back pay

Example sentences from the Web for back pay

• I've got that thief Mulvaney's for all my back-pay, an' she'll kick my heart sick wid that blunderin' long shtock av hers.

  Soldier Stories |Rudyard Kipling

• Nearly all the back-pay members contemplate making the round trip with us in case their constituents will allow them a holiday.

  Sketches New and Old, Complete |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

• The correspondence of the back-pay department is itself a burden.

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 |Various