pesthouses
- plural of pesthouse.
Example Sentences
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Hence a universal Pythagorean noviciate would, sooner or later, give rise to epidemics, and Chartreuses of nuns would become pesthouses.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
Jails were pesthouses, in which a disease, akin to our modern typhus, flourished often in epidemic form.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.
In all this dreadful visitation there were, as I have said before, but two pesthouses made use of; viz., one in the fields beyond Old Street, and one in Westminster.
From History of the Plague in London by Defoe, Daniel
Now, blessed be God, all our fears are over, for none have died of the infection since the 11th of October, and all the pesthouses have been long empty.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
By having more pesthouses, I am far from meaning a forcing all people into such places.
From History of the Plague in London by Defoe, Daniel
