en pension
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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A number of such persons are enumerated as living en pension at the small nunnery of Swyn in Yorkshire.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
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 Douglas, Norman
He had been en pension instead with a dear old professor of chemistry and his family at Puteaux, and used to go in and out.
From The Pool in the Desert by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
She took American girls en pension, and she was supposed to look after us severely; but as she was an American herself, of course she gave us a great deal of liberty.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
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 Arnim, Elizabeth von
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