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Examples
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He died in 1931 and was buried in a pauper's grave.
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Robert Blatchford compares the workhouse pauper's daily diet with the soldier's, which, when he was a soldier, was not considered liberal enough, and yet is twice as liberal as the pauper's.
THE HUNGER WAIL 2010
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When the sultan caught word of the pauper's subversive acts, he had him dragged into his court.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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He died in 1931 and was buried in a pauper's grave.
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And the sultan spared no expense throwing an extravagant festival in the pauper's honor.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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People laughed and cheered at the pauper's imitations, as many of their friends, relatives, and spouses had been needlessly beheaded by the sultan.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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And the sultan spared no expense throwing an extravagant festival in the pauper's honor.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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People laughed and cheered at the pauper's imitations, as many of their friends, relatives, and spouses had been needlessly beheaded by the sultan.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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When the sultan caught word of the pauper's subversive acts, he had him dragged into his court.
Doug Lieblich: The Lost 1001 Arabian Nights Doug Lieblich 2011
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While some states and counties provide funds to help defray the cost of pauper's burials, as they were once known, charities are the only source of assistance in other places.
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