ragged school
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The museum is housed in three huge canalside buildings, which once formed the largest ragged school in run by Dr Thomas Barnardo.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
Her little girl was one of the many examples of the blessed effects of a ragged school.
From Gladys, the Reaper by Anne Beale
“What! does Smith teach at the ragged school, then?”
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed
Some four years before, a miserable girl of eleven years old had become one of his ragged school children.
From Gladys, the Reaper by Anne Beale
I have been teaching a ragged school, helping at any charities that needed a hand; but it seems amateur work, and I want to be in the stream of life again!'
From Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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