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  • They take forty to bury Grampa an' we won't get to California--or else they'll bury him a pauper.   (source)
  • Upon your knees, ye pauper scum,   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
    pauper = person 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.   (source)
    paupers = people who are 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.   (source)
    pauper = someone who is very poor
  • They must have met during those days when she'd been playing hookey, from her first school in Toronto, and then later, when she was no longer going to school at all; when she was supposed to be cheering up decrepit old paupers in the hospital, dressed in her prissy, sanctimonious little pinafore, and lying her head off the whole time.†   (source)
  • Thus, a good Bolshevik could sleep soundly in the knowledge that the mahogany bed he was lying on was not his; and despite the fact that his apartment was furnished with priceless antiques, he had fewer possessions than a pauper!†   (source)
  • Everybody, look at what Pauper's done.†   (source)
  • She and Anatole evidently have chosen to live like paupers.†   (source)
  • They already looked like paupers with their unwashed faces, their smoky clothes.†   (source)
  • A description of the murdered man was sent to Keats but the man himself was buried the next day in a pauper's field between the mud flats and the yellow jungle.†   (source)
  • The concept explains the fondness for doubles and self-contained Others in Victorian fiction: The Prince and the Pauper (1882), The Master of Ballantrae, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.†   (source)
  • Hospital authorities had buried the unknown old man in the paupers' cemetery.†   (source)
  • Dumped in the tbemmady kuzbythe pauper's pit—where the police routinely dump their dead.†   (source)
  • Playing here, working in the Fishery, and with a wealthy patron on the horizon, I'd no longer be forced to live like a pauper.†   (source)
  • One of his favored spots was the paupers' cemetery, exposed to the sun and the rain on an indigent hill, where turkey buzzards dozed and the music achieved a supernatural resonance.†   (source)
  • And once in the new country, arriving in Seattle, she found she had married a pauper.†   (source)
  • Apparently there's no pleasure in being a pauper among princes.†   (source)
  • In 1892, for instance, the Reverend Lyman Abbott of New York City pronounced that "at least one-tenth of the population …. belong to the dependent, that is, to the pauper and criminal class….†   (source)
  • Compared to the great cities he had visited, the villages were little more than clusters of hovels, barely fit for even the meanest of paupers.†   (source)
  • I will not have that pauper live like a lady in my house.†   (source)
  • There are certainly more books in Granton: Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, Girl of the Umberlost, The Prince and the Pauper.†   (source)
  • 'You wander through the night, feeding on rats like a pauper and then moon at Babette's window, filled with care, yet helpless as the goddess who came by night to watch Endymion sleep and could not have him.†   (source)
  • Hema, who'd been thinking along similar lines just minutes before, decided she was a pauper by that yardstick.†   (source)
  • One man like him can turn us all to paupers.†   (source)
  • However sunk he was in debt he is no pauper's carrion abandoned on the road.†   (source)
  • The fourth Article of the Confederacy declares "that the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall, in every other, enjoy all the privileges of trade and commerce," etc. Why were the terms free inhabitants used in one part, free citizens in another, and people in another?†   (source)
  • His sad destiny — which was not only to have to rest himself in a box (and a tiny box at that, smaller even than a pauper's box), but to have to embalm himself first.†   (source)
  • One of the most poignant aspects of the account was that her body had for complicated and obscure reasons gone unidentified, had been buried in a pauper's grave, and only after a matter of weeks had been disinterred and sent back for final burial in Virginia.†   (source)
  • Many parents who were hardly more than paupers still believed their sons could do it.†   (source)
  • "The vital nerve of the problem of pauperism," Nikolai Nikolaie-vich read from the revised manuscript.†   (source)
  • Probably give you a case to take with you to the state farm for pauper patients.†   (source)
  • Why, the fees alone will leave us paupers!   (source)
    paupers = people who are very poor
  • Maybe he's the pauper after all.   (source)
    pauper = someone who is very poor
  • Uncle John broke in, "We never did have no paupers."   (source)
    paupers = people who are 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.   (source)
    pauper = someone who is very poor
  • Granma a pauper, an' buried a pauper.   (source)
  • What with mortgages and arrears, I'm as short o' cash as a roadside pauper.   (source)
    pauper = person who is very poor
  • There was a pauper's burial that week in Raveloe, and up Kench Yard at Batherley it was known that the dark-haired woman with the fair child, who had lately come to lodge there, was gone away again.   (source)
    pauper = someone who is very poor
  • I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak.   (source)
    pauper = very poor
  • I'm a pauper and I work my fingers to the bone.†   (source)
  • Ragged-looking Pauper smiled with satisfaction.†   (source)
  • Deng Yi-yi, no longer dressed like a pauper, was smiling at us.†   (source)
  • She was put with the Methodists on Adelaide Street, off in a corner right next to the paupers, but still within the churchyard, so I felt I had done all for her that I could.†   (source)
  • The coverage was usually poor on that site: filming was said to be prohibited, so it was just some desperate pauper with a hidden minivideocam, risking his life for filthy Western currency.†   (source)
  • And he is a man who likes his peace and quiet and for things to be clean and tidy, and is willing to pay for it, although the landlady cannot, her husband having run off on her, so that now she was no more than a grass widow, and a pauper at that.†   (source)
  • She was also the only one for whom Florentino Ariza assumed any responsibility: when he heard that she had died and was going to a pauper's grave, he buried her at his own expense and was the only mourner at the funeral.†   (source)
  • Despite the fingerprint identity cards now carried by everyone, public security in the pleeblands was leaky: there were people cruising around in those places who could forge anything and who might be anybody, not to mention the loose change — the addicts, the muggers, the paupers, the crazies.†   (source)
  • Her sleep was restless; she saw Dr. Juvenal Urbino everywhere, she saw him laughing, singing, emitting sulfurous sparks from between his teeth with his eyes blindfolded, mocking her with a word game that had no fixed rules, driving up to the paupers' cemetery in a different carriage.†   (source)
  • "Deng Yi-yi is from a poor family and she isn't neatly dressed, so you look down on her and call her Pauper.†   (source)
  • And yet he had convinced his mother to buy him a blind man's violin, and with the five basic rules given him by Lotario Thugut, in less than a year he had dared to play in the choir of the Cathedral and to serenade Fermina Daza from the paupers' cemetery according to the direction of the winds.†   (source)
  • They climbed the hill of the paupers' cemetery, where Florentino Ariza played the violin according to the direction of the winds so that she could listen to him in bed, and from there they viewed the entire historic city, the broken roofs and the decaying walls, the rubble of fortresses among the brambles, the trail of islands in the bay, the hovels of the poor around the swamps, the immense Caribbean.†   (source)
  • Come on, Pauper!†   (source)
  • "Now here's a really wonderful coffin," Leslie's grandfather said, after showing her the pauper's pine model to rouse her appetite for higher quality.†   (source)
  • From then on I assumed we were paupers.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't want to be buried as a pauper in Potter's Field.†   (source)
  • Now Miss Rosa was not only an orphan, but a pauper too.†   (source)
  • Nobody can afford a modern apartment—except the very rich and the paupers.†   (source)
  • I'll not live on a top-floor that was meant for goyim and paupers!†   (source)
  • You and the Old Man like to make out you're paupers, but you've a sock full of money.†   (source)
  • Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized.†   (source)
  • I'm not asking any girl to marry a pauper.†   (source)
  • Siva is a pauper, furthermore, and no one knows anything of his birth.†   (source)
  • There are enough stupid patriots who are risking every cent they have in the blockade and who are going to come out of this war paupers.†   (source)
  • "I don't mean that they'll be paupers; the old boy will always be good for an odd thirty thousand a year, but there'll be a shake-up coming soon, and when the upper-classes get the wind up, their first idea is usually to cut down on the girls.†   (source)
  • Like a pauper in a single garment he dressed for her, To the Ekur, the house of Enlil, all alone he directed his step.†   (source)
  • I took her to her apartment building, which was quite a few cuts above Adam's joint, for Governor Stanton hadn't died exactly a pauper, and left her in the lobby.†   (source)
  • …may not have had anyone to tell it to: so she was right about the father too since if he hadn't made General Lee and Jeff Davis mad he wouldn't have had to nail himself up and die and if he hadn't died he wouldn't have left her an orphan and a pauper and so situated, left susceptible to a situation where she could receive this mortal affront and right about the brother-in-law because if he hadn't been a demon his children wouldn't have needed protection from him and she wouldn't have…†   (source)
  • It's kept me a poor man all my life, and when I die they'll have to give me six feet of earth in Pauper's Field.†   (source)
  • He had voluntarily made himself a pauper but he could have gone to his grandfather since although he was probably better mounted than any other at the University, not excepting Bon himself, he probably had very little money beyond what he could raise hurriedly on his horse and what valuables he happened to have on his body when he and Bon rode away.†   (source)
