“In the early nineteenth century, the colony endured crippling poverty, settling into a kind of torpor.”

“The formulaic nature of the movie demonstrates a distinct poverty of imagination.”

“The poverty of the soil and the exposed nature of the coast drove the Dutch first to fishing.”

“Instead single parents indentured their children and many others came from the poorhouse and other asylums.”

“And the reality was, that without some kind of financial support, the widow and the children would end up in the poorhouse, and that was the basis for the legislation.”

“Goodwin says in her own family tree she discovered a great-aunt whose place of birth was the Govan poorhouse, and whose mother's occupation was listed as pauper.”

“He was unable to study beyond the elementary level owing to his family's impoverishment.”

“This process has been accompanied by an impoverishment in the level and quality of life.”

“In the midst of this immense amassment of capital and impoverishment of workers and peasants, corruption is the rule of the day.”

“I'd rather live like a queen for a week and then like a pauper for the next three than live modestly for four.”

“Vagrants, tramps and casuals were strictly separated from the resident pauper inmates housed in the gothic splendour of the Main Workhouse.”

“If we go back to the example of the US Supreme Court, a pauper who has to depend on free legal aid is no match for the billionaire.”

“Thus, from the poorness of his family, he had not the honor of a regular education.”

“The limitations of Poe's art may have grown out of the narrowness of his theory rather than the poorness of his workmanship.”

“Remembered as a benchmark of poorness, a level they must not let themselves sink to again.”

“The glory of Crcy or Poitiers was dearly bought by the upgrowth of English pauperism.”

“From what has just been detailed, it will be seen how amazing is the extent of pauperism and mendicity.”

“Meanwhile, the country continued to descend deeper into fragmentation, general pauperism, and mutual predacity.”

“The coming months a new debt crisis due to the global crisis even threatens to accelerate this pauperization.”

“This has led to the anarchic exploitation of resources and the pauperization of the local, rural population.”

“The result has been the widespread pauperization of the peoples of the countries of the Great Lakes region in which conflicts have arisen.”

“After losing his fortune in the stock market crash, he had no choice but to accept his new reality and embrace his pauperdom.”

“In the volatile economic climate of Georgian Britain, even this slender lifeline might preserve a broken old redcoat from pauperdom or worse.”

“We and the Russians and the French, and the UN, and the Turks and the other Arabs, permitted millions of people to die or be reduced to misery and pauperdom.”

“Unlike some of the ultra rich who will benefit from an illconceived scheme, some of the Irish players would be paupers by comparison.”

“True enough, the fairytale ending which would have seen the paupers overcome the might of the nouveau riche was lacking.”

“Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses.”