pension-list

• “A gentle appeal in his journal for less severity was punished by striking the editor from the pension-list, -- a fine of fifteen hundred livres a year.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864

• “He allowed Scarron sixteen hundred livres a year, when Mazarin struck his name from the pension-list, as punishment for a "_Mazarinade_," the only squib of the kind the Cardinal had ever noticed.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864

• “The King cut off the pension-list, sold his plate, and dismissed his servants.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864

• “Zyps, the outlaw, becomes Count Hallooer von Hohenfeldsen -- "Lord of the wild cry of the lofty rock;" and in the old pension-list of the proud house of Hapsburg may still be seen an entry to this effect: that sixteen florins were paid annually to one "Zyps of Zirl.”

  The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

• “As my Lord Grenville has introduced the name of Edmund Burke, suffer me, my Lord, to introduce the name of a man who put this Burke to shame, who drove him off the public stage to seek shelter in the pension-list, and who is now named fifty million times where the name of the pensioned Burke is mentioned once.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers

• “He was much given to gallantry, and his pension-list of beautiful women was not small.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters

• “I am with you (I too am a Colonel and on the pension-list);”

  The Book of Humorous Verse

• “He maintained a pension-list of thirty persons or more for a decade, spent upwards of forty thousand dollars a year, and while the fortune he left for his wife and children was not large, as men count things on 'Change, yet it is ample for their ease and comfort.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

• “It is also to be noted that within this period were embraced all the expenses incident to the disbandment of the Union army, and also a very large addition to the pension-list.”

  Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860

• “Recent experience had shown what the public interest in this kind of amusement might place within reach of its providers; and there came to be discussed the possibility of making permanent such help as had been afforded to fellow writers, by means of an endowment that should not be mere charity, but should combine indeed something of both pension-list and college-lectureship, without the drawbacks of either.”

  The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete

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