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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