Meanings of old pauper in English

With the curate's wedding the old pauper's brief career of prosperity ended.

Good-night, my dear Jacob, and good luck to your old pauper.

But could that old pauper have seduced this Ida?

The poor old pauper was quite as willing to talk as the boy was to listen.

A nephew came one fine day and fetched away the old pauper, to his great delight.

The successful man of the world cursed the old pauper and relieved him from time to time.

The old pauper was called away, and went shuffling along to the door, leaving Zachariah to his meditations.

This old pauper had only lately come into "the House" (the house that never was a home!

I whipped the gold piece out of the poor old pauper's palm and dropped my Turkish penny in its place.

Mistaking the motion, he disappeared, and in his stead I saw a withered old pauper with the Victoria Cross on his breast.

Osborne used to call the other the old pauper, the old coal-man, the old bankrupt, and by many other such names of brutal contumely.

The next year, however, this law was repealed and the old pauper-school plan reëstablished, largely due to the pressure of church and private-school interests.

While his sister comforted the child, Tom went to the "authorities" to inform them that an old pauper had gone the way of all flesh.

"The old pauper has nothing else to give, unless it be the bones of his ancestors."