Benettle

"Benettle" in a Sentence (5 examples)

As they retraced their benettled footsteps, Mr Truscott's silent rage was such as to obscure even […]

Next to the body let no one gird (or, belt) herself with any kind of belt, except by a confessor's permission, or [let anyone] wear any iron, or haircloth, or hedgehog's skins, or beat herself with them, or with a leaded scourge (i.e., a lead-tipped scourge), with holly or with briars, or bloody herself without [her] confessor's permission, in no place benettle herself (i.e., whip herself with nettles), or beat [herself] in front, or cut any slashes, or take at one time [any bodily] punishments too severe in order to quench temptations.

Where men of ordinary skill, May have the fortune, if they will, To keep in circumstances middling By nothing in the world but piddling ; Hence, with their fancies thus benettled, The future course of life is settled :

It seems for this you felt yourself benettled ; You grieve that all as bad has not been settled.

Sir Geore ^([sic]) benettles the Grand Commander of Iowa for saying that "as Templars we are not judged by any standard or creed " And behold we humbly ask, "Is not Grand Commander correct?

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