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Reported on a local online Civil List and posted by Ed Clancy, the U.S.
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The Civil List had its share of postings by concerned residents, some skeptical of the “scare” and its virulence, while others were operating on panic mode.
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Arnold, who had for some years enjoyed a Civil List pension of �0
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The Civil List (which tells you the exact income of every official in Burma) was a source of inexhaustible interest to her.
Burmese Days 2002
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Later, comparative views were demanded of the receipts and expenditures for each year; the receipts under the heads of Loans, Revenue in its various forms, and others in their several divisions; the expenditures, also, to be classified under the heads of Civil List, Foreign
Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII John Austin Stevens
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After 1828 his work appeared but rarely in print, but his _Household Verses_ published in 1845 secured him, on the recommendation of Sir Robert Peel, a Civil List pension of £100 a year,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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In the autumn of 1856 he had conferred on him by the Queen a small Civil List pension.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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You might suggest at the same time that he writes one of his damned leaders and has my Civil List raised — I work hard enough for it, God knows.
Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938
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Punch was the constant champion of the distressed author fallen on evil days, such as Joseph Haydn of the Dictionary of Dates, who was granted a Civil List pension of £25 a year just three weeks before his death in January, 1856, or old Joseph Guy, "the man of many books, the ever-green ` Spelling Book 'among the number."
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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It was his intervention which finally obtained for Keats's sister, Mme. Llanos, a regular Civil List pension in 1880.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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