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
It badly needed such a benison to retrieve its reputation after one of its first acts: it set the date for new elections in the Soviet zone at Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
Set to a fanfare of steam whistles, Old Brazen Tongue of Gilmorehill tolls us benison as we steer between the pierheads.
From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.
Vocabulary lists containing benison
"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 2
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2015 National Spelling Bee Words
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The Wind in the Willows
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