Do we say penchant or pension

penchant 57 occurrences

mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity &c 820; willingness &c 602; liking, love, fondness, relish.

The Thames tunnel is too amphibious an affair to be included in the number; but the ship canal project, the bridge-building mania, and the penchant for working mines by steam, evidently belong to them.

And furthermore, certain anecdotes told in the first section, particularly in the first eighty pages, are such stories as would have appealed to Defoe's penchant for the uncanny, and might well have been selected by him.

Brown is an individual with a sense of humor and a Mark Twain penchant for ten-pfennig cigars.

" Like most close-knit, centripetal communities, we have a fatal penchant for nicknames in Our Square.

She had distinguished me very favorably, and I was vain enough to suppose she honored me by some jealousy of my penchant for the signorina.

Finally, Mr. ARTHUR HATHERTON, as Lob, the host of the party, a kind of hoary old Puck who had a penchant for filling his house every Midsummer Eve with people who wanted a Second Chance, interpreted Sir JAMES'S whimsical fancy to the very top of freakishness.

As artists, it would be a hell of a lot easier if our audiences were more tolerant of our penchant for boring them.

By a curious law of contrariety the woman with a broad, heavy chin seems to have an ungovernable penchant for trig little round bonnets, or trim turbans with perky aigrettes, like that in sketch No. 22.

He must have been born a thief, and perhaps stole the spoon with which he was fed; but the penchant runs in the family, for Vidocq and his brother rob the same till of a fencing-room, but his brother is first detected, and sent off "in a hurry," to a baker at Lille.

He especially had been impressed by the numbers of corks that flew in the house and on the green; and when I invited him to a bottle of champagne, he made hissing sounds and a plop to indicate that Rui had a penchant for that kind of wine.

But the epistle, instead of describing Mr. L as an artist, merely designated him "an honest bonnet-maker," who had a penchant for lionizing, and who desired to be introduced to Dr. Southey in "the way of business."

"I hope," said Mr. Chromatic, "it may be Tenorina, for I imagine Graziosa has conceived a penchant for Sir Patrick O'Prism.

Acquaintance with an actor fed Munden's penchant for the stage, but did not fill his pocket.

Cotthay, quoique assez considérable, n'a point de murs; mais elle a un beau et grand château composé de trois forteresses placées l'une au-dessus de l'autre sur le penchant d'une montagne, lequel a une double enceinte.

a bien cent milles, et néanmoins, dans toute la longueur de cet espace, il n'existe d'autre forteresse ou lieu de quelque défense qu'un village et une maison que Cénaym-Bay a fait construire sur le penchant d'une montagne, avec une mosquée.

'L'envieux oiseau nocturne, Triste, ouvrira son oeil rond; Les nymphes, penchant leur urne, Dans les grottes souriront.

IX JOIE HORS DU CHÂTEAU Le soir vient, le soleil descend dans son brasier; Et voilà qu'au penchant des mers, sur les collines, Partout, les milans roux, les chouettes félines, L'autour glouton, l'orfraie horrible dont l'oeil luit

l'ombre secourant l'ombre, L'âme obscure venant en aide à l'âme sombre, Le stupide, attendri, sur l'affreux se penchant, Le damné bon faisant rêver l'élu méchant! L'animal avançant lorsque l'homme recule!

au penchant des mers, i. e. where the land slopes to the sea.

A peculiar expression; au penchant de la terre would be more usual.

" Se penchant vers les dahlias, Des paons cabrent des rosaces lunaires L'assou pissement des branches vénère Son pâle visage aux mourants dahlias.

Votre penchant pour moi est-il si sérieux?

Il me semble qu'oui; du moins me parloit-il de penchant.

Je me brisai hier d'une chute sur l'escalier, je roulai tout un étage, et je commençois d'en entamer un autre quand on me retint sur le penchant.

pension 1046 occurrences

I was dismayed at first with the number of letters received from all over France asking my intercession with the minister on every possible subject from a "monument historique" to be restored, to a pension given to an old schoolmaster no longer able to work, with a large family to support.

Richelieu and Mazarin were so superstitious as to employ and pension Morin, another pretender to astrology, who cast the nativities of these two able politicians.

Any person who exhibits excitement upon the stage is discharged at the end of the week with a pension.

Besides her pension of fifty pounds a year, as an army officer's widow, there had been five hundred pounds left with the agent of her estate for her, for which Amelia did not know that she was indebted to Major Dobbin, until years later.

To my surprisement der Herr Director tells me I can retire on a pension; I am too old unt he has hired a younger man, who iss Herr Gabert.

When I was a year old Mrs. Withers was discharged; and because she had been observed to nurse me with uncommon care and affection, and was seen to shed many tears at parting from me; to reward her fidelity sir Edward settled a small pension on her, and she was allowed to come every Sunday to dine in the housekeeper's room, and see her little lady.

At the time I have the earliest recollection of her, she was become a widow, and with the pension sir Edward allowed her, and some plain work she did for our family, she maintained herself and her supposed daughter.

After two or three years they are free to rescind the contract; after ten or twelve they may leave their husbands with a stipulated pension.

to Queen Elizabeth; a man for personage, parentage, grace, gesture, valour, and many excellent parts, inferior to none of his rank in the court; who, though his lands and livelihoods were but small, having nothing known certain but his annuity and his pension, yet in state, pomp, magnificence and expenses, did equalise barons of great worth.

No pension compensates for the loss of husband, son, or father.

She left him, by will, a yearly pension of two thousand livres, which was always regularly paid him.

Johnson would have gone to Constantinople, as he himself said, had he received his pension twenty years earlier.

I could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket.'

On the top of those ruddy hills lay a baronetcy for him, and a few extra hundreds in his pension, and he meant having them both that day.

Either yesterday morning, or this, I communicated to Dr. Johnson, from Mr. M'Aulay's information, the news that Dr. Beattie had got a pension of two hundred pounds a year.

Poor Shenstone never tasted his pension.

It is not very well proved that any pension was obtained for him.

Beattie was staying in London till his pension got settled.

Early in July he had been told that he was to have a pension of £200 a year (ante, ii. 264, note 2).

Elizabeth was said to have granted Spenser a pension which Burghley intercepted, and to have ordered him a gratuity which her minister neglected to pay.

293, n. 2; Johnson's pension and W. Strahan, ii. 137, n. 1; Lee, Arthur, iii. 68, n. 3; life, wished to repeat his, iv.

292; gives him his Western Islands, ii. 290; four volumes of the Lives, iii. 372, n. 3; interview with, ii. 33; account of it, ii. 42; iii. 32; v. 125, n. 1; second interview, ii. 42, n. 2; pension, i. 372; v. 379; proposed addition to it, iv.

366, n. 2; Rousseau's pension, ii. 12, n. 1; Scotch favourites, i. 363; sea, at the age of 34 had not seen the, i. 340; n. 1; Shakespeare sad stuff, i. 497, n. 1; Shelburne, Lord, dislikes, iv.

245, 363; pension, ii. 317; on public speaking, ii. 139; Junius, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4; Parliamentary Logick, i. 518; satisfactory coxcomb, describes a, iii. 245, n. 1; 'Single-speech,' i. 489, n, 4; Warton, Dr., letter to, i. 519; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1, 159, n. 3, 344.

See MASON, W. HERTFORD, first Earl of, Cock-lane ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n. 1; Hume, gets a pension for, ii. 317, n. 1; Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 34, n. 4.

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