In 1838 she signed a contract as a pensionnaire at the most prestigious institution of the French stage, the Comédie Française, the official state theater where Samson himself was an actor. ❋ Unknown (2009)
J'y avais été pensionnaire au début des années cinquante! ❋ Oleg Kuzin (2006)
Aurelia and Adele were in the first division of the second class; the second division was headed by a pensionnaire named ❋ Unknown (2006)
Milly proceeds to an admirable French school, as a pensionnaire, and leaves this on Thursday next. ❋ Unknown (2003)
“Mademoiselle, you know little of me; I can be embarrassed as a petite pensionnaire; there is a fund of modesty and diffidence in my nature —” ❋ Unknown (2003)
“Pardon, Mademoiselle,” said a pensionnaire, entering gently; and having taken from her desk some necessary book or paper, she withdrew on tip-toe, murmuring as she passed me, ❋ Unknown (2003)
A pensionnaire, to whom I had rendered some little service, exclaimed one day as she sat beside me: “Mademoiselle, what a pity you are a Protestant!” ❋ Unknown (2003)
'There is a French pensionnaire staying here, the same as I am. ❋ Forbes Robinson (N/A)
She was immediately admitted _pensionnaire_, and at the end of eighteen months unanimously elected _sociétaire_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Before her death his mother had placed him in the second Cadet Corps as a "pensionnaire." ❋ Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1904)
Her old helper the priest for some time absolutely declines to admit the notion of Climal's rascality; but fortunately a charitable lady is more favourable, and Marianne gets taken in as a _pensionnaire_ at a convent. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
It had been necessary to warn the lady that in the case of such a pensionnaire as ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
He was a particularly noisy _pensionnaire_, and shied his boots into every corner of the room before they were posed to his satisfaction. ❋ Unknown (1881)
As soon as that was arranged to my satisfaction, the other _pensionnaire_ came in, and with him the battle was fought with only half success, for he peremptorily closed one side of the window. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Parmi tous ces diablotins ébouriffés que je promenais deux fois par semaine dans la ville, il y en avait un surtout, un demi-pensionnaire, qui me désespérait par sa laideur et sa mauvaise tenue. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)
The two gentlemen looked at one another, and Chateauneuf said, "Do I understand her Royal Highness that she does not come as the pensionnaire from Soissons, as the Queen had recommended?" ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
She was a Hamilton who had been a pensionnaire in the convent at Soissons, and she knew that it had been expected that an infant from Lochleven might be sent to the Abbess, but that it had never come, and that after many months of waiting, tidings had arrived that the vessel which carried the babe had been lost at sea. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
She took her little girl with her to be a pensionnaire at the Visitation, and entrusted her boy to me, to be brought up with mine. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
'Only poor old Mother Therese, who was a little pensionnaire when they came, and now is blind, and never quits her bed. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
