benedicite
Example Sentences
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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
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
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
Come, my friends, let us have peace, and say our benedicite.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
