benedicite

Example Sentences

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The monks said their benedicite and ate what was set before them.

From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von

For at this foul araye.—So, in the Child of Bristow, an early metrical legend, we read:— "When the burges the child gan se, He seid then, benedicite, Sone, what araye is this?"

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

Who will place A veil between me and the fierce in-throng Of her inexorable benedicite?

From Gloucester Moors and Other Poems by Moody, William Vaughn

It is needless to reproach me with saying grace, without having said benedicite.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

He heard the supper gong sounding: he knew his way to the door well enough; he entered the familiar hall with a benedicite, and without any more words took his place.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace