benedicite

Example Sentences

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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 Hennessy, W.J.

The Capuchin had taken the same precaution, and followed Peregrine into the room, pronouncing benedicite, and crossing himself with many marks of astonishment.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Thou hast in thee nor agility nor benedicite nor thinkest thou of aught save meat and sleep.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Dear husband, benedicite, Fares every knight thus with his wife as ye?

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing