pauper

Example Sentences

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“No more merchants or clerks are wanted,” he wrote; “and of those who come hereafter, nine-tenths will go back disappointed or impoverished, or stay here paupers.”

From Los Angeles Times

Korins reminds people that Van Gogh was a pauper who sold only one painting in his lifetime.

From Seattle Times

Children "ended up in pauper graves," Ms Scott said.

From BBC

He noted the presence of the phrase in the 1876 Texas Constitution, which allowed Black people to vote — though it excluded people convicted of felonies as well as “paupers” and “lunatics.”

From Washington Post

He eventually had to sign a pauper's oath, a sworn statement declaring he was essentially destitute, in order to gain resources to feed his family.

From Salon