N.B. An abbreviation for the Latin phrase nota bene, meaning “note well.    From Wordnik.com.  [N.B] Reference

Cambridge on seeing a 'bene' at the foot of a Latin exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Classic of the Sea] Reference

Maunde of this morte what bene pecke is in her ken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Englishe tongue, neither bene they Englyshe wordes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes] Reference

And there hath bene marked inespecially thre kyndes of endightynge.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes] Reference

As it hath bene diuerse times acted at the Red Bull, by the Queene's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Earle, his secret flyght, and all the whole as before hath bene declared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

"bene vixit qui bene latuit" should seem the motto of the bulk of the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference

Haec ego discedens, sicut bene multa meorum, ipse mea posui maestus in igne manu.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference

All of these things fall short of doing what could bene fi t this whole situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: Facing the Oil: Women of the Louisiana Delta Nourish Hearts and Souls] Reference

To bee shorte, the matter came to suche desolation, as it might rather haue bene called.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

Printe within these fewe monethes, than haue bene sene in England many score yeare before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

For it might haue bene that I should haue remained quiet by the losse of some of my people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

And hauing made an ende of her prayer, shee remained vnmoueable as if shee had bene in a traunce.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

Princes, and greate lordes, who notwithstanding their force, wisedome, or riches, haue bene tributarie to loue?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

But, I digress (nota bene: if you can sneak in for Robert Duvall's soliloquy at the very end ... it is worth it).    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Jones: Johannes Cabal: The Detective] Reference

And I answered, 46 and sayd: This is my word the first and the last, that it had bene better not to geue the earth to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

And thus at length I was dismissed with great honour and speciall countenance, such as hath not ordinarily bene shewed to other.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

“What other thing (saide Panthea) but to indeuour your selfe, to bee suche a trustie frende to him, as he hath bene to you.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

Couldst thou not make them that haue bene, and that are, and that shal be, at once, that thou mayst shew thy iudgement the quicker?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

But fearing that he should lose their fauour, he kept his loue secret, wherby he was worse tormented, then if it had bene openly knowen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

For neuer through any assaut of fortune (the sharpenesse wherof I haue often felt) haue I bene vanquished with so great disquiet, as nowe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference