Example Sentences

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Yet displaced and unpensioned, and sometimes the object of hostile attack, his literary supremacy was more absolute than ever.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

And I not strip the gilding off a knave, Unplaced, unpensioned, no man’s heir, or slave?

From An Essay on Man by Morley, Henry

And it wrung her heart to think of the Squire's old servants thrust out in their old age, unpensioned, uncared for.

From Vixen, Volume II. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

I think that, had Johnson unpensioned been asked by the Ministry to write these pamphlets, he would have written them.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

That and the story of an unpensioned Union veteran and the insistence on the word "son" seemed to me to set this story off as a little out of the ordinary.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration