benedicite
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 William Carew Hazlitt
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 G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
The Dominican, after muttering the benedicite, to which scarcely any one knew how to respond, began to serve the contents.
From The Social Cancer by Charles E. Derbyshire
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
