"Pensionary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... want of money through the expensive scandals of his court. There were half a dozen ducal titles needing to be provided with ducal incomes, and obliging the king to become a dependent pensionary of the liberal paymaster in France. At his death all this was changed, and Catharine Sedley disappeared from Whitehall. It is true that her absence was not prolonged, and that she had obscurer rivals. But a decorous economy was observed ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... escaped, and crossed its surface cheerfully and merrily. On its shores are situated the beautiful ladies' pensionary, Wadstena, and the celebrated mountain Omberg, at whose foot a ...
— Visit to Iceland - and the Scandinavian North • Ida Pfeiffer |
