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Перевод: almshouse

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Тезаурус:

1. He sent off three drawings for Theo's delectation - "Dinner Time", "Lighting the Fire", and "Almshouse Man".
2. One of the benefactors for whose soul prayers were offered was William Knight, formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells, and it was from his goods entrusted to John Dakyn for disposal that the almshouse received its foundation.
3. A row of pollard willows sometimes resembles a procession of almshouse men.
4. For more than 300 years, since 1602, the building was used as an almshouse, but its beginnings were less humble.
5. He could see part of the canal, part of a garden, barges loaded with potatoes, a rear view of houses being pulled down by workmen, and in the distance rows of trees and street lamps, a complicated little almshouse with its gardens, and finally a grand expanse of roofs.
6. In order to expiate his sins and make sure of his place in Heaven, in 1556 he founded the Hospital of St John the Baptist, an almshouse for the "support and relief of poor and indigent people".
7. Apart from Brooke, an obscure little house, all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital, or almshouse, at Oakham, which only had goods worth 40s.: clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates: Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding.
8. The rent was one shilling and tenpence for each dwelling - I remember the amount because Miss Young went to the Church Vestry to pay for both herself and her neighbour each Saturday morning at the same time that I was collecting the pensions for the Almshouse Ladies.
9. The work, which is interesting but time-consuming, involves maintaining the almshouse, or the Dakyn Flats as it is now more popularly known, and other properties owned by the trust and from which rents are collected.
10. Next to the Chapel is the former infirmary - later the almshouse.
11. The present Vicar of Kirkby Ravensworth, the Rev Peter Hulett, suggested - and it is just his opinion - that the dedication of the almshouse to St John may have been because John Dakyn felt himself lucky to have escaped the fate of that saint.
12. There was free distribution of milk to the poor and broth to the sick in the villages nearby, and an almshouse was established, modelled on those which Nicholas had seen in Holland.
13. Their father died when George was three years old, and the strongest influence on him, until she died when he was thirty-four, was his mother Magdalene, the patroness of John Donne, who wrote a well-known poem to her: Donne, in preaching her funeral sermon, described how, "as her house was a court in the conversation of the best and an almshouse in feeding the poore, so it was also a hospital in ministering relief to the sick.