benison

Example Sentences

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Like Malik Solanka of Fury, who fled to America “to receive the benison of being Ellis Islanded,” the Goldens, too, have come seeking rebirth in the land of reinvention.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017

"A Bit of a Tune" revisits Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and its crack-of-dawn encounter with the moon, finding it "a benison and a boon".

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

Touring shows draw small audiences in the hinterlands without the benison of Broadway approval, regional writers do not achieve status until they have run the gamut of Manhattan's cold-eyed critics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not all businessmen regarded the ruling as a benison.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surging onward sweeps the wave, Serried columns of the brave, Banded ’neath the benison Of Freedom’s godlike Washington!

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous