All 6 Uses of
pauper
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Only a pauper.†
Chpt 6pauper = someone who is very poor
- They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight.†
Chpt 8 *
- He thought, but not for long, of soldiers and sailors, whose legs had been shot off by cannonballs, ending their days in some pauper ward, and of cardinal Wolsey's words: If I had served my God as I have served my king He would not have abandoned me in my old days.†
Chpt 10
- The inhabitants are lodged in barrels and boxes, all marked in red with the letters: L. B. several paupers fill from a ladder.†
Chpt 15paupers = people who are very poor
- instructions of the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the impotable water of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by a reading of their meter on the affirmation of the law agent of the corporation, Mr Ignatius Rice, solicitor, thereby acting to the detriment of another section of the public, selfsupporting taxpayers, solvent, sound.†
Chpt 17pauper = someone who is very poor
- Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.†
Chpt 17