benedicite
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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 Conrad von Bolanden
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
Ulenspiegel replied: “Shall we not say the benedicite before the graces?”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
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
Finally the Count gave the sign to rise, and as we were saying our "benedicite" I saw the Castellanic stealing away, and he did not appear again.
From The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel by Kasimir Dziekonska (translator)
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