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. |
And the heat went out of the pursuit eventually, and when he died in 1762, although a pauper, he was no longer a fugitive. |
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. |
Another never knew a man who had saved a pound out of his earnings who had in the end become a pauper. |
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. |