benedicite

Example Sentences

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Who will place A veil between me and the fierce in-throng Of her inexorable benedicite?

From Gloucester Moors and Other Poems by Moody, William Vaughn

I welcome this solemn old brotherhood, which stand gray-bearded, like monks, old, dark, solemn, sighing a certain mournful sound—like a benedicite through the leaves.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

And here again Chaucer has brought his own experience, though half in jest, as a parallel to the sack of Ilion and Carthage or the burning of Rome— So hideous was the noise, benedicite!

From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.

Soft through her soul there crept The echo of a benedicite, Enwrapping her in calm, triumphant peace.

From Under King Constantine by Trask, Katrina

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