en pension
Britishadverb
Example Sentences
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The French officers in garrison messed, en pension, at our hotel, but their fare, limited by a close economy, was not only meagre, but, with all the accompaniments of the table, absolutely disgusting.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas
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 Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
Two months later he was living en pension at twenty-five lire a week in the attic of a great old mediæval palace close to the Piazza Santa Trinità.
From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William
She knew a few people—strange folk, I thought them—elderly spinsters living en pension at different hotels.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by Moore, George (George Augustus)
They take us en pension, for ever so little a day.
From Louisa Pallant by James, Henry
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