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.
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Gramont had obtained a small apartment en pension—a quiet and severely retired house in Burgundy Street, maintained by a very proud old lady whose ancestors had come out of Canada with the Sieur d'Iberville.
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In September 1866 Herbert Spencer settled himself in London, en pension at 37 Queen's Gardens, Lancaster Gate, which remained his home for over a score of years.
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Quote to him hotels abroad, such as we all know, where guests are taken in en pension, and fed fairly well, at from six to nine francs a day, or put it at 5s. to 7s. 6d. to simplify matters, and, while it is plain that he does not really believe you, he will bring up again the same old argument.
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His father put him en pension with a Calvinist minister, to be re-made a protestant, no matter of what sort.
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