Sentence examples for for paupers from inspiring English sources

Paper shrouds for paupers," she said.

Congress has never been a place for paupers.

He presided as mayor over a government that assumed responsibility for paupers and banned slaughterhouses within the city limits.

Little by little, she sank into poverty, losing her home and moving into a farm colony for paupers.

Workhouse, institution to provide employment for paupers and sustenance for the infirm, found in England from the 17th through the 19th century and also in such countries as the Netherlands and in colonial America.

At the northern tip of Roosevelt Island, Gabriel points out the Octagon — once the entrance to the Lunatic Asylum for paupers, now the lobby to a luxury rental community.

Life is a long, short, mysterious trek at the best of times and the worst, for pauper and prince alike.

The school reformers in these countries had to combat the prevailing notion that "free schools" were to be provided only for pauper children, if at all; and they had to convince society that general taxation upon the whole community was the only adequate way to provide education for all the children of all the people.

Third class funerals were reserved for pauper funerals; those buried at parish expense in the section of the cemetery designated for that parish.

If the practice of only burying a single family in each grave were abandoned and the traditional practice for pauper burials of ten burials per grave were adopted, the site was capable of accommodating 28,500,000 bodies.

In 1946 the LNC obtained consent to build their own crematorium on a section of the Nonconformist cemetery which had been set aside for pauper burials, but chose not to proceed.