  • Do you think Pa is a pauper?†   (source)
  • A pauper, but the fountainhead of wealth; terrifying but the source of grace; snake-garlands or jewel-garlands he can assume or put off at will.†   (source)
  • Accursed and bloody monster that it is, it will not be content until it has sucked out my life-blood, sold the roof over my head, and sent me out to the pauper's grave to perish.†   (source)
  • He saw plainly by this time that their poverty, the threat of the poorhouse, the lurid references to the pauper's grave, belonged to the insensate mythology of hoarding; anger smouldered like a brand in him at their sorry greed.†   (source)
  • Perhaps she saw in her father's death, in the resulting necessity upon her as not only an orphan but a pauper, to turn to her next of kin for food and shelter and protection—and this kin the niece whom she had been asked to save—; perhaps she saw in this fate itself supplying her with the opportunity to observe her sister's dying request.†   (source)
  • They don't need me among their number, either to brighten the record of patriotism or to increase the roll of paupers.†   (source)
  • I don't plead material necessity: the fact that, an orphan a woman and a pauper, I turned naturally not for protection but for actual food to my only kin: my dead sister's family: though I defy anyone to blame me, an orphan of twenty, a young woman without resources, who should desire not only to justify her situation but to vindicate the honor of a family the good name of whose women has never been impugned, by accepting the honorable proffer of marriage from the man whose food she…†   (source)
  • So Miss Rosa was both pauper and orphan, with no kin above dust but Judith and the aunt who had been last heard of two years ago while trying to pass the Yankee lines to reach Illinois and so be near the Rock Island prison where her husband, who had offered his talents for horse— and mule-getting to the Confederate cavalry remount corps and had been caught at it, now was.†   (source)
  • "She's a pauper that's hung onto us all after her father'd done his best to ruin us.†   (source)
  • SHIRLEY [bursting into tears] Oh God! it's true: I'm only an old pauper on the scrap heap.†   (source)
  • Her child to be buried in a pauper's grave!†   (source)
  • "Is that the Larkin pauper?" he asked, bruskly, without any greeting to Jane.†   (source)
  • And indeed I don't know whether he had not been a pauper all his life.†   (source)
  • Such a man is the able-bodied, able-minded pauper.†   (source)
  • Man, I did think me changed to a pauper, and ….†   (source)
  • "But, my dear fellow, in that case, why didn't you get him a pauper's funeral?†   (source)
  • Ah, yes, but could so fantastic a pauper get admission to the august presence of a monarch?†   (source)
  • To such allowances the ablebodied pauper and his nomadic variant the tramp are equally entitled.†   (source)
  • Chapter I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.†   (source)
  • Then he added with sharp annoyance, "Perdition catch that crazy pauper!†   (source)
  • In Maine and New Hampshire any man can vote who is not on the pauper list.†   (source)
  • The idea of coming along the open streets, in the broad light of day, with a Pauper!'†   (source)
  • The human nature of paupers, of slaves, of slave-holders, or the human nature of wealthy freemen?†   (source)
  • 'Careering and prancing about with a Pauper!'†   (source)
  • The successful man of the world cursed the old pauper and relieved him from time to time.†   (source)
  • He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.†   (source)
  • 'Why, what's the matter with the boy!' said the old pauper.†   (source)
  • What have paupers to do with soul or spirit?†   (source)
  • 'We put the sick paupers into open carts in the rainy weather, to prevent their taking cold.'†   (source)
  • It is a eye I never knew to fail with paupers.†   (source)
  • I thought it was always usual to send them paupers in carts.'†   (source)
  • 'It wasn't any impudence from any of them male paupers as—'†   (source)
  • I know!' said Mr. Bumble, checking himself, with native majesty, 'this is them wicious paupers!'†   (source)
  • Look here, I know of two families of dirty, unpicturesque, Hessian paupers that that fellow, with an infinite patience, rooted up, got their police reports, set on their feet, or exported to my patient land.†   (source)
  • The last squire dragged out his existence there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he established a large practice.†   (source)
  • Elsie Leslie, the little actress, was in Boston, and Miss Sullivan took me to see her in "The Prince and the Pauper."†   (source)
  • You are a pauper.†   (source)
  • The preachers spoke morally of the effect of alcohol on paupers, and the bankers of the disrespect for savingsaccounts which is always to be seen in the kind of men who insist on becoming cadavers.†   (source)
  • An English policeman or Poor Law Guardian would recognize them as a selected band of tramps and ablebodied paupers.†   (source)
  • "It is an ignorant place, except as to the townspeople, artizans, drunkards, and paupers," she said, perverse still at his differing from her.†   (source)
