But on what a thread things turn! If any one had told me an hour ago it was you I should open my heart to! It's not economy: it's not stinginess; they are not paying off their debts. They never can. The baroness and the Demoiselles de Beaurepaire--are paupers."
"Paupers, Jacintha?"
"Ay, paupers! their debts are greater than their means. They live here by sufferance. They have only their old clothes to wear.英文原著 · 《White Lies》
To him all men are alike. He sees whom he pleases and denies himself to whom he pleases. Sometimes he sees a prince and denies himself to a pauper; at other times he receives the pauper and turns the prince away. However, he does not receive many of either class. He has to husband his time for his meditations. I think he would receive Rev. Parker at any time. I think he is sorry for Mr.英文原著 · 《Following the Equator》
Malthus tells us that his book was suggested by Godwin's Inquiry, but it was really prompted by the rapid growth of pauperism which Malthus saw around him, and the book proved the main influence which determined the reform of the English Poor Laws. The problem of pauperism came upon men in its most terrible form between 1795 and 1834. The following statistics will illustrate its growth:英文原著 · 《Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England》
[Lost Illusions.]
CARDINAL (Madame), Parisian fish-vender, daughter of one Toupillier, a carrier. Widow of a well-known marketman. Niece of Toupillier the pauper of Saint-Sulpice, from whom in 1840, with Cerizet's assistance, she tried to capture the hidden treasure. This woman had three sisters, four brothers, and three uncles, who would have shared with her the pauper's bequest. The scheming of Mme. Cardinal and Cerizet was frustrated by M. du Portail--Corentin. [The Middle Classes.]
CARDINAL (Olympe).英文原著 · 《Repertory of the Comedie Humaine-1》
"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?"英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
*I've been a puppet, a pauper* - *a pirate, a poet* - That's not singing!美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I'm a pauper, and somehow I got the king's disease.美剧 · 《Shameless》
I've been transferred to review pauper petitions until such time as I am cleared.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
He died a pauper after his brother-in-law cheated him out of a uniform consignment with the NYPD.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》