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    pauper


    1. to live like a prince, but it will take away the life of the pauper


    2. He also made a solemn vow to his wife later that evening that, willing or not, Cyberia would marry the very first man, be he prince or pauper, that pressed the buzzer on the security gates that separated the family mansion from the mean streets that housed the capital’s hoi-polloi


    3. marry the very first man, be he prince or pauper, that pressed the


    4. It must pay little, or there were few capital trials, because he seemed practically a pauper


    5. “If you weren’t a pauper, you’d have a proper household, with proper slaves to cook and clean for you, instead of that corpse Philemon and that old crone whatshername who


    6. doubt, be at this moment a shivering pauper in that terrible poorhouse,


    7. But if you’re the pauper then when you gain the kingdom


    8. He paid attention to the 1,700 to 1,800 employees, 400 to 500 of whom were pauper children


    9. If you reach retirement as a pauper dependant upon charity, having lived a life of quiet desperation, frustrated, never having achieved anything much of note, not really having had a good time (apart from the odd high point), never having dreamed, never beaten a real challenge, then your life is a failure by any standards, but certainly by your own


    10. ‖ Finally, during the conference call I told the judge about having money so THANK GOD he denied the motion to proceed as a pauper which in effect stopped all court orders

    11. Even better is the money he's making from it, he's bringing in over six figures a year, which Roland says is more than he ever made when he worked as a senior staff, the impecunious pauper now have become a millionaire


    12. His life has changed from prince to pauper


    13. And who were the guards to argue with the Prophet’s closest friend? So late at night he and ‘A’isha carried into town the body of some unknown pauper from the graveyard


    14. He would equally condemn the irreligious pauper and commend the consecrated and worshipful man of wealth


    15. “He was always just charismatic and inspirational enough that he could get a pauper to give his last penny for the cause, as he often put it


    16. "So what is this meeting all about exactly? Did Alex have to describe what base he got to with the lowly flight attendant? First base is okay, but second base is trouble and a home run means he becomes a pauper overnight? Is that the protocol?"


    17. Heaven will be a place for servants as well as masters, for maids as well as mistresses, for poor as well as rich, for the unlearned as well as the learned, for tenants as well as landlords, for subjects as well as rulers, for the pauper as well as the Queen


    18. And in the modern era, as the naivety of a Nehruvian socialistic pattern of society perpetuated the Islamic legacy of celebrating poverty, Mother India remained a pauper in the vice-like grip of the State, tightened further by his self-serving daughter Indira, till Narasimha Rao unshackled it by the Manmohanamic wrenches!


    19. “How can you be seeing that pauper? Why have you condescended so low? Have you forgotten so easily that you are from the royal house? Be wise my daughter, be wise


    20. Furthermore it would do little to alter the obvious desperate condition of the pauper standing before him, or even allay his hunger temporarily

    21. The pauper then departed after offering heartfelt words of thanks and saying goodbye to the kindest, most open-handed man he had ever met during his life


    22. From being extremely successful he had become a pauper


    23. She was a pauper with little but the patched rags and single pair of shoes she stood in, and a few meagre possessions


    24. They withdrew from God, the Source of Mercy and Goodness and indulged in this world and its passing desires: they followed the whims of their spirits, stripping their humanity layer by layer till their hearts became as hard as rock or iron, feeling no sympathy with anyone, even a helpless pauper or a defenceless animal


    25. He may forfeit them both, being a pauper and resigned to his condition after his previous prestige and wealth; yet one day, he will inevitably leave it


    26. Through these steps taken by the virtuous scholar (his soul has been sanctified by Al’lah) no-one except the very needy pauper and those on the brink of starvation came to receive the portion of rice for them and their families


    27. prince or pauper, philosopher or slave, there is a mysterious something which he neither understands nor controls


    28. What happened when Thomas Edison patented his ideas? He died a pauper because of all the legal battles over the ownership of his patents


    29. I felt like telling him, Hey, I'm the pauper


    30. If you reach retirement as a pauper

    31. Nay, it may well be that on those journeys into remote regions he came across now and then a specimen of the pauper gentleman, with his lean hack and his greyhound and his books of chivalry, dreaming away his life in happy ignorance that the world had changed since his great-grandfather's old helmet was new


    32. When he wrote those lines in which "with a few strokes of a great master he sets before us the pauper gentleman," he had no idea of the goal to which his imagination was leading him


    33. companies of infantry that are not twelve leagues off, in which I shall enlist, and there will be no want of baggage trains to travel with after that to the place of embarkation, which they say will be Carthagena; I would rather have the King for a master, and serve him in the wars, than serve a court pauper


    34. If so, and if that be thy pleasure, I give it to thee now, once and for all, and much good may it do thee, for so long as I see myself rid of such a good-for-nothing squire I'll be glad to be left a pauper without a rap


    35. Yes, he said; nearly everybody is a pauper who is not a ruler


    36. On the other hand, the men of business, stooping as they walk, and pretending not even to see those whom they have already ruined, insert their sting--that is, their money--into some one else who is not on his guard against them, and recover the parent sum many times over multiplied into a family of children: and so they make drone and pauper to abound in the State


    37. They themselves care only for making money, and are as indifferent as the pauper to the cultivation of virtue


    38. Only a pauper


    39. They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight


    40. , on the 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

    41. 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


    42. Do you think Pa is a pauper? He’s got all the “I do appreciate good advice so much,” said Scarlett, with all the sarcasm she could money I’ll ever need and then I have Charles’ property besides


    43. 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 a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all paused over as a "charming bit," touching other sensibilities than


    44. I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak


    45. 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


    46. "Do you mean to tell me," she cried out, "that he left NOTHING! That Sara will have no fortune! That the child is a beggar! That she is left on my hands a little pauper instead of an heiress?"


    47. The child is left a pauper


    48. That spoiled, pampered, fanciful child is left a pauper on my hands


    49. 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


    50. Our aristocratic home mud has flourished without any protection, and the pauper mud of Europe or any other mud could never beat our home product

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    Synonyms for "pauper"

    pauper beggar indigent bankrupt insolvent

    "pauper" definitions

    a person who is very poor