lazar-house

"I will give one thousand sucres to the lazar-house of Quito if a bull kills a man this day."

The Madness of John Harned 2010

Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital.

FOREWORD 2010

It is most unreasonable to flee the knowledge of good like the infection of a horrible disease, and batten and grow fat in the real atmosphere of a lazar-house.

Lay Morals 2005

And if some among us take it that banishment to work in the lazar-house is a further penance, thought Cadfael, going away reasonably content, let them take satisfaction from it.

The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

Some of them move on, from lazar-house to lazar-house, and make no long stay anywhere.

The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

Some of them move on, from lazar-house to lazar-house, and make no long stay anywhere.

The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

And if some among us take it that banishment to work in the lazar-house is a further penance, thought Cadfael, going away reasonably content, let them take satisfaction from it.

The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

It was originally a lazar-house founded about 1350.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Naples, the most delightful spot on earth, perhaps, for situation and climate, to dwell on the recollection like a whited sepulchre, a gilded lazar-house of helpless and incurable wretchedness.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

It was in the season of a terrible epidemic, and physicians who had braved pestilence and death, heaped together in the great hospitals of the city -- who had made a home of the lazar-house, when to breathe its atmosphere was almost to die -- were among those who were to be given up as victims to party.

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens