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  • Mr. Stone had pronounced the benediction and was on his way to the front door when she went down the aisle to corner Herbert, who had remained behind to shut the windows.†   (source)
  • Thousands of voices repeated the benediction; thousands of men prostrated themselves like trees before a tempest.†   (source)
  • Vic spoke it over Tad's bed every night like a benediction as Tad lay there naked under a single sheet in the sweltering dark.†   (source)
  • ' I stared at Brendan, trying to find some words' any words'to express the terror of those minutes, the horror of his violation, the humiliation at his benediction.†   (source)
  • He smiled and waved one hand in a vague benediction.†   (source)
  • OCTOBER 22, 1962 The club was in West Hollywood, called the Troubadour, and the man walked onto the stage and unscrewed the mike from the stand and waved it over the crowd, blessing them, and maybe they felt they needed a benediction, tonight of all nights, because the President had addressed the nation about six hours earlier, four o'clock Pacific time, on a matter of the highest national urgency.†   (source)
  • Reverend Waite reads a benediction and we're dismissed for dinner.†   (source)
  • A benediction.†   (source)
  • Father Antonio took the first envelope with a sigh and sketched the sign of benediction with his hands, but Esteban had already turned to leave.†   (source)
  • He was a Shadowhunter; he had died in battle; he deserved the last benediction.†   (source)
  • I left my hand on her forehead for a moment, a benediction.†   (source)
  • One by one, the boys handed Padre Esteban their gloves and each one received this special benediction.†   (source)
  • The women and the very old would take turns sitting up with the dead, because to leave them alone would be disrespectful, and because the very oldest ones still believed that the soul lingered until the final benediction, until the first handful of dirt, and Satan might fly in through a window and snatch it away if someone didn't watch close.†   (source)
  • "Front desk," he intoned, as if giving a benediction.†   (source)
  • The Reverend John Shaw reported the progress being made under his tutelage and offered a benediction for John Adams: "May Heaven reward him for the sacrifices he has made, and for the extensive good he has done to his country."†   (source)
  • They could not afford the refined, muted benediction of the more prosperous blacks who went to Sinai Baptist on the northern end of the city, and because each of their requests for comfort was so pressing, they took no chances that He did not hear them.†   (source)
  • And at that moment, even Fox, the worst of them all, the most cowardly and the most damaged by the system, would approach me and, with the benediction of history and tradition, call me his brother, his friend and comrade.†   (source)
  • There was Prusias, the king, standing to issue some sort of tribute or benediction.†   (source)
  • To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction.†   (source)
  • Berger had raised his arms in the familiar gesture of confusion and benediction: "Listen, you're my prize pupil, you know that?†   (source)
  • She made an adjustment and the static vanished, replaced by a far faint chorus of horns and trumpets, exultant, victorious, Handelian: a shiver flowed down Sophie's backbone like a benediction of ice.†   (source)
  • We had lived on fruit and water for two days and I was ravenously hungry, but I forgot this as I regarded the wide, sloping tiger beach with its sudden twists and rises of coral, orange, pink, and red, and its abrupt caches of shells, driftwood, and small polished stones; and the sea beyond: rising and falling, splashing softly, all gold and blue and royal purple, and casting forth its lifesong breezes like benedictions beneath dawn's violet skies.†   (source)
  • I take my hat off to them, I go down on my knees to them and ask their benediction.†   (source)
  • They had a tendency to kiss even homely children, but the nun shook her hand vigorously and even cracked her knuckles a little and said they must come to the chapel, that benediction was just beginning.†   (source)
  • There hastening in the wilderness on his flying horse he gave the night's torch-lit crowd a premature benediction, he could not wait.†   (source)
  • "Now let's begin our Morning Benediction.†   (source)
  • When they were settled, she spread her hands over them, as if in benediction.†   (source)
  • Lifting his hand, as if in benediction, Eragon whispered, "Slytha."†   (source)
  • Without the grace of Almighty God, with only Satan's benediction!'†   (source)
  • Turning, Astaroth raised a white hand and made a motion as though giving a modified benediction.†   (source)
  • I am sure they would appreciate whatever protection the benediction of a Dragon Rider may convey.†   (source)
  • Whenever we struck a bump, my teeth rattled, and so did the religious claptrap dangling from the rear view mirror: medallions, a curved sword in miniature dancing on a plastic chain, and a turbaned, bearded guru who gazed into the back seat with piercing eyes, palm raised in benediction.†   (source)
