In 1767 there were twenty-one paupers in Danvers, Mass.
Even town paupers had two or three gallons of rum or a barrel of cider given by the town to serve as speeding libations at their unmourned funerals.
These wretched paupers were sold to the lowest bidder.
In the case of paupersand shipwrecked persons the fees are payable by the parish.
In the case of paupers dying in a parish house, or shipwrecked persons whose bodies are cast ashore, the overseers or guardians are responsible for their burial; and in the case of suicides the coroner has a similar duty.
Many of these people, rich one day, are practically paupers on the morrow.
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A dwelling for a number of paupersmaintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.
Do paupers and criminals come for the right of suffrage?
They proclaim their purpose to be to exclude paupers and criminals from abroad.
Investigation of the causes of this deplorable state of affairs revealed an astonishing understanding between the paupers and the officials.
But when the overseer proposed to place the boy in the family of a man whom even the paupers looked down upon and despised, his soul rebelled even against the mandate of the powerful magnate of the town.
It was not only his duty to be a great man, but to impress other people, especially paupers and children, with a just sense of his importance.
Besides, one or two of the old paupers were rather corrupt in their manners and morals, and were not fit companions for a young immortal, whose mind, like plastic clay, was impressible to the forming power.
The house was still, for all had long ago retired to their rest, and he could hear the sonorous snores of the paupers in the adjoining rooms.
The paupers in the poorhouse lived sumptuously, compared with those who gathered around the board of Jacob Wire.
Squire Walker, Jacob Wire, and most of the paupers who were the companions of our hero, are dead and gone, and the living speak gently of the departed.
All male citizens, except paupers and persons excused from paying taxes at their own request, resident in the state six months, and in the town three months.
Every male citizen, except paupers and persons under guardianship, having resided in the state one year, in the town or district six months; and having paid a tax within two years, or is legally exempt from taxation.
I begin to fancy paupers oughtn't to indulge in flowers.
If we consider the cases of thieves, vagabonds and paupers we find their crimes and vices likewise running in families.
Paupers may be divided into two classes, those whose poverty is due to misfortunes and those whose poverty is due to vicious idleness.
In occasional relief, the white paupers receive about three times as much as the colored.
The number of white paupers relieved appears to be twenty-nine: of the other class, four: being in the proportion of fourteen to one.
The number of white paupers receiving relief is stated to be twenty-five; that of the other class, two; being in the proportion of twenty-eight to one.
The number of free black and colored persons is about double that of the whites; so that the proportion of white to that of colored paupers in the Bahamas, is nearly two to one.
The average number of white paupersappears to be one hundred and fifteen; that of the other class, fourteen; although there is no doubt that the population of the latter class greatly outnumbers that of the former.
It is time we should become a little more Americanized, and instead of feeding the paupers and laborers of England, feed our own; or else in a short time, by continuing our present policy, we shall all be rendered paupers ourselves.
So long as the Irish paupers find that they can improve their condition by coming to England, thither they will come.
In commenting on the growth of paupers they ascribed pauperism to seven sources.
The bankers were denounced as "the greatest knaves, impostors and paupers of the age.
A considerable number of the paupers were immigrants, who, fleeing from exploitation at home, were kept in poverty in America, "the land of boundless resources.
The very men who profited by them were the mainstays of churches, and not only that, but they were the very same men who formed the various self-constituted committees which demanded severe laws againstpaupers and petty criminals.
That was my first plan, but Uncle showed me that it was wiser not make genteel paupers of them, but let them pay a small rent and feel independent.
Therefore, clearly, they have to be kept at the expense of those who do work, just as paupers have, and are a mere burden on the community.
So the game continued,--the honest fellows sweating at the cranks, and anxious to get the work done and go out to look for more profitable labor, and the paupers by profession taking matters quite easy.
This would not shut out any one who would be of value to American institutions, but it would require European countries to care for the criminals and paupers which their own social system has bred.
Another criticism which might be made is that thepaupers are provided with no regular religious service.
The fact remains, however, that the city of Boston does not give its paupers the benefit of any religious service or guidance.
After saying that, I propose, without any regard as to whom it may please or displease, to point out candidly what seems to me inexcusable thoughtlessness and grievous errors in the treatment of the paupers in these institutions.
You must remember that many people here are paupers through no fault of their own.
We come this morning to examine into the attitude of Boston toward her paupers who are cared for in the two institutions at Long Island and Rainsford Island.
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.
He looked dejectedly round, and slunk away; and, as he reached the door, the titterings of the paupers broke into a shrill chuckle of irrepressible delight.
We put the sick paupers into open carts in the rainy weather, to prevent their taking cold.
We have given away, Mrs. Corney, we have given away a matter of twenty quartern loaves and a cheese and a half, this very blessed afternoon; and yet them paupers are not contented.
And all the infantpaupers might have chorused the rejoinder with great propriety, if they had heard it.
Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.
He merely returned their salutations with a wave of his hand, and relaxed not in his dignified pace, until he reached the farm where Mrs. Mann tended the infant paupers with parochial care.
I thought it was always usual to send them paupers in carts.
The same result would probably have been true in agriculture had not the corn laws long prevented this consummation, and instead distributed the surplus to paupers and the holders of government bonds through the medium of taxes.
The cottagers whose commons were lost to them by enclosures frequently failed to find a niche for themselves in their own part of the country, and became paupers or vagabonds.
In the last century, as John Timbs tells us, there was additional provision for the relief of the paupers of the prison, in what was known as the "Running Box.
There were no end of hard-living parsons flung into the Fleet for debt, and as these men were always paupers in purse, they were put to strange shifts to keep themselves in meat and drink--especially the latter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paupers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
