Lexicographical Neighbors of Beknighted
Literary usage of Beknighted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"I hcv heerd as how he's been beknighted for building a railroad there, but I
don't allow much upon it. There ain't no one but me and Silas left now, ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... if the Papists rise and ! cut our throats, you'll beknighted; it nut, you'll
be hanged. Here's first what you said to Mr. Atkins, and then this ..."
3. Sketches of the Irish Bar by Richard Lalor Sheil, Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1854)
"Carefully pocketing the gold, the beknighted landlord made his best bow, and
said, “As to that, your Excellency, ‘tis all one to me—but ..."
4. Efficiency and Empire by Arnold White (1901)
"Almost everyone is beknighted, and no one can eventually avoid knighthood.
Even the senior clerks in the Foreign Office obtain ..."
5. President Garfield and Education: Hiram College Memorial by Burke Aaron Hinsdale, Hiram college, Hiram, O. (1881)
"... commenced to teach in that part of Ohio which has been called " benighted
Ashta- bula" (I suggest " beknighted" as the proper spelling of the word). ..."
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