Sentence examples for of paupers from inspiring English sources

The rest mark the graves of paupers.

"No, nor have we found evidence of paupers, for that matter," Knight said.

Their revolutionary idealism may have fallen like a lit match into the islands' population of paupers, heretics, and transported felons.

In the 19th century, settlements of paupers and criminals were established to reclaim the heathlands for agricultural use.

They were often penniless, and when their finances improved they left, making way for the next wave of paupers.

Eton was founded in 1442 exclusively for the children of paupers: no one whose father had an income of more than five marks could study there.

This government's use of private companies – a policy re-affirmed last week by Francis Maude – in the improvement of pauper management has its antecedents in the 18th century, when the task was widely outsourced to willing providers.

It's the simplest of pauper's soups – just what you want when feeling poorly – and it always reminds me of my dad, who was a doctor, which is a fine endorsement for its healing properties.

It proved difficult to employ them on a profitable basis, however, and during the 18th century workhouses tended to degenerate into mixed receptacles where every type of pauper, whether needy or criminal, young or old, infirm, healthy, or insane, was dumped.

But the screen really bends when Anderson gives the characters their own narratives: the tearful emigrants "press-ganged overseas" to the anthemic swells of Miserable Strangers; the miner of Pauper's Dough striking and rioting because he wants "better for my boy"; or Cargill's trawler girl, who was "the finest catch you'll land".

Where possible, each building was separated by an exercise yard, for the use of a specific category of pauper.