  • And, an admirable contrast, the article ended with a description of the middle-class, ordinary, prosaic funeral of him who should have been buried like a prince or like a pauper.†   (source)
  • But I, as one of the undeserving poor, have nothing between me and the pauper's uniform but this here blasted three thousand a year that shoves me into the middle class.†   (source)
  • I had rather be a thief than a pauper.†   (source)
  • Precisely the same qualities that make the educated gentleman an artist may make an uneducated manual laborer an ablebodied pauper.†   (source)
  • He easily concluded that the pauper lad, Tom Canty, had deliberately taken advantage of his stupendous opportunity and become a usurper.†   (source)
  • The little prince contemplated the little pauper gravely a moment, then said— "And prithee, why not?†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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'.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • THIS my pauper!†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Sometimes this obscure corner received no inhabitant for the space of two or three years, and then it was usually but a pauper, a poacher, or other sinner of undignified sins.†   (source)
  • In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.†   (source)
  • The furniture of the room was old-fashioned and dusty; and the green baize on the top of the writing-table had lost all its colour, and was as withered and pale as an old pauper.†   (source)
  • I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America.†   (source)
  • But presently Dent brings up a poor fellow who has killed a hare, and when I've got through my 'justicing,' as Carroll calls it, I'm inclined for a ride round the glebe, and on my way back I meet with the master of the workhouse, who has got a long story of a mutinous pauper to tell me; and so the day goes on, and I'm always the same lazy fellow before evening sets in.†   (source)
  • Even in this system fraud was frequent; but still the work put needed capital in the hands of practical paupers, and some, at least, was well spent.†   (source)
  • In the United States, except slaves, servants, and paupers in the receipt of relief from the townships, there is no class of persons who do not exercise the elective franchise, and who do not indirectly contribute to make the laws.†   (source)
  • As a consequence, country airs circulated in Soho with vigorous freedom, instead of languishing into the parish like stray paupers without a settlement; and there was many a good south wall, not far off, on which the peaches ripened in their season.†   (source)
  • A layman who pried into the professional conduct of medical men, and was always obtruding his reforms,—though he was less directly embarrassing to the two physicians than to the surgeon-apothecaries who attended paupers by contract, was nevertheless offensive to the professional nostril as such; and Dr. Minchin shared fully in the new pique against Bulstrode, excited by his apparent determination to patronize Lydgate.†   (source)
  • …to succor the unfashionable and the eccentric? rich enough to make the Canadian in his wagon, the itinerant with his consul's paper which commends him "To the charitable," the swarthy Italian with his few broken words of English, the lame pauper hunted by overseers from town to town, even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house, from the general bleakness and stoniness; to make such feel that they were greeted with a…†   (source)
  • The summonses served and his witnesses forewarned, the beadle goes to Mr. Krook's to keep a small appointment he has made with certain paupers, who, presently arriving, are conducted upstairs, where they leave the great eyes in the shutter something new to stare at, in that last shape which earthly lodgings take for No one—and for Every one.†   (source)
  • …after which, the skinned freeman had liberty to bestow the remnant in his barn, in case it was worth the trouble; there were taxes, and taxes, and taxes, and more taxes, and taxes again, and yet other taxes—upon this free and independent pauper, but none upon his lord the baron or the bishop, none upon the wasteful nobility or the all-devouring Church; if the baron would sleep unvexed, the freeman must sit up all night after his day's work and whip the ponds to keep the frogs quiet;…†   (source)
  • If a shaggy pauper had a right to bed and board and wages and a vote, women, of course, who were weaker than paupers, and whose physical tissue was in itself an appeal, should be maintained, sentimentally, at the public expense.†   (source)
  • They let the paupers go to sleep!†   (source)
  • His estates were confiscated, his personal property seized, and there we were, in Germany, strangers, friendless, and in fact paupers.†   (source)
  • That is why he had a very simple funeral for Fantine, and reduced it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave.†   (source)
  • It seemed that from such a basis of truth and frankness as the poor weak-headed pauper had laid, our intercourse might go forward to something better than the intercourse of sages.†   (source)
  • Osborne used to call the other the old pauper, the old coal-man, the old bankrupt, and by many other such names of brutal contumely.†   (source)
