benison

Example Sentences

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Like Malik Solanka of Fury, who fled to America “to receive the benison of being Ellis Islanded,” the Goldens, too, have come seeking rebirth in the land of reinvention.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017

"A Bit of a Tune" revisits Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and its crack-of-dawn encounter with the moon, finding it "a benison and a boon".

From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012

Her great length of shank and neck give a powerful impression of health and muscular strength, and there is a sense of physical well-being conferring a benison on her.

From Time Magazine Archive

It can be both a barrier to success and a goad to accomplishment, a dislocating burden or an enriching benison.

From Time Magazine Archive

None sang like him of knights of old, He England's glory did uphold; In wondrous song he hath arrayed Glorious charge of light brigade, And he hath the people's benison, Greatest of living poets Tennyson.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James