out-pensioner

A marriage is on the _tapis_ between Mr. John Smith, the distinguished toll-collector at the Marsh Gate, and Miss Julia Belinda Snooks, the lovely and accomplished daughter of the gallant out-pensioner of Greenwich

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

Tom Trivett entered the navy, and having lost a leg, became an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital.

Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

It fell upon a smart young fellow enough; and as he made it a preliminary condition that Mrs Jiniwin should be thenceforth an out-pensioner, they lived together after marriage with no more than the average amount of quarrelling, and led a merry life upon the dead dwarf's money.

The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

He might, if he had pleased, have lived as an out-pensioner with my mother; but this he would not do.

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

He might, if he had pleased, have lived as an out-pensioner with my mother; but this he would not do.

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

It fell upon a smart young fellow enough; and as he made it a preliminary condition that Mrs. Jiniwin should be thenceforth an out-pensioner, they lived together after marriage with no more than the average amount of quarrelling, and led a merry life upon the dead dwarf's money.

Old Curiosity Shop 1800

Lord Annandale (651) is at last mad in all the forms: he has long been an out-pensioner of Bedlam College.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757

At present, matters are patching up by the mediation of my brother, but I think can never go on: she married him extremely against her will, and he is at least an out-pensioner of Bedlam: his mother's family have many of them been mad.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757