  • He had to pass a poor, mean burial-ground—a dismal place, raised a few feet above the level of the street, and parted from it by a low parapet-wall and an iron railing; a rank, unwholesome, rotten spot, where the very grass and weeds seemed, in their frouzy growth, to tell that they had sprung from paupers' bodies, and had struck their roots in the graves of men, sodden, while alive, in steaming courts and drunken hungry dens.†   (source)
  • In America those complaints against property in general which are so frequent in Europe are never heard, because in America there are no paupers; and as everyone has property of his own to defend, everyone recognizes the principle upon which he holds it.†   (source)
  • If a shaggy pauper had a right to bed and board and wages and a vote, women, of course, who were weaker than paupers, and whose physical tissue was in itself an appeal, should be maintained, sentimentally, at the public expense.†   (source)
  • Some attempts had been made, I noticed, to infuse new blood into this dwindling frame, by repairing the costly old wood-work here and there with common deal; but it was like the marriage of a reduced old noble to a plebeian pauper, and each party to the ill-assorted union shrunk away from the other.†   (source)
  • One day, in particular, an inoffensive, simple-minded pauper, whom with others I had often seen used as fencing stuff, standing or sitting on a bushel in the fields to keep cattle and himself from straying, visited me, and expressed a wish to live as I did.†   (source)
  • And you'd have finished your days a pauper nobody, instead of being an actually launched and recognized lawyer today.†   (source)
  • The cemetery of the Madeleine, a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust.†   (source)
  • The mossy thatch of the cow-shed, the broken gray barn-doors, the pauper laborers in ragged breeches who had nearly finished unloading a wagon of corn into the barn ready for early thrashing; the scanty dairy of cows being tethered for milking and leaving one half of the shed in brown emptiness; the very pigs and white ducks seeming to wander about the uneven neglected yard as if in low spirits from feeding on a too meagre quality of rinsings,—all these objects under the quiet light of…†   (source)
  • A "submerged tenth" of croppers, with a few paupers; forty per cent who are metayers and thirty-nine per cent of semi-metayers and wage-laborers.†   (source)
  • Then the active and intelligent, who has got into the morning papers as such, comes with his pauper company to Mr. Krook's and bears off the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed, while our dear brothers and sisters who hang about official back-stairs—would to heaven they HAD departed!†   (source)
  • A revolution such as that of '63 is a terrible thing; they that rose rich in the morning often slept in paupers' beds.†   (source)
  • I said aside, to Traddles, that I wondered whether it occurred to anybody, that there was a striking contrast between these plentiful repasts of choice quality, and the dinners, not to say of paupers, but of soldiers, sailors, labourers, the great bulk of the honest, working community; of whom not one man in five hundred ever dined half so well.†   (source)
  • He was hardly in his grave before the boom collapsed and left his envied young devil of an heir a pauper.†   (source)
  • Her husband's character is not good, but it is as good as Bareacres', who has played a little and not paid a great deal, who cheated you out of the only legacy you ever had and left you a pauper on my hands.†   (source)
  • He would have had my money some day or other; or his children would—for I'm not in a hurry to go, Miss Briggs, although you may be in a hurry to be rid of me; and instead of that, he is a doomed pauper, with a dancing-girl for a wife."†   (source)
  • She was a pauper and homeless.†   (source)
  • So, too, Colonel Eaton, the superintendent of Tennessee and Arkansas, ruled over one hundred thousand freedmen, leased and cultivated seven thousand acres of cotton land, and fed ten thousand paupers a year.†   (source)
  • It was so in the case of a magazine sketch which I once started to write—a funny and fantastic sketch about a prince and a pauper; it presently assumed a grave cast of its own accord, and in that new shape spread itself out into a book.†   (source)
  • Jos himself, who had looked on her as a good-natured harmless pauper, to whom it was his duty to give victuals and shelter, paid her and the rich little boy, his nephew, the greatest respect—was anxious that she should have change and amusement after her troubles and trials, "poor dear girl"—and began to appear at the breakfast-table, and most particularly to ask how she would like to dispose of the day.†   (source)
  • She gathered up her baby once more; but when her eye fell upon its miserably short little gray tow-linen shirt and noted the contrast between its pauper shabbiness and her own volcanic eruption of infernal splendors, her mother-heart was touched, and she was ashamed.†   (source)
  • 'If you please, mistress,' said a withered old female pauper, hideously ugly: putting her head in at the door, 'Old Sally is a-going fast.'†   (source)
  • There's a obstinate pauper for you!'†   (source)
