an office annexed to the receiving-house, whither she was followed by the auctioneer and by Nehushta and her servant, whose backs, it was now observed, bent beneath the weight of the baskets that were strapped upon them. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

He took a particular fancy for one of the Edinburgh postmen, whose duty it was, besides delivering letters, to carry a letter-bag from one receiving-house to another. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Doubtless there is some similar receiving-house with its ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

It was then about three o'clock in the morning, and I was very glad when we arrived at the receiving-house, and I was permitted to warm myself before the fire. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

a little in what you may call the respectable thieving line -- the high style of receiving-house -- none of your holes and corners -- first-rate. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Doubtless there is some similar receiving-house with its “leather bag "somewhere in New York, and fixed days (probably the same as our days) for emptying, or rather for tying and despatching, said leather bag: if you deal with the London Packets (so long as I am here) in preference to the Liverpool ones, it will all be well. ❋ Carlyle, Thomas (1883)

Him nearly a quarter of an hour under the ice, and the receiving-house doctor working for an hour before he could bring him to. " ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

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