benedicite
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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 William Carew Hazlitt
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
The cenobite gave him a grim smile, but merely added his benedicite and passed on.
From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
The benedicite of the Druid woods, always appreciated by the few, like Lowell, is coming to be understood by the many.
From Some Winter Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell
I welcome this solemn old brotherhood, which stand gray-bearded, like monks, old, dark, solemn, sighing a certain mournful sound—like a benedicite through the leaves.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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