Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: paupers
IPA transcription: [p'ɔpɚz]
Usage examples
  • "The paupers," said Almah.
  • "The paupers!" I exclaimed, in amazement.
  • His estates were confiscated, his personal property seized, and there we were, in Germany, strangers, friendless, and in fact paupers.
  • Aunt Joanna was given an elm, and not a mean deal board coffin, such as is provided for paupers; and a handsome escutcheon of white metal was put on the lid.
  • As the Kohen reached the summit there arose a strange sound--a mournful, plaintive chant, which seemed to be sung chiefly by the paupers at the base of the pyramid.
  • There were thirty of them and they arranged themselves in three rows of ten each, and as they stood they never ceased to sing, while the paupers below joined in the strain.
  • At the base there was a crowd of men, with emaciated forms and faces, and coarse, squalid attire, who looked like the most abject paupers, and seemed the lowest in the land.