The mossy thatch of the cow-shed, the broken gray barn-doors, the pauper laborers in ragged breeches who had nearly finished unloading a wagon of corn into the barn ready for early thrashing; the scanty dairy of cows being tethered for milking and leaving one half of the shed in brown emptiness; the very pigs and white ducks seeming to wander about the uneven neglected yard as if in low spirits from feeding on a too meagre quality of rinsings,—all these objects under the quiet light of a sky mar
The Asile de Nuit is a large stone building where pauper and vagabond may get a bed for a week, provided their papers are in order and they can persuade the friars in charge that they are workingmen.
You lived like a pauper when you had plenty of money.
But thenhe lost everything in the due course of time and turned into a pauper again.
He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.
We've all heard the saying 'eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper' – now a large study has hailed it a successful weight loss strategy.
Breakfast like a king, lunch like a princess and dinner like a pauper.
In the 1960s, nutritionist Adelle Davis popularized the mantra: "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006 Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
