"Benny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... than three blocks from Benny's Place, and still undetected, when I passed the window. It was a large, cheerful oblong of light, so quite naturally I stopped to investigate, being slightly phototropic, by virtue of the selenium grids in my rectifier cells. I went over and looked in, unobtrusively resting ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns
... college life is always a resource for small-talk when other subjects fail. The experiences of the military school, the characteristics of friends and classmates there, the qualities of the officers and professors, escapades and larks at Benny Havens' were found to have perennial freshness and interest. Grant evidently enjoyed this, and began to talk more freely. One could see that he did not lack the sense of humor, and he told an anecdote simply but without failing to make its points tell. His voice lacked volume, ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... will go to them. She has no mother. I have no child. As long as I am here and she is here, we are to be reckoned with together. This is what I came here to say. You can repeat it. I will see that Lizzie Pryor and her daughters hear it, and Mrs. Deford and Puss Jenkins and Mr. Benny Brickhouse—" ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher
... Amelius, Anelius, Apelius, Arelius and Avelius, Dannah, Hannah, Jannah and Mannah, Aram, Naram, Saram and Zaram, Benny, Denny, Jenny and Kenny, Albert, Dalbert, Falbert and Salbert, Barlo, Carlo, Marlo and Varlo, Jemuel, Kemuel, Lemuel and Shemuel, Are ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... mathematician, came over from Cambridge, and read us one of his Lowell Institute lectures, on the Ideality of Mathematics. He had a most distinguished presence and an eye, as was said, of black fire. The Harvard undergraduates of my time used to call him Benny Peirce; and on the fly leaves of their mathematical text books they would write, "Who steals my Peirce steals trash." Colonel T. W. Higginson read a single lecture on American literature, from which I carried ...
— Four Americans - Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman • Henry A. Beers
... liver. I haf no liver, und I shall not die. At least I will not die obon dese benny sdeamers dot haf no beer fit to trink. If I should haf died, I will haf don so a hoondert dimes before now—in Shermany, in New York, in Japon, in Assam, und all over der inside bans of South Amerique. Also in Shamaica should I hat died or in Siam, but I am here; und der are my orchits dot I ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... suddenly, "I believe Sarah Jane's coming out here to see 'bout Benny Dick. Let's get behind the door and see ...
— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun
... and perplexed, and yet his disappointment was not so keen as it had been when she had put off their wedding-day the first time, and when she turned a white, despairing face up to him, saying wildly: "Oh, Benny, why don't you give me up and marry some nice young girl?" He only took her in his arms and shut her lips ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... with that awful callous smile, and Josephine followed just as she had that last time, when Constantia had pushed Benny into the round pond. ...
— The Garden Party • Katherine Mansfield
... is almost impossible for them ever to know—how much they do to bring about results,—to educate their brothers and friends, for the work which they perform, whether good or evil. The sisters of Franklin little knew what they were doing for "young Benny," as they called him, while they assisted their mother in taking care of his clothes, in preparing his food, and in ministering to his other physical wants—yes, and to the wants of his mind, too. Who ...
— The Young Woman's Guide • William A. Alcott
... just the same, but I don't, just today," Grace surprised them with answering. "I have an appointment with Brother Benny." ...
— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis
... George Horton, Benny Franklin, and James Odell. The poor mother gave a sigh of disappointment, she had so longed for another girl. When Jim had outgrown babyhood altogether and was nearly five, the ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas |
