Examples from literature

• Once at the wish of a friend I was visiting I went to carry some comforts to a neglected almshouse on a Western prairie. 
• She soon earned quite a sum of money, which she placed at interest in the bank, and she was then able to take her grandmother out of the almshouse. 
• The church and Court are beautifully placed above the old village and a picturesque group of almshouses line the upward way to them. 
• Their monasteries were mission stations, which resembled ours in being dispensaries for the sick, almshouses for the poor, and nurseries of learning. 
• There are numerous convents, almshouses, and schools.