  • The master, in his cook's uniform, stationed himself at the copper; his pauper assistants ranged themselves behind him; the gruel was served out; and a long grace was said over the short commons.†   (source)
  • There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.†   (source)
  • Having rested here, for a minute or so, to collect a good burst of sobs and an imposing show of tears and terror, he knocked loudly at the wicket; and presented such a rueful face to the aged pauper who opened it, that even he, who saw nothing but rueful faces about him at the best of times, started back in astonishment.†   (source)
  • But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies.†   (source)
  • And all the infant paupers might have chorussed the rejoinder with great propriety, if they had heard it.†   (source)
  • The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.'†   (source)
  • He merely returned their salutations with a wave of his hand, and relaxed not in his dignified pace, until he reached the farm where Mrs. Mann tended the infant paupers with parochial care.†   (source)
  • He looked dejectedly round, and slunk away; and, as he reached the door, the titterings of the paupers broke into a shrill chuckle of irrepressible delight.†   (source)
  • We have given away, Mrs. Corney, we have given away a matter of twenty quartern loaves and a cheese and a half, this very blessed afternoon; and yet them paupers are not contented.'†   (source)
  • He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bumble, seeing with excruciating feelings, the delight of the two old paupers, who were tittering together most rapturously, hesitated for an instant.†   (source)
  • I and two paupers, Mrs. Mann!†   (source)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.†   (source)
  • ') Whether an exceedingly small expansion of eye be sufficient to quell paupers, who, being lightly fed, are in no very high condition; or whether the late Mrs. Corney was particularly proof against eagle glances; are matters of opinion.†   (source)
  • It was rather expensive at first, in consequence of the increase in the undertaker's bill, and the necessity of taking in the clothes of all the paupers, which fluttered loosely on their wasted, shrunken forms, after a week or two's gruel.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Corney shook her head mournfully, as if deploring the mental blindness of those paupers who did not know it; and thrusting a silver spoon (private property) into the inmost recesses of a two-ounce tin tea-caddy, proceeded to make the tea.†   (source)
  • And with this, the old lady applied herself to warming up, in a little saucepan, a basin full of broth: strong enough, Oliver thought, to furnish an ample dinner, when reduced to the regulation strength, for three hundred and fifty paupers, at the lowest computation.†   (source)
  • As Mr. Bumble spoke, he made a melancholy feint of grasping his lantern with fierce determination; and plainly showed, by the alarmed expression of every feature, that he did want a little rousing, and not a little, prior to making any very warlike demonstration: unless, indeed, against paupers, or other person or persons trained down for the purpose.†   (source)
  • The dove then turned up his coat-collar, and put on his cocked hat; and, having exchanged a long and affectionate embrace with his future partner, once again braved the cold wind of the night: merely pausing, for a few minutes, in the male paupers' ward, to abuse them a little, with the view of satisfying himself that he could fill the office of workhouse-master with needful acerbity.†   (source)
  • To the performance of this feat, however, there was one obstacle: namely, that pocket-handkerchiefs being decided articles of luxury, had been, for all future times and ages, removed from the noses of paupers by the express order of the board, in council assembled: solemnly given and pronounced under their hands and seals.†   (source)
  • He experienced no other crosses on the way, than those which originated in the perverse behaviour of the two paupers, who persisted in shivering, and complaining of the cold, in a manner which, Mr. Bumble declared, caused his teeth to chatter in his head, and made him feel quite uncomfortable; although he had a great-coat on.†   (source)
  • He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth.†   (source)
  • Does not banditism, that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains?†   (source)
  • Here was an opportunity for Mr. Tulliver to provide for his wife and daughter without any assistance from his wife's relations, and without that too evident descent into pauperism which makes it annoying to respectable people to meet the degraded member of the family by the wayside.†   (source)
  • …those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast fortunes were made; something that occasionally rose like a sea, and did some harm and waste (chiefly to itself), and fell again; this she knew the Coketown Hands to be.†   (source)
  • Bear me out in it, thou great democratic God! who didst not refuse to the swart convict, Bunyan, the pale, poetic pearl; Thou who didst clothe with doubly hammered leaves of finest gold, the stumped and paupered arm of old Cervantes; Thou who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!†   (source)
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