benison
Example Sentences
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Like Malik Solanka of Fury, who fled to America “to receive the benison of being Ellis Islanded,” the Goldens, too, have come seeking rebirth in the land of reinvention.
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2017
"A Bit of a Tune" revisits Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" and its crack-of-dawn encounter with the moon, finding it "a benison and a boon".
From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2012
Since then, succeeding crowns have given benison To sixteen poets, e.g.,
From Time Magazine Archive
His rooms aren't closed, artificially lit boxes but part of a continuity between the inner and outer worlds, revealing the truth of both under the benison of natural light.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearest to Nature's very heart of hearts, The verdant monarchs beckon us to God; Their benison with life alone departs; They testify of Eden from the sod.
From Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation by Richmond, Hiram Hoyt
Vocabulary lists containing benison
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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The Wind in the Willows
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