charity-school

Now all this came of that vile John Fry; I knew it as well as possible; his tongue was worse than the clacker of a charity-school bell, or the ladle in the frying-pan, when the bees are swarming.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

This lady said, “they are like a string of charity-school girls going to church on a Sunday morning.”

Travels in Morocco 2003

Margo sighed, acutely conscious of her charity-school costume and short, dyed hair; but she didn't let that spoil the fun of watching the "quality" pass by.

Time Scout Asprin, Robert 1995

"Mary Clifford, or the foundling apprentice girl," is very appropriately introduced to the auditor, first outside the gates of that "noble charity-school," taking leave of some of her accidental companions.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various

He was born on the 20th of November 1752, and educated at a charity-school on St. Augustin's Back, where nothing more was taught than reading, writing, and accounts.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Eton, at its foundation, was a charity-school for seventy boys.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

The charity-school for girls was established in 1773, and was enlarged and converted into a school of industry in 1800.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 Various

He learned his alphabet from an old music-book; at eight years of age he was sent to a charity-school, and he spent his little pocket-money at a circulating library, the books of which he literally devoured.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

He was sent to a charity-school, where, by a somewhat startling error of the press,

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

In 1769 he married the daughter of a charity-school master or caretaker; and in 1770, the year of Beethoven's birth, his first child, christened Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, was born.

Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913