public crib

Example Sentences

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In the United States such men are described as "feeding at the public crib."

From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher

Growing extent and complexity plus the need for finding safe places for those who are useful to the rich and powerful, widens and deepens the public crib.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

These people seem to consider that it is their right to thus feed at the public crib.

From The Children of the Poor by Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

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 Henry, O.

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 Stanton, Elizabeth Cady