bridewells

Nay, rather cloisters, bridewells, or slaughterhouses — grown old among a company of boys, deaf with their noise, and pined away with stench and nastiness.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

They made a point of visiting most of the jails and bridewells in the towns through which they passed, finding in some of them horrors far surpassing anything that Newgate could have shown them even in its unreformed days.

Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

The Birmingham Institution, under the same management, has also succeeded to such an extent that it is in contemplation to establish another there on a larger scale; which, no doubt, will most seriously tend to impair the utility of those magnificent edifices, our gaols and bridewells, which everywhere afford such vast but by no means empty accommodation.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

How eloquently she enlarges upon the gin she has drunk, the children she has confided to the parish, the watchmen whose noses she has broken, and the bridewells which she has visited in succession!

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

Visit our station houses, bridewells, jails, almshouses, and penitentiaries, and you will there witness the effects of this horror of horrors.

Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women. James T. Haley 1895

They made a point of visiting most of the jails and bridewells in the towns through which they passed, finding in some of them horrors far surpassing anything that Newgate could have shown them even in its unreformed days.

Elizabeth Fry Pitman, E R 1884

The carriages on the Verona and Venice Railway are not those strong-looking, crib-like machines which we have in England, and which seem built, as our jails and bridewells are, in anticipation that the inmates will do their best to get out.

Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849

Nay, rather cloisters, bridewells, or slaughterhouses -- grown old among a company of boys, deaf with their noise, and pined away with stench and nastiness.

The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus 1502