  • It flowed between the kneeling Bikura, and when it extended four long arms, hands extended but fingers clicking into place like chrome scalpels, I was absurdly reminded of His Holiness on Pacem offering a benediction to the faithful.†   (source)
  • Nasuada tossed her hair back and recited: "He is pleased that you are doing well, but he cautions you against actions like your benediction yesterday.†   (source)
  • There is Benediction and hymn singing in English, Irish and Latin and best of all the big powerful sermon Redemptorist priests are famous for.†   (source)
  • He pronounced a hasty benediction: "Heavenly Father please make me a powerful instrument of Thy perfect will here in the Belgian Congo.†   (source)
  • The rector was not on the steps to shake their hands because so many of the congregation had followed our triumphant exit, leaving the Rev. Mr. Wiggin stranded at the altar with his benediction unsaid—he was supposed to have delivered his benediction from the nave, where the recessional should have led him (and not us).†   (source)
  • The prefect and his assistant take the attendance and keep an eye on us so that they can give us a thump on the head in case we laugh during Benediction or commit any other sacrileges.†   (source)
  • In his khakis and rolled-up white shirt sleeves he looked like a working man, but he raised up one hand above his head the way he does in church to pronounce the benediction.†   (source)
  • The windwagon's sails and lines and weathered planks glowed in the brief benediction of light in the few minutes before the sun was blocked by the ceiling of clouds and color flowed out of the world once again.†   (source)
  • The effect of it wasn't very dignified, so Father retreated back to his pulpit made of wired-together palm fronds and raised up one hand, intending I guess to pronounce the benediction.†   (source)
  • …decked out in my red and white robes like my pal Jimmy Clark, answering the priest in Latin, moving the big book from one side of the tabernacle to the other, pouring water and wine into the chalice, pouring water over the priest's hands, ringing the bell at Consecration, kneeling, bowing, swinging the censer at Benediction, sitting off to the side with the palms of my hands on my knees all serious while he gives his sermon, everyone in St. Joseph's looking at me and admiring my ways.†   (source)
  • He had a priestly black suit made for him in Hong Kong complete with an Anglican benediction sewn into the collar under the name of a Savile Row tailor.†   (source)
  • Archie gave the woman's head a last prod with his hook, a violent benediction, and she slipped below the filth and muck of the mighty Thames.†   (source)
  • After they had received the canon's benediction, they quietly prayed, "We thank you, Dark Virgin, and offer to you our thirteen victories."†   (source)
  • Brendan Patrick Pierre Prefontaine watched as the two splendid coffins provided by the generous owner of Tranquility Inn were lowered into the ground along with the absolutely incomprehensible blessings of the native priest, who no doubt usually had the neck of a dead chicken in his mouth while intoning his benediction in voodoo language.†   (source)
  • A benediction.†   (source)
  • "And may the blessing of God Almighty be bestowed on this marriage and all its connections and effects," wrote Adams in benediction.†   (source)
  • At his desk the next morning, on a plain sheet of paper, which he headed, "President's House, Washington City, Nov. 2, 1800," he wrote to Abigail a letter in which he offered a simple benediction: I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit.†   (source)
  • As he had privately for the President's House, he now publicly offered a benediction for the Capitol, the Federal District, and the City of Washington: It would be unbecoming the representatives of this nation to assemble for the first time in this solemn temple without looking up to the Supreme Ruler of the universe, and imploring his blessing.†   (source)
  • They had died "amid the hosannas and grateful benedictions of a numerous, happy, and joyful people," and on the nation's fiftieth birthday, which, said Daniel Webster in a speech in Boston, was "proof" from on high "that our country, and its benefactors, are objects of His care."†   (source)
  • He thought upon the days of his recent ministry, when he had sought to graft the teachings of Gotama upon the stock of the religion by which the world was ruled, He thought upon the strange one, Sugata, whose hands had held both death and benediction.†   (source)
  • Bluffton is sleepy, magisterially silent, and enjoys a benediction of flowers every brilliant spring.†   (source)
  • Zeke drove her to Georgia after a madcap courtship, married her with the benediction of an itchy-palmed justice of the peace, and returned to Bluffton to begin the second act of his life in completely new surroundings.†   (source)
  • Because today I pronounce the benediction.†   (source)
  • Larson might have been standing in church, waiting for the benediction, for all his face showed.†   (source)
  • He finished in the tone of a benediction, and Al reddened a little with pleasure.†   (source)
  • Paneloux went up to the bed and made the sign of benediction.†   (source)
  • He said, 'In Mexico City now they are saying Benediction.†   (source)
  • He held up two large, white, glistening episcopal fingers as in benediction.†   (source)
