public crib
Example Sentences
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It sends its officers round every year to gather in the harvest for the public crib, and no widow who owns a piece of land two feet square ever escapes this reckoning.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It was not long before grain was distributed free to all applicants; and a considerable portion of the population of the capital were living in vicious indolence and feeding at the public crib.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
These people seem to consider that it is their right to thus feed at the public crib.
From The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Bridger's share of the spoils—the consulship at Ratona—was little more than a prune—a dried prune from the boarding-house department of the public crib.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
In the United States such men are described as "feeding at the public crib."
From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
