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pauper

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He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.

So, the prince in the old saying “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper” might need to retire.

So congress has excluded not only diseased, criminal, pauper and anarchist immigrants, but also contract and Chinese laborers.

This woman had three sisters, four brothers, and three uncles, who would have shared with her the pauper's bequest.

Mr. Royall was too close a man to give a dollar a day to a smart girl when he could get a deaf pauper for nothing.

Let us take the policy laid down with regard to each phase of the indoor pauper's life.

There was, of course, to be no alcoholic drink for any class of pauper except by written medical order.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pauper, such as: bankrupt, beggar, bum, dependent, down-and-out, and have-not.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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