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But I regard her gift of this ranch as the first step to perpetual pauperdom.
From Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
After all, I am only a surgeon who has bungled himself into pauperdom.
From New Grub Street by George Gissing
The things of interest will be the wretched things of pauperdom and hospital service—the slight improvement of Gaffer, the spiritual needs of Gammer, the harsh tyranny of upper nurses.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various
Now London beckoned to him, as she had to so many German musicians, to whom she always has stood for the city of gold and of rescue from pauperdom.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes
Hard Times Hance had sprouted from pauperdom and had bloomed into princedom, and his newly acquired partner placed the final mouldings and decorations to his life.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
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