All 14 Uses of
pauper
in
The Prince and The Pauper
- THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER — by Mark Twain 'The quality of mercy …. is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The thron-ed monarch better than his crown'.†
Chpt 1
- Chapter I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.†
Chpt 1
- But there was no talk about the other baby, Tom Canty, lapped in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence.†
Chpt 1
- Oh! he was a prince—a prince, a living prince, a real prince—without the shadow of a question; and the prayer of the pauper-boy's heart was answered at last.†
Chpt 3
- The little prince contemplated the little pauper gravely a moment, then said— "And prithee, why not?†
Chpt 3
- I pray thee of thy grace believe me, I did but speak the truth, most dread lord; for I am the meanest among thy subjects, being a pauper born, and 'tis by a sore mischance and accident I am here, albeit I was therein nothing blameful.†
Chpt 5
- Upon your knees, ye pauper scum,
Chpt 10 *pauper = someone who is very poor
- Man, I did think me changed to a pauper, and ….†
Chpt 10
- In a moment all the heavy sorrow and misery which sleep had banished were upon him again, and he realised that he was no longer a petted prince in a palace, with the adoring eyes of a nation upon him, but a pauper, an outcast, clothed in rags, prisoner in a den fit only for beasts, and consorting with beggars and thieves.†
Chpt 10
- He easily concluded that the pauper lad, Tom Canty, had deliberately taken advantage of his stupendous opportunity and become a usurper.†
Chpt 10
- Ah, yes, but could so fantastic a pauper get admission to the august presence of a monarch?†
Chpt 29
- Then he added with sharp annoyance, "Perdition catch that crazy pauper!†
Chpt 31
- A silence ensued, undisturbed by a movement or a whisper, and all eyes were fixed upon the new-comer, who stood, with bent head and corrugated brow, groping in his memory among a thronging multitude of valueless recollections for one single little elusive fact, which, found, would seat him upon a throne—unfound, would leave him as he was, for good and all—a pauper and an outcast.†
Chpt 32
- THIS my pauper!†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(pauper) someone who is very poor