He had shewed Drayton some singular marks of his favour, and seems to have admitted him as one of his poetical pensioners, but dying before the book was finished, he lost the benefit of his patronage.

He was also greatly struck with Greenwich Hospital, which looked to him like a royal palace (as it was originally), and he greatly wondered that the old seedy and frowsy pensioners should be lodged so magnificently.

One is charmed with the opulence which feeds so many pensioners.

The Chaus Bassa, Captaine of the Pensioners, one hundred and twentie aspers the day, and amounteth to by the yeere in sterling money, two hundred, threescore and two pounds, sixteene shillings.

The Chausi Pensioners, foure hundred and fourtie, at thirtie aspers, twenty eight thousand, nine hundred and eight pounds.

To the Captaine of the pensioners 10. thousand ducats.

He has perfected a very excellent system in Ireland by which all the 30,000 pensioners are divided into districts, in each of which is a chief constable who pays them.

He died so poor, that he was buried at the public charge, and left a couple of daughters as out-door pensioners upon public charity.

The operation of the laws relating to the Revolutionary pensioners may deserve the renewed consideration of Congress.

The present law will expire by its own limitation on the 4th day of the next month, and, sensible of the suffering which would be experienced by the pensioners from its suspension, I have deemed it my duty to bring the subject to your notice and invite your early attention to it.

the Earl of Leicester, Captain of the Band of Pensioners, President of the Antiquarian Society, and F.R.S. The Right Hon.

The details of such a plan could be so regulated as to interpose the necessary checks without any burdensome operation upon the pensioners.

Thus free to carry out its pledges, it passed the McKinley Tariff Act (1890); a new pension bill, which raised the number of pensioners to 970,000, and the sum annually spent on pensions from $106,000,000 to $150,000,000; and a new financial measure, known as %549.

As the state was involved in more expenditure than in the past owing to the large number of Mongols who were its virtual pensioners, the taxes had to be continually increased.

For garrison they only had about thirty-five boys and pensioners, 'whereof not twenty fit to hold a firelock,' and, for want of a sufficient garrison, it was necessary to withdraw from the Trankers, which were thought to be so important for the safety of the place.

Divide the money, please, among two or three of your most deserving pensioners; or, if you see fit, give it all to one.

51, n. 1; parents, behaviour to his, i. 339, n. 3; parodied by I.H. Browne, ii. 339, n. 1; parsimony, i. 143, n. 1; Pastorals, ii. 84; Patriot King, clandestinely printed copies of the, i. 329, n. 3; pensioners, satirises, i. 375; Philips, Ambrose, attacks, i. 179, n. 4; pleasure in writing, iv.

The Greenwich pensioners.

The Greenwich pensioners.

They are the oldest left in the land; and, like the Revolutionary pensioners, they are fast disappearing.

The pensioners, two and two, each band headed by a man, march orderly to their seats, and sing the whole service, which I confess was not a little tedious.

He did not take those methods of retrieving his interest, which were most likely to succeed, for he went one day to Sir Robert Walpole's levee, and demanded the reason of the distinction that was made between him and the other pensioners of the Queen, with a degree of roughness which, perhaps, determined him to withdraw, what had only been delayed.

The woodwork of the Great Hall, where the pensioners still dine every day, is very rich, the fluted columns with Corinthian capitals, the interlaced strap work, and other details of carved oak, are characteristic of the best sixteenth century woodwork in England; the shield bears the date of 1571.

We run quietly down-stairs, and out into as August a morning as God ever gave his poor pensioners.

Without exception, all these writers wrote in the pallid white prose of pensioners of a monastery, in a flowing movement of phrase which no astringent could counterbalance.