en pension
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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They take us en pension, for ever so little a day.
From Louisa Pallant by Henry James
And then comes the practical information that you can live at Baabe en pension for four marks a day, and that dinner costs one mark twenty pfennings.
From The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth von Arnim
He knew Vevay well, and as soon as the boat touched the little quay, he hurried along the shore to La Tour, where the Carrols were living en pension.
From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
If they walked for an appetite, they doubtless lived en pension - were contracted for - otherwise their poverty would have made it a rash action.
From Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens
Such people invariably enquired if they could not be taken en pension.
From Above the Snow Line by Clinton Thomas Dent
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