benedicite

Example Sentences

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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 James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Prior Aymer, therefore, and his character, were well known to our Saxon serfs, who made their rude obeisance, and received his "benedicite, mes filz," in return.

From Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, Sir

The King, awaking at peep of day, called to mind the vision of the night, and returning thanks to the Almighty, made his orisons and kneeling invoked a benedicite.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Pietro pretended to consent, and began, to utter, by way of preface, the word "benedicite."

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

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 Hazlitt, William Carew