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Other paintings of his met similar critical obloquies: The Gleaners, 1857, "have enormous pretensions�they pose like the three fates of pauperdom."

From Time Magazine Archive

He liked fine stuffs peculiarly, and even in his pauperdom wore silk next to his skin.

From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Hughes, Rupert

As things are, many thousands of people in every English county either lack these necessaries altogether, or get them only in return for the accursed badge of pauperdom.

From Denzil Quarrier by Gissing, George

But I regard her gift of this ranch as the first step to perpetual pauperdom.

From Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

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 Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)