When he mentioned him, he spoke of him casually as his old
pensioner. He had a wonderful satisfaction in seeing him, and in commenting on his decayed condition after he was gone.
First, then, the mistress of the house where these lovers had hitherto met, and who had been for some years a
pensioner to that lady, was now become a methodist, and had that very morning waited upon her ladyship, and after rebuking her very severely for her past life, had positively declared that she would, on no account, be instrumental in carrying on any of her affairs for the future.
And as if it were not enough to have aggrandized the Church, and deprived himself of friends, he, wishing to have the kingdom of Naples, divides it with the King of Spain, and where he was the prime arbiter in Italy he takes an associate, so that the ambitious of that country and the malcontents of his own should have somewhere to shelter; and whereas he could have left in the kingdom his own
pensioner as king, he drove him out, to put one there who was able to drive him, Louis, out in turn.
It was a subtle, intelligent, crafty-looking face, a sort of combined monkey and diplomat phiz, before whom the cardinal made three steps and a profound bow, and whose name, nevertheless, was only, "Guillaume Rym, counsellor and
pensioner of the City of Ghent."
Casaubon: it would be at best a
pensioner's eulogy."
The one man in the house is an old sailor, who has been all his life with his master -- he is a kind of
pensioner at St.
In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." A
pensioner he had said was "A slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master." Was he then to become a traitor to his country and a slave of state?
When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a
pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of reception, but from some alien energy the visions come.
Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich
pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck.
The other gentleman assented, observing that he was expected at the Hospital, and that several
pensioners would be ready to receive him whenever he arrived.
Kings have adorned her with fantastic buildings, endowed her with charities, crammed her with
pensioners, and drenched her with blood.
With that Polly slammed down the window, to the dismay of her gentle little
pensioners, and began to fly about with great energy, singing and talking to herself as if it was impossible to keep quiet.