  • He gave benediction to the words in which he had so happily defined his position as wage-earner.†   (source)
  • The last rays of the setting sun poured in a golden shaft down through the western windows, falling for a moment, in a cloud of glory, as if in benediction, on Mainwaring's tired face.†   (source)
  • The evening benediction begins.†   (source)
  • I sat there and listened to his voice and told myself 'Why, he is mad He will decree this marriage for tonight and perform his own ceremony, himself both groom and minister; pronounce his own wild benediction on it with the very bedward candle in his hand… and I mad too, for I will acquiesce, succumb; abet him and plunge down.'†   (source)
  • …which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except the Faith, and later liked to attend benediction in the chapel of Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; he loved forgotten scandals in high life and was an expert in putative parentage; he claimed to love the…†   (source)
  • He made it sound like a benediction.†   (source)
  • My mind was puttering with small thoughts as we walked, thoughts about the people rocking on the porches and the funny way the wind in the trees made restless shifting shadows on the road, when Jack said, "Angie, we don't have to meet Fitz and Margie at the movie till a quarter-past eight, and if we walk just a little faster we'll be in time to stop in at church for Benediction on the way.†   (source)
  • Father Vaillant caught up his two valises himself, the chamberlain not being there at the moment, and thus laden, was bowing himself backward out of the presence, when the Pope rose from his chair and lifted his hand, not in benediction but in salutation, and called out to the departing missionary, as one man to another, "Coraggio, Americano!"†   (source)
  • As for the Latin, it was talked at such a speed that the rafters rang with genitive plurals—and there was such a prelatical issuing of admonitions, exhortations and benedictions that it was a wonder the whole congregation did not go to heaven on the spot Even the Pope, who was as keen as anybody that the thing should go with a swing, had kindly sent a number of indulgences for everybody he could think of.†   (source)
  • She could see the white house gleaming welcome to her through the reddening autumn leaves, feel the quiet hush of the country twilight coming down over her like a benediction, feel the dews falling on the acres of green bushes starred with fleecy white, see the raw color of the red earth and the dismal dark beauty of the pines on the rolling hills.†   (source)
  • It had seemed quite simple once, preaching at Benediction, organizing the guilds, having coffee with elderly ladies behind barred windows, blessing new houses with a little incense, wearing black gloves… It was as easy as saving money: now it was a mystery.†   (source)
  • The other hand was lifted in benediction, it was poised clumsily upon the ball of one phthisic foot, and its stupid white face wore a smile of soft stone idiocy.†   (source)
  • The nights descended on her like a benediction.†   (source)
  • I knew Mr. Henry Drummond, and the memory of his strong, warm hand-clasp is like a benediction.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wolfshiem raised his hand in a sort of benediction.†   (source)
  • We must have the benediction and announcement.†   (source)
  • And, with this pathetic benediction, the assembly dispersed.†   (source)
  • Nothing special happened at the ceremony of benediction with the holy picture.†   (source)
  • I shall feel the benediction of the good God when Cosette is here.†   (source)
  • No more theses, no more glosses upon the fingers or upon benedictions, hey?†   (source)
  • But can the trousseau and the benediction and all that—can it spoil my happiness?†   (source)
  • The benediction and announcement can take place now.†   (source)
  • Tomorrow; If you ask me, I should say, the benediction today and the wedding tomorrow.†   (source)
  • It had been a call to the blood and to the relaxed will, a passing benediction whose influence did not pass, a holiness, a spell, a momentary chalice for youth.†   (source)
  • That must have been a terrible sin, to go in there quietly at night, to open the dark press and steal the flashing gold thing into which God was put on the altar in the middle of flowers and candles at benediction while the incense went up in clouds at both sides as the fellow swung the censer and Dominic Kelly sang the first part by himself in the choir.†   (source)
  • …thought; and then there came across him as in a flash the memory of the incidents at the Pavlofsk station, and at the other station in the morning; and the question asked him by Rogojin about THE EYES and Rogojin's cross, that he was even now wearing; and the benediction of Rogojin's mother; and his embrace on the darkened staircase—that last supreme renunciation—and now, to find himself full of this new "idea," staring into shop-windows, and looking round for things—how base he was!†   (source)
  • For this cause I send these lines—to your fair ear addressed— By a holy man, discreet, intelligent: It is our will that you receive from him, In your own house, the marriage (She turns the page): benediction Straightway, this night.†   (source)
