benedicite

Example Sentences

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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

Pietro pretended to consent, and began, to utter, by way of preface, the word "benedicite."

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

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.

"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

A pilgrim came from o'er the sea; Benedicite! benedicite!

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John