| It is conceivable that Plymouth officials housed paupers in the poorhouses of one of the neighboring towns, as permitted by the 1774 statute. |
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| He has pressed palms with presidents and paupers, gurus and lepers on his journeys across continents. |
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| Starvation deaths are most endemic among these agrarian labourers and among the rural paupers. |
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| It almost feels like we're a bunch of paupers waiting outside a rich man's house. |
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| They would enter the room as millionaires and a few years later they would be paupers. |
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| He was buried two days later in unconsecrated ground reserved for convicts, paupers and suicides in an unmarked grave in the cemetery at Toodyay. |
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| True enough, the fairytale ending which would have seen the paupers overcome the might of the nouveau riche was lacking. |
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| At this rate the country will become a land of paupers pandering to third world countries. |
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| This means people will not belong to any of the classes or professions, but will simply be poor and helpless paupers. |
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| As there were no private clinics then, and hospitals were charitable institutions for paupers, he went to the house of his cousin. |
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| Unlike some of the ultra rich who will benefit from an illconceived scheme, some of the Irish players would be paupers by comparison. |
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| Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |
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| Disease spread rapidly among the half starved and half clothed paupers. |
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| Draperies, factories and warehouses attracted the country's paupers in their search for work. |
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| Directors of such banks prosper while depositors turn paupers. |
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| He was making his plans to hunt witches, making his plans to make and unmake kings and bring austerity to princes as well as to paupers. |
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| It was invaluable experience, but we were all absolute paupers. |
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| Moreover, 38,388 people were identified as rate payers and 1,072 as paupers. |
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| To Bentham, who willed his own body to the University of London, it was perfectly just to put the bodies of paupers to scientific use as a means of repaying their public debt. |
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| What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves, and triflers of both sexes, might be advantageously spared! |
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| They also worked for others as apprentices, or as bound labor paying off a debt, or because they were put out to work by county officials as paupers or orphans. |
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| You carry within you true treasures: powers and gifts you do not even guess at, but from ignorance you weep like paupers. |
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| They came back at noon, served the paupers at table, and kept watch to make them observe order during the meal. |
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| Irish emigrants to rural economies in the New World were decisive opportunists, not paupers shovelled out. |
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| The ceremony was performed on elderly paupers, who presented themselves at court on Holy Thursday, washed and dressed in clean clothes and having undergone a careful medical examination. |
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| And results were not lacking: the groups of paupers that had separated from the Church returned to ecclesial communion or were gradually reduced until they disappeared. |
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| In a manner reminiscent of the Saturnalia, nobles and paupers changed roles, the Mass was parodied in Church, and dancing was continued to the point of exhaustion. |
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| These riverboat exiles are not cheats or paupers. |
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| His fabulous wealth made the greedy Burmese generals look like paupers. |
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| The same year witnessed a violent outbreak of cholera in Upper and Lower Canada, and rising concerns that too many paupers were arriving in the colony. |
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| The great influx from Britain in these years also included poor immigrants who had been assisted by charitable organizations wanting to rid the United Kingdom of paupers and help them make a fresh start in the colonies. |
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| Returning to the hospice around six in the evening, they took the paupers to the refectory and ended the day with them, as they had begun it, by having them say their prayers. |
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| The inferior pilgrims and paupers were relegated to the north hall or almonry, just within the gate. |
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| He gave generously to religious causes, paid for the feeding of 500 paupers each day and helped orphans. |
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| The 1851 Census lists apprenticed paupers from Temple Cloud in Somerset, some of the earliest English immigrants. |
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| The Carnegie Commission on Poor Whites had concluded in 1931 that nearly one third of Afrikaners lived as paupers. |
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| Hart's Island has been used for the past 50 years as a potter's field for the burial of the paupers. |
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| Rations provided for the indoor staff were much the same as those for the paupers, although more generous. |
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| As well as the overall administration of the workhouse, masters were required to discipline the paupers as necessary and to visit each ward twice daily, at 11 am and 9 pm. |
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| Near to the entrance were the casual wards for tramps and vagrants and the relieving rooms, where paupers were housed until they had been examined by a medical officer. |
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| In lieu of a workhouse some sparsely populated parishes placed homeless paupers into rented accommodation, and provided others with relief in their own homes. |
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| Mill owners made contracts with the guardians in London and the southern counties to supply them paupers, in batches of 50 or more, to be apprenticed. |
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| He controlled the boards of guardians and appointed the dispensary doctors, regulated the diet of paupers, inflicted fines and administered the law at petty sessions. |
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| The nearest public telephones are located in Paupers Walk, next to the pigeonholes. |
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