1852 31 July 457/1 If anyone will imagine a long room filled with pauper coffins with the lids off, he will have a good idea of our dormitory.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne v. 75 The two who had that day flouted me should live to envy my success, or to weep tears of unavailing penitence behind my pauper coffin.