benedicite
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And here again Chaucer has brought his own experience, though half in jest, as a parallel to the sack of Ilion and Carthage or the burning of Rome— So hideous was the noise, benedicite!
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
Finally the Count gave the sign to rise, and as we were saying our "benedicite" I saw the Castellanic stealing away, and he did not appear again.
From The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Kasimir Dziekonska (translator)
"Who clappeth?" said this wife; "benedicite, God save you, Sir, what is your sweete will?"
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
Good-day, Brother Bulpett, here be two young kinsmen of Master Birkenholt to visit him; and so benedicite, fair sirs.
From The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Good-day, Brother Bulpett, here be two young kinsmen of Master Birkenholt to visit him; and so benedicite, fair sirs.
From The Armourer's Prentices by W.J. Hennessy
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