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  • Pauper's burials, as they were once known, are financed differently across the U.S., and national statistics on such services are scarce.

    Even in Death, Budget Cuts Take a Toll Kate Linebaugh 2011

  • Here we have Scott making funny shapes with his toque after a few drinks at Pauper's.

    Fun with hats Calamity Jen 2006

  • Here we have Scott making funny shapes with his toque after a few drinks at Pauper's.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Calamity Jen 2006

  • I went into one such store in a town called Pauper's Cove and bought a pair of slippers, having left mine in Pickax.

    The Cat Who Moved A Mountain Braun, Lilian Jackson 1992

  • On this occasion I took advantage of the Chief Pauper's softer mood to pour forth an earnest entreaty for him to save Almah's life, or at least to mitigate her miseries.

    A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

  • The Chief Pauper's love of death had grown to be an all-absorbing passion.

    A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

  • In the same number that contained the "Song of the Shirt" was another impressive poem by Hood, "The Pauper's Christmas Carol," in seven stanzas; but it was entirely overshadowed and eclipsed by its fellow-song, so that it lay, as it has done for the most part since, almost unknown, unhonoured, and unsung.

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • His fame rests almost entirely on lyric, "The Pauper's Grave," which is one of the most popular in the language.

    Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Edmund O. Jones

  • I very gratefully acknowledge the courtesy of the owners of copyright, especially M.ssrs. Hughes & Son, Wrexham, M..O. M. Edwards, and M.. James Lewis, New Quay (to whom my translation of the "Pauper's Grave" belongs).

    Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Edmund O. Jones

  • In those days there was a "Pauper's Corner" in Punch, in which the cry of the people found frequent and touching utterance.

    Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

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