benedicite

Example Sentences

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"Who clappeth?" said this wife; "benedicite, God save you, Sir, what is your sweete will?"

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

Good-day, Brother Bulpett, here be two young kinsmen of Master Birkenholt to visit him; and so benedicite, fair sirs. 

From The Armourer's Prentices by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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 Pope, Alexander

Ulenspiegel replied: “Shall we not say the benedicite before the graces?”

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de

Thou hast in thee nor agility nor benedicite nor thinkest thou of aught save meat and sleep.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir