pauper

He returned home a pauper without a pension and 50 years later, at 70, chronicled the travails of the War of Independence.

So, the prince in the old saying “eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper” might need to retire.

I felt that desperation and recklessness of poverty which only a pauper knows.

The mother of four of them was a widow, the fifth child was apparently a pauper, billeted upon her in consideration of 5s.