Careful Words

bench (n.)

bench (v.)

Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,

And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.

Colley Cibber (1671-1757):

A little bench of heedless bishops here,

And there a chancellor in embryo.

William Shenstone (1714-1763): The Schoolmistress. Stanza 28.