blest

Example Sentences

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“All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.”

From New York Times

When Lord Grosvenor raised a cup carved from Shakespeare’s mulberry tree, treating the “blest relic” as if it were a chalice filled with Communion wine, the eyebrows of the more puritan present were raised high.

From New York Times

“Protection she shall find in me. In me, be ever blest.”

From Washington Post

It is “twice blest; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

From New York Times

“It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven/Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:/It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”

From Washington Post