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How to use pauper in a sentence

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And the heat went out of the pursuit eventually, and when he died in 1762, although a pauper, he was no longer a fugitive.
If we go back to the example of the US Supreme Court, a pauper who has to depend on free legal aid is no match for the billionaire.
I'd rather live like a queen for a week and then like a pauper for the next three than live modestly for four.
Vagrants, tramps and casuals were strictly separated from the resident pauper inmates housed in the gothic splendour of the Main Workhouse.
She is supposed to have disguised herself as a pauper for a young priest who, out of charity, took her to an inn to feed her.
He was a tyre kicker, a time-wasting pauper who when he sees a cart for sale walks around it kicking the steel tyres as though he has the necessary.
If she is so opposed to our system and way of life, why doesn't she pass up the profits, live like a pauper, and play in cafes and on street corners?
However, I was as poor as a pauper with a broken carriage and no prince.
Linda's role in the song's creation is undisputed, but he died a pauper, leaving his family too poor even to afford a headstone for his grave.
Most people accept that a dollar is worth more to a pauper than to a plutocrat.
Despite this, the incidence of pauperism was higher in England and Wales, and expenditure per pauper was greater.
Yet Best, for all the girls and glamour surrounding him, was a pauper compared to today's multi-millionaires.
Conservative critics see their school system as an overindulged public-sector lobby, not a pauper.
Ladies and gentlemen of the left, Polanco makes Berlusconi look like a pauper.
Motivated by social and economic forces, churches and philanthropic organizations sent orphaned, abandoned and pauper children to Canada.
Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.
No tariff system can be effective in the epoch of imperialism when there are monstrous contrasts between pauper countries and immensely rich countries.
The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.
But at the gas pump, you'll pay... well, like a pauper.
He guards the sleep of his pauper master, as if he were a prince.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Had any other king been on the throne, panopticon in both 'the prisoner branch and the pauper branch' would have been set at work.
Another never knew a man who had saved a pound out of his earnings who had in the end become a pauper.
I should be glad to know what business a pauper body like this has blathering abroad?
Now, it's my idea that, long's he's bound to be a pauper, he might's well be treated as a pauper.
I can only say, that, pauper as I am, I would not exchange places with the one who has done this deed.
The best way to get rid of the pauper spirit is to pauperize some one else.
By this plan Maine is said to have been without a deaf-mute pauper in ten years.
Even the libertine, that pauper in the realm of Love, wants the perfect life.
In common with all the unclaimed dead of the prison, he was carried to Tewksbury for interment in the pauper burying-ground.
Very often the number is much greater, and yet this does not contain all the pauper lunatics of the metropolitan county.
After all, he is a pauper and a wastrel, and he has not the honour of bearing our Name.
We have witnessed also the development of the pauper and criminal classes.
In this sordid place, and clothed, bedded, and fed like a pauper, this strange princess lived and worshiped during two years, and in it she died.
Even in his native town, he seldom had other than pauper cases to defend.
I should deserve to be the pauper that I am if such had been my habits.
I say, though, did you know that he was a pauper, and lived on skilly?
It was only the beginning of The Prince and the pauper productions.
And indeed I don't know whether he had not been a pauper all his life.
What with mortgages and arrears, I'm as short o' cash as a roadside pauper.
In the 1850s and 1860s, riotous and refractory pauper girls disturbed workhouses, prisons and reformatories in England, Ireland and Australia.
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