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Some of you, thank God! have remembered that your working men were human beings like yourselves—you have helped and befriended the sick and the poor, you have pensioned the closing years of faithful men.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
The good folk have to maintain many worse parasites than me!—By the way, talking of parasites, is it true that you have pensioned off all your lords-in-waiting and their hangers-on?
From Three Dramas by R. Farquharson (Robert Farquharson) Sharp
You will do no good," said Miss Reinhart to my father, "until you have pensioned that old housekeeper off.
From My Mother's Rival Everyday Life Library No. 4 by Charlotte M. Brame
They would have pensioned me to hush scandal—eh!
From Two Men of Sandy Bar; a drama by Bret Harte
Metastasio belongs to the old regime you have pensioned off; Calzabigi and Gluck are children of our new Austria.
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
