Paymaster Sentence Examples

Immured in his castle at Pavia, accumulating wealth by systematic taxation and methodical economy, he organized the mercenary troops who eagerly took service under so good a paymaster; and, by directing their operations from his cabinet, he threatened the whole of Italy with conquest.

As we have a paymaster on board they ask to be paid.

Her efforts to restore it in1526-1528were ineffectual; her prestige had depended upon her reputation for wealth derived from the fact that she had acted in recent years as the paymaster of Europe.

In 1837 he resigned from the army to become his father's private secretary, but in 1846, at the outbreak of the war with Mexico, he was reappointed with the rank of major and paymaster.

In 1837 he went to Ireland as paymaster of civil services, and set himself to the promotion of various measures of reform.

Being a good penman and accountant, he became secretary to Sir John Harrington, paymaster of the English forces in France.

The northern districts were granted by Ali Mahommed to Najib Khan, who gradually extended his influence west of the Ganges and at Delhi, receiving the title of Najib-ud-daula and becoming paymaster of the royal forces.

In 1724 he entered the ministry as secretary of war, but this office he exchanged in 1730 for the more lucrative one of paymaster of the forces.

This he announced to Henry, the paymaster of the Douglases, and the breach between the two kings was never healed.

Canon Bernham was only the paymaster and overlooker to see that men and materials were provided and to pay for them.

He disliked his immediate chief Grenville, one of the Whigs who joined Pitt, and a man of thoroughly Whiggish aristocratic insolence, In 1799 he left the foreign office and was named one of the twelve commissioners for India, and in 1800 joint paymaster of the forces, a post which he held till the retirement of Pitt in 1801.

From 1625 to 1629 Mason was engaged as treasurer and paymaster of the English army in the wars which England was waging against Spain and France.

But he served a master who regarded Louis less as a possible adversary than as a possible paymaster.

Burke was rewarded for services beyond price by being made paymaster of the forces, with the rank of a privy councillor.

From that day Spain became a partthe leader, then the paymaster, then the dupe-of the international monarchical confederation.

The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo) indicated assent.

We need not seek another paymaster; Christ will not be behindhand with us.

From 1916 until 1919 Newman undertook work related to the war, doing various jobs such as army paymaster and schoolmaster.

The red-nosed Captain Timokhin, formerly Dolokhov's squadron commander, but now from lack of officers a battalion commander, shyly entered the shed followed by an adjutant and the regimental paymaster.

Phil Marfleet Israel Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a rebuff to his country 's paymaster, US president Bill Clinton.