About this time not only his hopes were in danger of being frustrated, but his pension likewise of being obstructed, by an accidental calumny.
This was his constant practice during the whole time that he received the pension from the queen: he regularly disappeared and returned.
He had a considerable pension settled on him at his arrival, and was one of the chief physicians at the Russian court.
It then became necessary to inquire more diligently what was determined in his affair, having reason to suspect that no great favour was intended him, because he had not received his pension at the usual time.
Leeward Islands, the same that Pitt's pension is upon.
A pension might well be bestowed on the descendants of Spenser, the only one of our four great poets whose posterity is not extinct.
He has a pension from the King, sir," stuttered Oliver.
Think you, sir, that a pension was granted to you by the state to enable you to eat the bread of idleness while your betters are starving in their garrets?
Scarron's widow was left in poor case, with only her husband's small pension for support, and this was stopped by Colbert on the death of Anne of Austria, in 1666.
He was rescued, and taken from this garret, by the pensionobtained through La Pompadour.
The place no longer holds the "pension bourgeoise de deux sexes et autres" of the naive description on the cards of Madame Vauquer, nee Conflans; and is now let out to families and single tenants.
Mr. Gladstone had suffered an unpleasant experience in another case, of the relations brought about by the refusal of a political pension after inquiry as to the accuracy of the necessary statement as to the applicant's need for it.
The Emperor knowing this, and being much attached to him, allowed him a pension of twelve thousand francs out of his privy purse, and gave him besides frequent presents.
The Emperor, when informed by the Duke of Bassano of the deplorable condition of this woman, at once made a special order granting Madame Dartois an annual pension of sixteen hundred francs, the first year of which was paid in advance.
The Emperor granted her a pension of twelve hundred francs, and took upon himself the education of her son, the only legacy left her by her husband.
Napoleon was deeply moved, and embraced his son, and orders for the pension were given that day.
The next day she received the warrant for a pension of three thousand francs, the first year's pay being handed her at once.
He shall give them a pension equal to the revenue they formerly enjoyed, and their places in the sees thus vacated shall be supplied, both in the Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.
His Majesty gave orders to pay the petitioner the first year's salary of a pension which he at once allowed her; and when General Rapp had informed the widow of the Emperor's action, the poor woman fainted with a cry of joy.
She proved to be the widow of a brave man who had lost his life in the last campaign; and by his death she had been reduced to poverty, and compelled to solicit a pension from the Emperor.
Her husband having served only before the Revolution, the pension which she had enjoyed had been taken from her under the Republic, and she was in the greatest destitution.
Thanks, Sire, but the loss of blood has been too great; my pension will not cost you very dear; I know well that I must soon be off duty, but long live the Emperor all the same!
A pension and decorations canceled the debt of the head of the state to him, but the manner in which he acquitted his own towards the man who had saved his life is worthy of consideration.
The Lamas in charge of it all receive a pension from the court of Peking.
First, for the first ten years after their marriage, they are forbidden to come to Peking, under penalty of having the annual pension the Emperor allows to their husbands suspended.
The minister of the king of the Alechan related, for our edification, that in a particular year, all the tributary princes received their pension in ingots of gilt copper.
In 1866 the irritation had reached such a point that Maximilian, disregarding the feelings of his allies, gave a pension to the widow of General Zaragoza, the hero of the "Cinco de Mayo.
Times is hard with me, I gits $10 pension every month.
Den when dat war was over and 'Kinley was tryin to get us niggers a slave pension dey up and 'sassinated him.
The pension was increased to $60 for about one year.
My daddy drawed a pension fer bein a soldier till he die.
I get ten dollars pensionnow and that is more than they got then.
Always I was a watching for my slave pension to begin coming.
A man said to me once, "Why any man that's done that much for education ought to get a pension from the educator people.
If I can get mypension started, I want to live with my daughter.
I been tryin' to get a pension but don't look like I'm go in' to get it.
In the February following, he received the thanks of parliament for Talavera, and a pension of £2000 per annum was voted to him and his two next heirs male.
He is separated from his wife, Lady Mary, who had a life annuity chargeable on Rochfort's pension from the Ordnance.
He is, however, both smart and intelligent, and is allowed a small pension to wait on company days.
Were I Chancellor of the Exchequer, I'd pension the Moon, and give the Great Bear a sum of money as compensation.
Why, the tears were actually in his eyes when he spoke of the Old Age Pension Bill.
By the bye, have you a pension from the railway company?
No commission in the army, no pension or letter of grace, was to be granted by the Emperor without Wallenstein's approval.
Vainly had the princes present at it interceded for the Dukes of Mecklenburgh; and equally fruitless had been an application by the English ambassadors for a pension to the Palatine Frederick.
And a pension to me now, it's something more than it were.
Sir Austin would not even stop the little pension to poor Berry.
Also, in addition to his cure, he got placed upon the duke of Brabant's pension list, and was entitled to a yearly grant of grain and wine, with some small sum in money.
He was recalled on account of a personal disagreement he had with the duke of Alcudia, but the ministry showed its approval of his action by a pension of L1700 a year.
Monastic vows were deprived of legal force and a pension was granted to the religious who were cast upon the world.
I had to pension her off, poor old soul, and she is gone to the almshouse.
When any existing member of either force retires under the provisions of the Sixth Schedule to this Act, the Treasury may award to him a gratuity or pension in accordance with that Schedule.
He supported her for a while, and after many exertions succeeded in obtaining a pension of fifteen hundred francs from King Louis XVI.
The king grants you a yearly pension of three hundred louis-d'or, and I wish for you and your son that you may live yet many years to enjoy happiness and health.
He settled upon her a yearly pension of four thousand francs, payable her whole life, and the countess accepted it with tears of emotion, and swore eternal gratitude to the cardinal.
These two years of my life passed peacefully, without any other events than my terrible fits of temper, which upset the whole pension and always left me in the infirmary for two or three days.
Then you stand for the Living Pensionas well as for the Living Wage?
We understand you have a pensionof six shillings a week,' says the Chairman.
He was examined at some length on his Living Pension policy at the Local Government Board Inquiry into the Poplar Guardians' administration.
So, although receiving a pension of six shillings a week, he was forced into the workhouse.
Pending the adoption of some national system, he practises in Poplar the policy he urges in public, that of paying a living pension through the Poor Law.
But nearly all pension schemes, like most out-relief systems, fix the allowance at a starvation figure.
The Company took possession of Luckerabad, as a portion of British India, but from a generous compassion towards the deposed chief, graciously accorded him a pension of ten thousand rupees a month during his life.
Never would apply for the pension he was entitled to.
I hope she gets his pension through; it'll mean several thousand dollars for her.
I do get a pension now, I never started buying dis little old 4-room frame dwelling until I was sixty-four years old and paid for it in full in six years and six months.
We been getting a pension about two years and we was on relief for two or three years before dat.
De government gives me a pension and I git along fairly middlin'.
I don't want de pension so much to roam around but to be protected in my old age and to have a few more days of peace.
When worker asked Drucilla what she was going to do with her pension money, she said she was going to build a little house, "As Mammy is tired living in that shack".
