benedicite
Example Sentences
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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)
Sainte Mary, benedicite, How might a man have any adversite That hath a wife? certes I cannot say.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
And here again Chaucer has brought his own experience, though half in jest, as a parallel to the sack of Ilion and Carthage or the burning of Rome— So hideous was the noise, benedicite!
From Chaucer and His England by G. G. Coulton
He obtained an interview with the Pope, very ceremonious; and dined with a French cardinal, where the benedicite and repetitions of grace, very long, were recited antiphonally by two chaplains.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
A pilgrim came from o'er the sea; Benedicite! benedicite!
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
