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单词 labour house
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labour house
labour house n. (a) poetic a laboratory; (b) a workhouse (now historical).
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1712 R. Blackmore Creation iv. 169 Did Chymic Chance the Furnaces prepare, Raise all the Labour-Houses of the Air, And lay crude Vapours in Digestion there? When Nature is employ'd with wondrous Skill To draw her Spirits, and her Drops distil.
1778 J. Bentham View Hard-labour Bill 1 This Bill has two capital objects: 1st, To provide a new establishment of Labour-houses all over England.
1885 M. Arnold Poems III. 191 Somewhere, surely, afar, In the sounding labour-house vast Of being, is practised that strength.
1887 Times 10 Oct. 3/3 George Green, 20, was charged with stealing two coats and two bugles..from Dr. Barnardo's Youths' Labour House.
a1924 M. Ghose Coll. Poems (1974) III. ii. 368 His forge, this labour house of being, His purpose to shape out Through flickering shadows, smoke and gloom.
2002 E. O'Sullivan in P. O'Mahony Criminal Justice in Ireland x. 185 One of the labour houses to be established for vagrants and other persons of bad character.
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