What is "pauper"

Usage examples of "pauper".

Ali Baba, truly a prince among paupers, did indeed espy his brother, Kassim, traversing his nearby gate.

Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.

Here he was, a chromoplastician in a world ignorant of chromoplasts, an incognito prince amongst sharp-toothed paupers, an uneasy rider in a coach that was now, at last, coming to a stop in a dusty street under a lowering sky.

I was not cast down by the mere apprehension, or rather the mere possibility of failure, for when I looked round on my competitors I was encouraged by the thought that dear old Woollet knew more about a rate appeal than Littledale himself, while old Peter Ryland, with his inimitable Saxon, was quite as good at the irremovability of a pauper as Codd was in accounting for the illegal removal of a duck, and both in their several branches of knowledge more learned than Alderson or Bayley.

Chapman deemed it not unmeet to stake somewhat on my luck, therefore I am no pauper.

The public funds were fourpence three farthing a day for each pauper out of which Jem Hocking managed to purloin twopence, while the rest was grudgingly spent on stale bread, onions, barley and oatmeal.

He frowned down at the naked, jewelless fingers he extended to the scanty heat and clamped his jaw tightly together, hating the anonymity, the hiding, the secretiveness of sneaking into his own country in the guise of a pauper in order to see his friends and supporters.

Panis angelicus Fit panis hominum, Dat panis coelicus Figuris terminum, O res mirabilis, Manducat Dominus, Pauper, Pauper, Servus et humilis .

And so Sir Parceval pays no poor-rates and gets his pauper labour paid for by other paritches.

The poorest people in the town, the paupers in the poorhouse, thought of her as a personal friend to whom they could turn for sympathy and help.

Tomizo set about cooking, feeding his charges truculently as though they were paupers who had been forced on him.

Nadir of misery: the aged impotent disfranchised ratesupported moribund lunatic pauper.

They recalled the hot morning, when they sauntered over the trodden weed that covered the sickly grass-plots there, and sentimentalized the sweltering paupers who had crept out of the squalid tenements about for a breath of air after a sleepless night.

Whether it was to be spent in another wrecked mobile trailer or slinging fried foods at the truck stop, LuAnn Tyler, the pauper, would probably have been happier than Catherine Savage, the princess, ever dreamt of being.

Itaque hujusmodi musica maximo impedimento non solum pauperi et negotioso viro est, sed etiam omnibus generaliter.