It almost feels like we're a bunch of paupers waiting outside a rich man's house. |
As there were no private clinics then, and hospitals were charitable institutions for paupers, he went to the house of his cousin. |
He has pressed palms with presidents and paupers, gurus and lepers on his journeys across continents. |
They would enter the room as millionaires and a few years later they would be paupers. |
He was buried two days later in unconsecrated ground reserved for convicts, paupers and suicides in an unmarked grave in the cemetery at Toodyay. |
Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |