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paw per

  • n  a person who is very poor

  • Prince invites pauper indoors to play.
  • Twenty years ago the rest of the world saw India as a pauper.
  • THE REVERSE DIET By Tricia Cunningham and Heidi Skolnik The "reverse" at the heart of this diet is the adage "Eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch and a pauper for .
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  • Other days
    100 YEARS AGO June 6, 1913 When is a drunken man drunk? How many drinks should a man put under his belt before he reaches that beatific condition where he imagines John D. Rockefeller is a pauper in comparison with himself? These questions, which belong to the same family as the old puzzle, “How old is Ann?” were propounded to Attorney General William L. Moose in a recent letter from W. B. Lloyd ...
    June 6, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Quotes

  • Bill Kenwright in Liverpool Daily Post
    I am a pauper when it comes to other chairmen. I cannot go on like this, we need a new owner and we will continue to try to find one,said Kenwright, who endured a barrage of criticism.
  • Mark Twain in CBS News
    Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a pauper village,Twain writes.
  • Peter Greenaway in Washington Post
    Fifteen years late he was a pauper, he was bankrupt. It's always been very, very difficult to explain this riches-to-rags story,said Greenaway.

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