Sample sentences for BENEDICTION

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the closing prayer for God's blessing of the congregation offered by a clergyman at the end of a worship service

To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

Now, sleep...... He raised a hand, as if in benediction, and peace crept through Eragon.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Berger had raised his arms in the familiar gesture of confusion and benediction: "Listen, you're my prize pupil, you know that?
Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
I knew Mr. Henry Drummond, and the memory of his strong, warm hand-clasp is like a benediction.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
I take my hat off to them, I go down on my knees to them and ask their benediction.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
He was a Shadowhunter; he had died in battle; he deserved the last benediction.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
The same in the Benediction of the Oyle.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
Larson might have been standing in church, waiting for the benediction, for all his face showed.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
The evening air is a benediction.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
"Cold," he says, the word a benediction.
Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong
It was not of a benedictory kind.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
There was Prusias, the king, standing to issue some sort of tribute or benediction.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
After this he pronounced the benediction in Latin.
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
Paneloux went up to the bed and made the sign of benediction.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
And standing right behind me was the head of the school, Chairman Jin, who had repeatedly stressed the importance of the Morning Benediction.
Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl
Thousands of voices repeated the benediction; thousands of men prostrated themselves like trees before a tempest.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
He smiled and waved one hand in a vague benediction.
Megan Whalen Turner -- The Thief
And Mrs. Sedley tossed out of the room, hissing out the word poison once more, and so ending her charitable benediction.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
The name of a woman should be agreeable, sweet, fanciful; it should end in long vowels, and resemble words of benediction.'
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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