en pension
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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Several quiet Frenchmen, who had offices in the neighbourhood, were "en pension" at the Hôtel de l'Horloge, and as the two friends came in many were the steady, speculative glances cast in their direction.
From The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes
It is customary here not to live en pension or to pay a fixed price for any meal, the smallest item, down to a piece of bread, being conscientiously marked against you.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
They take us en pension, for ever so little a day.
From Louisa Pallant by Henry James
The portions given to the guests at the minor hotels, where one lives en pension at so much per diem, are carefully measured for individual consumption.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
From the hotels below, where the crowds of cosmopolis stayed en pension at reasonable and unreasonable terms, the sound of music and songs visited me in the evening.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
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