After further misfortunes he at length reached the British frontier station of Loodianah, and in 1816 became a pensioner of the East India Company.
East or west the Magpie becomes a pensioner of the slaughter house in winter, and his fondness for meat has often proved his undoing in the cattle country.
Had I offered him a certain sum, we should have had him for a pensioner as long as he lived, but by making him steal the money I force him to be his own security that he 'll never come back again.
I have been his pensioner for nigh a year back: I am so still.
Charles Heathcote is not the man to live a pensioner on a wife's rental; he is far more likely to take service again as a soldier, and win a glorious name amongst those who are now reconquering India.
I gave the pensioner (but I am afraid there may have been a little affectation in it) a magnificent guerdon of all the silver I had in my pocket, to requite him for having unintentionally stirred up my patriotic susceptibilities.
Fifty years ago the minimum cost of living at Cambridge for a pensioner was L150 and double this sum involved no extravagant outlay.
Fifty years ago 8 "chapels" were expected; but if a pensioner kept 6 and a fellow-commoner 4, he was left untroubled by his dean.
At Christ's (1505) the standing of the scholar was defined by requiring him to give instruction in sophistry; but the pensioner was contemplated for the first time as a regular inmate of the college.
Bart told his mother something about the roustabout and their friendly relations, and the bottle of hot coffee, home-made biscuit sandwiches, and half a pie were put up for Bart's pensioner with willing and grateful care.
She was, I believe, for a time a servant or else a kind of pensioner of some relations of my own.
Leadenhall clerk or India pensioner to a deputy Grecian?
The other pensioner I do not positively identify; presumably it was Morgan, Coleridge's old friend, to whom Lamb and Southey had each given ten pounds annually from 1819.
He was believed to be the youngest pensionerof the United States Government.
Hart, of the 73d Pennsylvania, now of this city, who was Adjutant of his regiment, was severely wounded in the early part of the war, and is now a pensioner of the United States.
Truly, I did at first fly out at him and all concerned for what has made me a poor pensioner in my father's house--or rather in the house that was my father's.
That is as it may be; but my being here this second time a pensioner on your bounty is by no good will of mine, I do assure you, sir.
An assurance was given that he would see him again that week, but when the young man went the poor black pensioner had been removed from the prison, and he never heard of him afterwards.
The pensioner gazed for a moment at the wretched object of misery, and then, with a heart full of sympathy, gave him some of the soup and bread.
Some time afterwards it came to the knowledge of this youth that the pensioner had been convicted of a certain crime, not now a capital offence, and sentenced to be executed.
Near the entrance, on the right, is the tomb of Simon Box, the first pensioner there buried in 1692.
The Pensioner won't stand it long," the people said.
The people called him "Old Pensioner Parker," for he fought at Bunker Hill, and received a pension from government.
The Pensioner laid aside his pipe, bent forward, and traced upon the hearth the positions of the troops.
The Pensioner remembered what took place in his early years, but he lost his reckoning many times a day upon what was going on in the town.
His mother and the Pensionerwere sitting before the fire as he entered the house.
While the Pensioner was saying this, he took the tongs and picked a live coal from the fire.
He is a jolly boy," said thePensioner to Paul's mother, as Paul left the room.
For 2, I said I could not introduce child readers to the cells, and I begged for an old Chelsea Pensioner showing his good conduct medal to a little boy.
You may or may not find some bits on page 706, such as the ducking in the pond of the political agitator (very small figures including the old Postman, ex-soldier of Chelsea Pensioner type).
You can't imagine what a Greenwich pensioner I am.
When, many years before, he had become a pensionerof the community, he had been placed with a friendly artisan, where he had been well treated and counted as a member of the family.
His heart soothed by the feeling of a pensioner assured for the rest of his days from anxiety, hunger, and homelessness, he sat at his ease on the turf, feeling the pleasing warmth of the sun on his withered skin.
The patroon glanced from his pensioner to the roll; from the kneeling man to that prodigious list of peccadillos, and then he called for a shilling, a coin still somewhat in use in America.
Then consider not Antonia as descended from the Conde de la Cisternas: Consider her as a poor and unprotected Orphan, as the Grand-child of the Tradesman Torribio Dalfa, as the needy Pensioner of that Tradesman's Daughter.
The conversation was interrupted by the arrival of a young Pensioner who informed the Domina that She was waited for in the Parlour.
My father leaned heavily on my arm with the step and bent head of an ancient pensioner of the Honourable City Company.
He quite forgot to patronize Mrs. Jermyn on the fact of her son being a scholar of Queens' College, while he was a pensioner of Trinity, as he certainly would have done a few months before.
