Great pains were taken to inform the colonists of the large sums annually bestowed on pensioned favorites and for the various purposes of bribery.
I asked whether he still played his instrument as beautifully as before, whereupon he assured me that since I had left his oboe had failed to give real satisfaction, and it was now a long time since he had had himself pensioned off.
These pensioned sepoys might also be employed with advantage in the crop season, with the special object of preventing coffee robbery from the plantations, which are often surrounded with villages.
A pensioned sepoy might be advantageously employed to look after the lines, and report on new arrivals, and also keep an eye on persons who may be suspected of stealing coffee.
An application for a sepoy should be made to the officer in charge of pensioned sepoys in Bangalore.
Pensioned poets filled their prologues and epilogues with eulogies on the King and the Duke.
To a request blandly urged in personal converse by a statesman who had already pensioned him, this friar, existing merely by connivance, could not afford to assume attitudes of offended dignity.
The statement of Plowden, that O'Leary was pensioned on condition that he should withhold his pen in support of toleration,[597] will not bear test.
He had pensioned old Stapleton that I might become independent by my own exertions before I had served my apprenticeship; and after breakfast, old Stapleton walked down with me to the beach, and we launched the boat.
The orchestra was then pensioned off, and as I could not have endured to live in complete idleness, I should have soon removed again to some other place.
Her Ladyship adds some further sneers on writers pensioned to amuse people with their nonsense.
Even from Mr. Froude's pages may be wrung the unwilling admission that "the stainless Murray" was neither more nor less than the paid and pensioned spy of Elizabeth.
Had she two thirds of Elizabeth's council of state pensioned as paid spies?
Hummel, who had been called to the post in 1804 in place of Haydn, recently pensioned because of his infirmities, due to old age.
The majority of the Christian population here are cultivators and weavers, while many are the pensioned descendants of the European servants of Bêgam Sumru, and still bear the appellation of Sâhib and Mem Sâhib.
He was a magnificent Mecaenas, and not only pensioned scientific men, but daily assembled them at his table, and in this intellectual communion participating in their pursuits he passed his life.
This application was rejected upon the ground that the disability for which he was pensioned had not increased and that the disease of his eyes was not a result of such disability.
The records of the Pension Bureau show that Perkins was pensioned in 1873 on account of three wounds received at the time and place of Carroll's injury.
This soldier was pensioned in 1863 as sergeant, though before that time he had been acting as captain, and was in command of his company when he was wounded.
He was pensioned for hernia and disease of the lungs.
A physician testifies that the pensioned soldier's death was, in his opinion, brought on indirectly by the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors, and that he died from congestion of the brain.
The husband of this beneficiary was pensioned for a gunshot wound in his right shoulder which he received in 1864 in a battle with Indians.
Besides the pensioned emperor and his relations, whose number amounts to several thousand, many other deposed and pensioned regents and ministers reside here.
The pensioned father reader, Fray Juan de la Concepcion, known as Moriàna, an Andalusian.
His studies finished, he was pensioned from the same patrons, and upheld as an artist by the special protection of every member of the Royal Family.
Marie Antoinette paid for the musical education of the French singer, Garat, and pensioned him for her private concerts.
Every one to be pensioned when he or she reached the age of sixty.
After sixty, they've to be pensioned off, not wanted to do no more work.
The old man, his father, pensioned them, and he hasn't the heart to stop their wages now.
She acted as servant to him, and has been most handsomely pensioned by the Colonel.
And she cried a great deal, and longed to come to England; but the general would not hear of it; so he pensioned her off, and left her at Madras, giving somebody strict orders not to let her follow him.
The singers enter into a contract with the Direction for a term of years, and if they sing or act the full term they may go elsewhere, but they are pensioned by the city for life.
Men in favor with the ruling classes are pensioned for life, and in many cases the pension goes beyond life, and is handed down to descendants on more pleas than is comprehensible.
Pretty well for a pensioned Scotchman: and now let us hear Dr.
For his long services, however, he was pensioned off, and placed in a solitary hut in his old age, to repent of this one act of deception.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pensioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
