Founding Father's nickname

Usage examples of ben.

As often as the condition of her face permits, Ace thought as he followed Ben inside.

Rabbi Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona issued a document labeling Abulafia a dangerous charlatan.

Almost choking, Ben wrenched himself free, and as he staggered back against the partition on which the tin stuff was stacked Alee flung up the counter flap and was on him again.

And it said that the men had beaten its ayah, but that the havildar Ben Allar had sent it down the road to ask its way to the house of the Nawab.

Ali Ben Souq added quietly, managing with a reasonable voice to lower the hostility rising in Amir Bedawi.

But there is a note here that Ben wonders if this would happen over time, threatening a crisis round of global warming, rather than asphyxiation in your living room.

Commander Ben Badr looked up and caught the eye of the Ayatollah, who nodded his assent for the frigate CO to speak.

Ben took a lethal combination of barbiturates, fell into a coma, and died three days later.

HOUSE When Israel had been some twenty years at Tetuan, Naomi being then fourteen years of age, Ben Aboo, the Basha, married a Christian wife.

Ben Aboo, their Basha, was a good, humane man, who was often driven to do that which his soul abhorred.

And with Ben Aboo himself he had fared no better, for the Basha was provoked to anger with him when he heard from Katrina of the good money that he had been casting away in pity for the poor.

Saying this, he made a downward sweep of his open hand over the place where the Basha lay, and Ben Aboo shrank under it as a worm shrinks under a blow.

Ben Bayle arrived first with two cups and a dark green bottle, which he uncorked and then poured for us.

Buck knows about Old Ben, and about where the captain might have gone-or maybe even Beeker and Nightingale.

Old Ben, and about where the captain might have goneor maybe even Beeker and Nightingale.