  • "There's Benediction over!†   (source)
  • The ring was on her hand, the Bishop's benediction had been given, the bridesmaids were a-poise to resume their place in the procession, and the organ was showing preliminary symptoms of breaking out into the Mendelssohn March, without which no newly-wedded couple had ever emerged upon New York.†   (source)
  • Now it is understood that he has composed an original speech of congratulation and benediction, and this is one of the events of the day.†   (source)
  • Being inarticulate, it was dubious in significance further than it seemed to indicate some capricious revulsion of thought or feeling such as mobs ashore are liable to, in the present instance possibly implying a sullen revocation on the men's part of their involuntary echoing of Billy's benediction.†   (source)
  • But when the sky chooses, glory can rain into the Chandrapore bazaars or a benediction pass from horizon to horizon.†   (source)
  • Birds sang around Green Gables; the Madonna lilies in the garden sent out whiffs of perfume that entered in on viewless winds at every door and window, and wandered through halls and rooms like spirits of benediction.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER IV THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.†   (source)
  • Cornelius himself Brown had let go at the beginning of the shooting, with a kick for a parting benediction.†   (source)
  • The track curved and now it was going away from the sun, which as it sank lower, seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath.†   (source)
  • …the point of a blade of grass, while the pigeons that had alighted upon it had the appearance of ancient sculptures which the gardener's pick had heaved to the surface of a hallowed soil, I stood with my eyes fixed on the horizon, expecting at every moment to see appear the form of Gilberte following that of her governess, behind the statue that seemed to be holding out the child, which it had in its arms, and which glistened in the stream of light, to receive benediction from the sun.†   (source)
  • At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.†   (source)
  • She liked the delicious hint of fragrance, as some aerial benediction, above her every time she moved.†   (source)
  • Syllables so unanticipated coming from one with the ignominious hemp about his neck—a conventional felon's benediction directed aft towards the quarters of honor; syllables too delivered in the clear melody of a singing-bird on the point of launching from the twig, had a phenomenal effect, not unenhanced by the rare personal beauty of the young sailor spiritualized now thro' late experiences so poignantly profound.†   (source)
  • The music, the scent of the lilies on the altar, the vision of the cloud of tulle and orange-blossoms floating nearer and nearer, the sight of Mrs. Archer's face suddenly convulsed with happy sobs, the low benedictory murmur of the Rector's voice, the ordered evolutions of the eight pink bridesmaids and the eight black ushers: all these sights, sounds and sensations, so familiar in themselves, so unutterably strange and meaningless in his new relation to them, were confusedly mingled…†   (source)
  • It was a genuine relief to the whole congregation when the ordeal was over and the benediction pronounced.†   (source)
  • Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute but like a priest's benediction, approached the general.†   (source)
  • When Malluch after the customary benediction given and received was gone, Simonides took a deep draught of milk, and seemed refreshed and easy of mind.†   (source)
  • We shall not detain the narrative, to relate the quaint morals with which he next endeavoured to cheer the drooping spirits of his more sensitive companion, or the occasional pithy and peculiar benedictions that he pronounced, on all the bands of the Dahcotahs, commencing with those whom he accused of stealing or murdering, on the banks of the distant Mississippi, and concluding, in terms of suitable energy, with the Teton tribe.†   (source)
  • The lama bowed his head in benediction.†   (source)
  • All those benedictions will fall back before they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God.†   (source)
  • "Craig is covering us with benedictions," observed this person to his young ensign, with an air of indifference, as he shut the glass and handed it to his servant; "to say the truth, not without reason; it is certainly more agreeable to be here in attendance on Miss Judith Hutter, than to be burying Indians on a point of the lake, however romantic the position, or brilliant the victory.†   (source)
  • But a bird sang blithely on a budding bough, close by, the snowdrops blossomed freshly at the window, and the spring sunshine streamed in like a benediction over the placid face upon the pillow, a face so full of painless peace that those who loved it best smiled through their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last.†   (source)
  • The name of a woman should be agreeable, sweet, fanciful; it should end in long vowels, and resemble words of benediction.'†   (source)
  • There, when every body else had partaken of the communion, and the benediction had been pronounced, the minister said, "Come down, now, my colored friends."†   (source)
  • Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time.†   (source)
  • With this parting benediction, Miss Price swept from the room, followed by the huge Yorkshireman, who exchanged with Nicholas, at parting, that peculiarly expressive scowl with which the cut-and-thrust counts, in melodramatic performances, inform each other they will meet again.†   (source)
  • It is probable, too, that the language in which the benediction was conferred, and the information asked, sounded ungracious, though not probably unintelligible, in the ears of the Saxon peasants.†   (source)
  • Upon which M. d'Artagnan the elder girded his own sword round his son, kissed him tenderly on both cheeks, and gave him his benediction.†   (source)
  • And Mrs. Sedley tossed out of the room, hissing out the word poison once more, and so ending her charitable benediction.†   (source)
  • On Sundays, after Phoebe had been at church,—for the girl had a church-going conscience, and would hardly have been at ease had she missed either prayer, singing, sermon, or benediction,—after church-time, therefore, there was, ordinarily, a sober little festival in the garden.†   (source)
  • He stood at the window, looking over the prison-parapet with its grim spiked border, and breathed a benediction through the summer haze towards the distant land where she was rich and prosperous.†   (source)
  • It was not of a benedictory kind.†   (source)
  • …was not much disposed to sleep—being in truth too anxious—so, after a little demur, he accepted the offer, and having exchanged a shake of the hand with the young Crummleses, and the manager having on his part bestowed a most affectionate benediction on Smike, he sat himself down opposite to that gentleman by the fireside to assist in emptying the bowl, which soon afterwards appeared, steaming in a manner which was quite exhilarating to behold, and sending forth a most grateful and…†   (source)
  • It would have been enough to live for, merely to look up at the wide benediction of the sky, or as much of it as was visible between the houses, genial once more with sunshine.†   (source)
  • The pallor of hunger suited Kim very well as he stood, tall and slim, in his sand-coloured, sweeping robes, one hand on his rosary and the other in the attitude of benediction, faithfully copied from the lama.†   (source)
  • "Upon my soul, I am about of the same opinion; so give the benediction, Fleece, and I'll away to my supper."†   (source)
  • Sir Pitt went off after this benediction, and the solemn Tinker, rushlight in hand, led the way up the great bleak stone stairs, past the great dreary drawing-room doors, with the handles muffled up in paper, into the great front bedroom, where Lady Crawley had slept her last.†   (source)
  • The benediction was pronounced.†   (source)
  • The edifice had also sounds fraught with such benediction and such majesty, that they soothed this ailing soul.†   (source)
  • At dinner that day, although the occasion was not foreseen and provided for, a brilliant company of such as are not made of the dust of the earth, but of some superior article for the present unknown, shed their lustrous benediction upon Mr Dorrit's daughter's marriage.†   (source)
  • But after the religious topics were exhausted, Lady Macbeth would not quit Becky's chamber until her cup of night-drink was emptied too; and poor Mrs. Rawdon was compelled actually to assume a look of gratitude, and to swallow the medicine under the unyielding old Dowager's nose, who left her victim finally with a benediction.†   (source)
  • The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, with a benediction for one and pardon for the other.†   (source)
  • He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed, and he was left alone in the place.†   (source)
  • The daybeam—even what little of it finds its way into this always dusky parlor—seems part of the universal benediction, annulling evil, and rendering all goodness possible, and happiness attainable.†   (source)
  • "Which means," resumed Aramis, that he might perfectly understand, " 'The two hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction.'†   (source)
  • The poor of her day had made her a fine funeral, with tears and benedictions; but, to their great regret, the pious maid had not been canonized, for lack of influence.†   (source)
  • Then gravely, and moving his lips like one who is praying or talking to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom.†   (source)
  • As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or chapels, marriages, etc., the Bishop levied them on the wealthy with all the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy.†   (source)
  • If it were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming visions of the upper life, it is probable that we should behold the forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of human bliss upon their divine countenances.†   (source)
  • Instead, he raised his hand in a gesture of benediction and dismissal.†   (source)
  • It was the men's temperance retreat conducted by the missioner, the reverend John Hughes S. J., rosary, sermon and benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.†   (source)
