Lexicographical Neighbors of Benets
Literary usage of Benets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Basset: A Village Chronicle by Stephen G. Tallentyre (1910)
"The benets' Maggie, a short- sleeved, short-frocked creature from the dame-school,
sang louder and more cheerily over her kitchen dish-washings than anybody ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1880)
"Its predecessor, “on the east side of St. benets Hill,” was burnt in the great
fire of 1666. The estimate for the re-building wa.s no more than 5,0001.; ..."
3. The Social State of the Southern and Eastern Counties of Ireland in the by Herbert Francis Hore, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, James Graves (1870)
"Midleton was afterwards outlawed; and from the Exchequer Records it appears that
the rectory of benets- bridge, " Rectoria de ..."
4. Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour by James Edwin Thorold Rogers (1906)
"Shall we say that the English nation was represented by the benets, the Osbornes,
the Maitlands, the Spencers, the Finches, the Churchills, ..."
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