Paupers
[pɔ:pəz]
Examples
- It wasn't any impudence from any of them male paupers as--' 'No, no, love! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Well, I said, and in oligarchical States do you not find paupers? Plato. The Republic.
- What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I thought it was always usual to send them paupers in carts. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is a eye I never knew to fail with paupers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You will remember that in the oligarchy were found two classes--rogues and paupers, whom we compared to drones with and without stings. Plato. The Republic.
- But I'd liefer sweep th' streets, if paupers had na' got hold on that work. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I and two paupers, Mrs. Mann! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We put the sick paupers into open carts in the rainy weather, to prevent their taking cold. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- 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. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And all the infant paupers might have chorussed the rejoinder with great propriety, if they had heard it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They let the paupers go to sleep! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Editor: Lois