  • …exclamation and gave a nervous cough and Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact by saying that that was the benediction because just then the bell rang out from the steeple over the quiet seashore because Canon O'Hanlon was up on the altar with the veil that Father Conroy put round his shoulders giving the benediction with the Blessed Sacrament in his…†   (source)
  • Canon O'Hanlon put the Blessed Sacrament back into the tabernacle and genuflected and the choir sang Laudate Dominum omnes gentes and then he locked the tabernacle door because the benediction was over and Father Conroy handed him his hat to put on and crosscat Edy asked wasn't she coming but Jacky Caffrey called out: —O, look, Cissy!†   (source)
  • So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction.†   (source)
  • After this he pronounced the benediction in Latin.†   (source)
  • The same in the Benediction of the Oyle.†   (source)
  • O, look upon me, sir, And hold your hands in benediction o'er me.†   (source)
  • About this time the father of our Chrysostom died, and he was left heir to a large amount of property in chattels as well as in land, no small number of cattle and sheep, and a large sum of money, of all of which the young man was left dissolute owner, and indeed he was deserving of it all, for he was a very good comrade, and kind-hearted, and a friend of worthy folk, and had a countenance like a benediction.†   (source)
  • Good king, that must approve the common saw,— Thou out of heaven's benediction com'st To the warm sun!†   (source)
  • *benediction Lo Judith, as the story telle can, By good counsel she Godde's people kept, And slew him, Holofernes, while he slept.†   (source)
  • I have sold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a riband, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fasting;—they throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallowed, and brought a benediction to the buyer: by which means I saw whose purse was best in picture; and what I saw, to my good use I remembered.†   (source)
  • How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.†   (source)
  • Yet him God the Most High vouchsafes To call by vision, from his father's house, His kindred, and false Gods, into a land Which he will show him; and from him will raise A mighty nation; and upon him shower His benediction so, that in his seed All nations shall be blest: he straight obeys; Not knowing to what land, yet firm believes: I see him, but thou canst not, with what faith He leaves his Gods, his friends, and native soil, Ur of Chaldaea, passing now the ford To Haran; after him…†   (source)
  • At this time we talked no further; but another morning he comes to me, just as I was going to visit the Englishman's colony, and tells me, that as he knew; the prosperity of the island, was my principal desire, he had something to communicate agreeable to my design, by which perhaps be might put it, more than he yet thought it was, in the way of the benediction of heaven.†   (source)
  • …some vial to pour it into, and as there was not one in the inn, he decided on putting it into a tin oil-bottle or flask of which the host made him a free gift; and over the flask he repeated more than eighty paternosters and as many more ave-marias, salves, and credos, accompanying each word with a cross by way of benediction, at all which there were present Sancho, the innkeeper, and the cuadrillero; for the carrier was now peacefully engaged in attending to the comfort of his mules.†   (source)
  • It was therefore the Assembly that elected their own Elders: the Apostles were onely Presidents of the Assembly to call them together for such Election, and to pronounce them Elected, and to give them the benediction, which now is called Consecration.†   (source)
  • A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness, That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights To his dog-hearted daughters,—these things sting His mind so venomously that burning shame Detains him from Cordelia.†   (source)
  • And the same in the Benediction of the Salt to be mingled with it; "That thou become Conjured Salt, that all Phantasmes, and Knavery of the Devills fraud may fly and depart from the place wherein thou art sprinkled; and every unclean Spirit bee Conjured by Him that shall come to judge the quicke and the dead."†   (source)
  • For your highnesses must know that, going a few days back to kiss her hands and receive her benediction, approbation, and permission for this third sally, I found her altogether a different being from the one I sought; I found her enchanted and changed from a princess into a peasant, from fair to foul, from an angel into a devil, from fragrant to pestiferous, from refined to clownish, from a dignified lady into a jumping tomboy, and, in a word, from Dulcinea del Toboso into a coarse…†   (source)
  • …should escape for want of care and pains; so keen was the covetousness excited in him by the discovery of the crowns, which amounted to near a hundred; and though he found no more booty, he held the blanket flights, balsam vomits, stake benedictions, carriers' fisticuffs, missing alforjas, stolen coat, and all the hunger, thirst, and weariness he had endured in the service of his good master, cheap at the price; as he considered himself more than fully indemnified for all by the…†   (source)
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