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someone who is very poor

I want to go to a college where the loans won't leave me feeling like a pauper-in-waiting.

pauper = person who is very poor

pauper = person who is very poor

He had no intention of letting the authorities turn them into paupers.
Mina Baites -- The Silver Music Box

paupers = people who are very poor

What with mortgages and arrears, I'm as short o' cash as a roadside pauper.
George Eliot -- Silas Marner

pauper = person who is very poor

She did not look like a pauper.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

pauper = someone who is very poor

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

pauper = person who is very poor

We see that every pauper wears the anklet of title in Umuofia.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

pauper = person who is very poor

One year later 1,500 lawyers were prepared to take the pauper's oath to qualify for work relief.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers

pauper = someone who is very poor

You got to report a death, an' when you do that, they either take forty dollars for the undertaker or they take him for a pauper.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

pauper = someone who is very poor

And the way he moves, even the way he holds himself, is refined and graceful, deliberate and delicate, like he's lived his life as a prince and is now pretending to be the pauper.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

pauper = someone who is very poor

So felons were not lodged and fed better than soldiers, (to say nothing of paupers,) and seldom set fire to their prisons with the excusable object of improving the flavor of their soup.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

paupers = people who are very poor

The rook knew he would be easy to spot in the capital city, so as he left the encampment, he grabbed a blanket and draped it over his battlements to give himself the appearance of an anonymous pauper.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

pauper = person who is very poor

And far better that crows and ravens — if any ravens there be in these regions — should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a workhouse coffin and moulder in a pauper's grave.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

pauper = someone who is very poor

Under the chair, there were several piles of grimy books. Emily reached down and looked at the spines. The Red Badge of Courage. The Prince and the Pauper. She remembered reading them in...
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars

pauper = person who is very poor

None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty, even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch's robe.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

pauper = person who is very poor

On my hands and knees while scrubbing the bathroom tile, I imagined I was the prince in the story The Prince and the Pauper.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It

pauper = someone who is very poor

They take forty to bury Grampa an' we won't get to California—or else they'll bury him a pauper.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

pauper = someone who is very poor

pauper = someone who is very poor

pauper = someone who is very poor

pauper = someone who is very poor

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