benjamin

• He dragged a heavy buff benjamin out from under the box and handed it to Duncan. —  The Last Gamble
• Whether it's a $1, a $5 or $100, that's a benjamin -- you knew that. —  CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2006
• However, in general, prudent, cautious people did enter into some measures for airing and sweetening their houses, and burned perfumes, incense, benjamin, rozin, and sulphur in their rooms close shut up, and then let the air carry it all out with a blast of gunpowder; others caused large fires to be made all day and all night for several days and nights; by the same token that two or three were pleased to set their houses on fire, and so effectually sweetened them by burning them down to the ground; as particularly one at Ratcliff, one in Holbourn, and one at Westminster; besides two or three that were set on fire, but the fire was happily got out again before it went far enough to bum down the houses; and one citizen's servant, I think it was in Thames Street, carried so much gunpowder into his master's house, for clearing it of the infection, and managed it so foolishly, that he blew up part of the roof of the house. —  A Journal Of The Plague Year
• * benjamin (n = bw@compsoc. sunion.warwick.ac.uk) has left #boycottnovell tessier_ schestowitz: What do you think of Nexenta? —  Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]
• These days, I’m quite aware that benjamin* refers to a US $100 note, because of the portrait of former president and inventor Benjamin Franklin.

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