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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Deliberately choosing to marry in an area full of paupers - Benjamin might just have well have been in Frome!
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During those decades bands of pauper migrants went on the tramp in search of food and a living.
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Mr. Chapman enquired of the Board whether the paupers and children should be allowed to have money in the workhouse.
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Some say Meurent died so abject a pauper that no papers were kept, no gravesite marked.
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The fall was most dramatic among out-door paupers.
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The Latin pauper means a person of modest means rather than some one without food, roof, or clothing.
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The overseers didn't like working the pauper children, and having to beat them to keep them at their tasks.
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There was nothing for girls, only drudgery and breeding, specially paupers like herself.