"A captain in the Royal Navy, now on half-pay, sir.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

He could find himself rotting on the beach on half-pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Her father was an officer on half-pay in the British army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

And now he wanted me urgently — me, a mere colonel on half-pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flashman In The Great Game]

Solicitor General, the son of Major James Gray, a half-pay British.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

The object was the contemptible one of robbing him of his half-pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

The son of Major James Gray, a half-pay British Officer, he studied law in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference

Tom is a thirteen year-old whose father is a Naval Officer on the half-pay list.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

If they work as well on half-pay, it diminishes the inducement to give them the other half.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference

His failing health obliged him to retire from active service on the half-pay of a lieutenant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

For this exhibition of temper he was superseded and kept on the half-pay list for some six years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Dorys caught there, it is a celebrated place for pursey half-pay officers to angle in for rich widows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference

As a prolific tale-teller he amused the leisure hours of superannuated sergeants and half-pay subalterns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference

And this active pursuit of knowledge was carried on without any pecuniary assistance beyond his half-pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference

Then came years of political disfavour, half-pay and financial embarrassment, until in an hour of darkness for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

I wish I were a half-pay captain, with a wife and three children, a taste for gardening, and a poney-carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference

A motion was carried by which the half-pay of naval officers was increased by the addition of two shillings a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Members of the liberal professions, half-pay officers, and some others, are exempted from the money qualification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roumania Past and Present] Reference

As soon, however, as peace was proclaimed, he retired on half-pay, and, with his wife and daughter, emigrated to Oceania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis the Pilot] Reference

As a supernumerary he was ordered to a depot, where he would receive lieutenant's half-pay until his services were required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

They should not be degraded with half-pay, and only two or three ways to get a living, just because they were made to be women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

The amount of any half-pay or pension which the applicant may receive from Government, will also be considered as so much capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829] Reference

London, that he became acquainted with the family of Mr Graham, a lieutenant in the navy on half-pay, and the father of two children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference

It contains a "lady," who married a poor half-pay lieutenant, and who now drinks tea that would cost in England twenty shillings the pound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference

So his pension or half-pay allowance was made the very lowest his rank would permit; for these allowances were regulated by the king himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Huntingdon] Reference

The captain wrote to be superseded, and as there was no lack of sharp half-pay skippers looking-out, his request was immediately complied with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Plenty of passengers she had, but only clerks, naboobs, old half-pay fellows, and ladies, not to speak o 'children and nurses, black and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference

Lina's father was a Captain Dale, a half-pay officer, whom I had once seen on business about a pupil of mine who had crossed the Channel under his care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

General Washington also recommended that she be given a soldier's half-pay for life, as a reward for her faithful performance of a man's duty at the battle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

My father was an officer of the royal navy, who found it a hard thing, with an increasing family, to make both ends meet in the mother country on his half-pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

He also served for a time in Portugal, but certain infelicities of temper hindered his advancement, and he never rose higher in the British service than a half-pay major.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference

At the beginning of the Rebellion, Lord Charles was an officer on half-pay in the British service; he quickly joined the insurgent army, and obtained the command of a regiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference

England there are hundreds of widows of half-pay officers -- well-born, well-trained, well-educated women -- who can be hired for money, as was Mrs. General, to play this part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference