32 examples of bently in sentences

Certainly you would have picked Mr. Bently Gibson, of The Gibson Woolen Mills, as a model juror.

" Alas, poor Bently!

It was a well-known scene to Bently, a veteran of fifteen years' service.

directed the judge, nodding encouragingly at Bently, well knowing that in him he had a staunch upholder of the law-as-it-is, who could be depended upon to bolster up his weaker or more sentimental brother talesmen into the proper convicting attitude of mind.

They made a quaint and far from unpleasing picture, thought Bently Gibson, the ideal juror, and he wondered what the poor old devil could be up for.

A jury was impaneled, Bently among them; the balance of the panel was excused until two o'clock; the court room was cleared of loafers; the judge perused the indictment with a practised eye; Tom Hingman rose again, wheezed and grinned at the embattled jury; and the mill of justice began to grind.

It was she who found the crack in Bently's moral armor.

For Eleanor his wife was of Irish ancestry and of the colleen type, like Katie; and Bently had always played up to her Irish side when courting her as a humorous short cut to a quasi familiarity, for you may call a girl "acushla" and "Ellin darlint" when otherwise you are fully aware, but for the Irish of it, she would have to be referred to as Miss Dodworth.

Bently was no weakling, but

Bently had told Eleanor that very morning that none of the rogues would get by him, and he had meant it.

Bently was in a recalcitrant and indignant frame of mind against the prosecution long before the defense began.

" "Let's take a vote," suggested Bently.

"Do you gen'l'muns all understand that we're tryin' to convict this feller for doctoring a horse without a prescription?" "You mean a license, don't you?" inquired Bently.

" They took another ballot and found that the juryman who knew Brown had brought over two others to conviction, so that the jury was now evenly divided, Bently voting irresponsibly for acquittal.

When the foreman had counted the ballots Bently was horrified to discover that ten jurors now thought the defendant guilty, and only two believed him innocent.

But how about that business card?" "It seems to me," argued Bently, "that the card plays no particular part in this case.

"Nobody questions Mr. Brown's entire honesty," interposed Bently hastily, in a friendly way.

Gentlemen!" protested Bently.

But a similar expression occupied the features of Mr. Bently Gibson, erstwhile the exponent of the-law-as-it-is, the bulwark of the jury system, now adrift upon the ship of justice, blindly determined that no matter whatlaw or no law, principles or no principlesthat old man was going to be acquitted.

" "How do you know he did?" unexpectedly asked Bently.

"If it wasn't for that" "If it wasn't for that you'd acquit?" demanded Bently sharply.

Sure I would!" "Then I say you should disregard all that conversation because it was a privileged communication between a doctorBrownand his patientLowry!" declared Bently heatedly.

But Bently, with a light upon his countenance such as theretofore had ne'er been seen on sea or land, suddenly held up his hand.

" "Thank you," said Bently, and they all traipsed out.

Then Bently rose.

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