benedicite
Example Sentences
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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
The Dominican, after muttering the benedicite, to which scarcely any one knew how to respond, began to serve the contents.
From The Social Cancer by Charles E. Derbyshire
Who will place A veil between me and the fierce in-throng Of her inexorable benedicite?
From Gloucester Moors and Other Poems by William Vaughn Moody
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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
