All 6 Uses
pauper
in
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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- 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.†
Chpt 3pauper = someone who is very poor
- He was hardly in his grave before the boom collapsed and left his envied young devil of an heir a pauper.†
Chpt 4
- His estates were confiscated, his personal property seized, and there we were, in Germany, strangers, friendless, and in fact paupers.†
Chpt 6 *paupers = people who are very poor
- She was a pauper and homeless.†
Chpt 8pauper = someone who is very poor
- And you'd have finished your days a pauper nobody, instead of being an actually launched and recognized lawyer today.†
Chpt 13
- 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.†
Chpt A.N.
Definitions:
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(1)
(pauper) someone who is very poor
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)