Sentence examples for as paupers from inspiring English sources

"Angels come to earth in disguises — some come as paupers," a construction worker was quoted as saying.

"Angels come to earth in disguises some come as paupers," a construction worker was quoted as saying.

Still, "they seemed endlessly delighted in posing as paupers and dodging the bill collectors," wrote Gay Talese in an essay called "Looking for Hemingway".

Many people left Spain and Catalonia as paupers and returned years later from colonies like Cuba as millionaires, but the city's elite sneered and nicknamed them los indianos.

Nobody is fool enough to regard Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or the Milan clubs as paupers in the sport, but Europe cannot be regarded as a one-state league.

In "The Little Comedy," they play Alfred Von Wilmers and Josefine Weninger, Schnitzler's bored and vacuous Viennese socialites who seek love in all the wrong places by posing as paupers.

The 9.30am slot is when public health or environmental funerals are held – once known as pauper's funerals.

Typically, if a subject doesn't have the means to pay for their own funeral, Jo will arrange a "contract" or "public health" funeral – historically known as "pauper's funerals".

"So in theory, paupers, as well as plutocrats, could patronize the place".

Don't fret (or swear, in my case): if you look at it from the bottom up, you get PAUPER, as in "The Prince and the Pauper".

The remains of possibly 1,000 people beneath it from the site's 19th-century use as a paupers burial ground.