Half-pay

Half-pay was an especially contentious point, as two New England states had expressly barred their delegates from approving any military pensions.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Half-pay was an especially contentious point, as two New England states had expressly barred their delegates from approving any military pensions.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Half-pay Elie is home for a suit of regimentals; no one would heed him in coloured clothes: half-pay Hulin is haranguing Gardes Françaises in the Place de

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

[Sidenote: Half-pay question.] [Sidenote: Protests.]

Formation of the Union, 1750-1829 Albert Bushnell Hart 1898

Half-pay Elie is home for a suit of regimentals; no one would heed him in coloured clothes: half-pay Hulin is haranguing Gardes Francaises in the Place de Greve.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Haughty implacable remnants of Noblesse struggling with humiliated repentant Barnave-Lameths: struggling in that obscure element of fetchers and carriers, of Half-pay braggarts from the Cafe

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

The reckless, shipwrecked man: flung ashore on the coast of the Maldives long ago, while sailing and soldiering as Indian Fighter; flung ashore since then, as hungry Parisian Pleasure-hunter and Half-pay, on many a Circe Island, with temporary enchantment, temporary conversion into beasthood and hoghood; -- the remote Var Department has now sent him hither.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Valois and Meot the Restaurateur's hear daily gasconade; loud babble of Half-pay Royalists, with or without Poniards; remnants of Aristocrat saloons call the new Ministry Ministere-Sansculotte.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

In another, a person who had the appearance of an Half-pay Officer, with

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

Half-pay officers settle in Upper Canada with great advantages, arising from the circumstance, that their annual pay is always a resource to fill back upon.

Diary in America, Series Two Frederick Marryat 1820