Exclusion of placemen and pensionersfrom parliament.
Among the enemy were several hundred of Umra Khan's men, drilled and trained by pensioners from our own Indian Army; and there were, indeed, many of these pensioners themselves in the force which was now advancing upon Chitral.
You laugh at the man's gross superstitions, at his vanity, his greediness at table, his absurd judgments of many of his contemporaries, his abuse of pensioners and his own quick acceptance of a pension.
The average number of white pensionerson the poor fund appears to be fifty-one, that of colored pensioners twenty-six.
In time of war, they tauntingly told us that we might furnish the men, and they would furnish the officers; but in time of peace they find our list of pensioners so large, they complain that we did furnish so many men.
It was the common opinion that the turbulence and violence of the pensioners was so great that, as one of the Company said, "We have more trouble with the pensioners than with all the rest of the Settlement put together.
The pensioners were certainly absolutely useless for the purpose for which they had been sent, that is to preserve order in the country.
We have seen Cardinals in the Service of Sovereigns; and I dare affirm, there are very few of 'em that wou'd refuse to be Pensioners to an Elector of the Empire.
Then, no doubt, the data are equivalent to 77 pensionerswith one wound each, and a half-pensioner with a half-wound.
She makes the number of "pensioners wounded once" to be 310 ("per cent.
The remainder forms the almshouses formerly occupied by the poorer brethren of the Guild and still housing the pensioners enjoying their share of the Clopton benefactions.
I've had one or two complaints about that sweep Jehan Aziz's pensioners already, Lady Arbuthnot, and we are going to inquire.
Behind the long line of sheds, the overhanging bastion belonging to the Royal Pensioners rose dark against the sky, where the sunset still lingered pale, flawless.
So, at all times of the day, and occasionally by the help of a full moon, the royal pensioners gathered strong on the bastion.
That had been the worst blow; but there had been similar ones, and quite a large number of the pensioners invested in new cocks and quails and went about with cheerful countenances.
Before this stood the attendants, near whom were drawn up two lines of pensioners bearing the second course on great gilt dishes, and headed by the sewer.
My only companions were the mice, which came to pick up the crumbs that had been left in those scraps of paper; still, as everywhere, pensioners on man, and not unwisely improving this elevated tract for their habitation.
Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailor's Sung Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.
Finger prints were taken of Pensioners to prevent their personation by others after their death; they were used in the office for Registration of Deeds, and at a gaol where each prisoner had to sign with his finger.
In the identification of Government pensioners the finger print method would be very valuable.
Virginia felt half inclined to go away; but as the pensionersalways treated her with as much respect as any of the ladies of the officers of the hospital, I pressed her arm that she might stay.
I went to the chapel, and although I could not hear well what was said, for I was a long way off from the parson, and the old pensioners coughed so much, I was very much pleased, although a little tired before it was over.
It was near dinner-time, and the pensioners rose and proceeded to the Painted Hall, for at that time they dined there, and not below in the crypts as they do now.
The last time I was at Greenwich, I heard the pensionerssay to one another, "Why, you go ahead about as fast as Opposition Bill.
Next door to the doctor lived another person, who kept a small tobacconist's shop, which was a favorite resort of the pensioners and other poor people.
The pensioners who had witnessed the interview between him and my father, concluding that Sir Hercules was a naval officer, now rose and touched their hats to him as he walked with her ladyship in advance of the party.
Hardly a month passed but we received additional pensioners into the hospital.
Nearly double that number, deported by threats or violence, were scattered over Europe, pensioners on the princes and bishops of their faith, or the institutions of their order.
The pensionerswere originally eighty in number, and the boys, forty-four.
Yonder sit some three-score old gentlemen--pensioners of the hospital, listening to the prayers and psalms.
The old pensioners are courteous to visitors and love to show all they can.
The party consisted of an old sergeant and threepensioners with fixed bayonets, one leading, two behind a party of eight men, in grotesque rough garments.
While the King lay at Fala, waiting for the guns and for information from the army, the Lords began to remember how the King had been long abused by his flatterers, and principally by the pensioners of the priests.
Many of his minions were pensioners to priests; and among them, Oliver Sinclair, still surviving and an enemy to God, was the principal.
The grand-vicar of the Archbishop of Paris went to Port-Royal to make sure that the pensioners had gone.
The old gentleman's mind was running on McMurtagh; and a robuster grin than usual encouraged even others than his chartered pensioners to come up to him for largess.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pensioners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
