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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

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 Hughes, Rupert

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

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)

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