Backbite

It seems just like yesterday that I was finishing up my last exams while at the same time playing Sir Benjamin Backbite in The School for Scandal.

On This Date 2009

Backbite thinking to curry favor with the King by this piece of vulgarity, his Majesty fetched him a knock on the nose and a buffet on the ear, which, I warrant me, wakened Master Roger; to whom the

Burlesques 2006

Roger de Backbite was forced to come in attendance upon the sovereign, but took care to keep in the rear of his august master, and to shelter behind his huge triangular shield as much as possible.

Burlesques 2006

Backbite, and a scandalous college at Newport, in New York,

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

The first thing old Backbite said when he heard of it was, 'H'm! been drinking, I suppose.'

Marion's Faith. Charles King 1888

Alderley, was nicknamed Ben, after "Sir Benjamin Backbite."

The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

Backbite not, lest other men bit thy back; * Who saith aught, the same shall to him be addrest:

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Roger de Backbite was forced to come in attendance upon the sovereign, but took care to keep in the rear of his august master, and to shelter behind his huge triangular shield as much as possible.

Rebecca and Rowena; a romance upon romance 1850

Backbite thinking to curry favor with the King by this piece of vulgarity, his Majesty fetched him a knock on the nose and a buffet on the ear, which, I warrant me, wakened Master Roger; to whom the

Rebecca and Rowena; a romance upon romance 1850

Backbite was forced to come in attendance upon the sovereign, but took care to keep in the rear of his august master, and to shelter behind his huge triangular shield as much as possible.

Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837