A wizened little clerk, verging upon superannuation, had beguiled my time of waiting with talk of the war: how his wife from Picardy had lost fifteen of her parents, while of four painters and paper-hangers who had started doing up his flat on the 2nd of July only one-disabled-had returned to finish the job; the rest were dead.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan
The men who think of superannuation at sixty are those whose lives have been idle, not they who have really buckled themselves to work.
"Castle Richmond"
Anthony Trollope
Although the closing of the cheese lofts and the superannuation of the churn has reduced the number of female servants in the house, yet that is more than balanced by the extra work without.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies