Page 26 the venerable Pontifex Maximus, for whom I have ever since felt the highest respect, had his driver stop, and, leaning out of the window, bestowed the "benedicite" (if correct in Church nomenclature), and moved on. ❋ Unknown (1906)
The wandering pilgrim, or the begging friar, answered his reverent greeting with a paternal benedicite ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thou hast in thee nor agility nor benedicite nor thinkest thou of aught save meat and sleep. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So saying, he dismissed Roland Graeme, through a different door from that by which he had entered, signed a cross, and pronounced a benedicite as they parted, and then, still muttering to himself, retired into the garden, and locked the door on the inside. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Come, my friends, let us have peace, and say our benedicite. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He heard the supper gong sounding: he knew his way to the door well enough; he entered the familiar hall with a benedicite, and without any more words took his place. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The Capuchin had taken the same precaution, and followed Peregrine into the room, pronouncing benedicite, and crossing himself with many marks of astonishment. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Ah, benedicite! how he will mourn over the fall of such a pearl of knighthood, be it on the side he happens to favour, or on the other. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Angeli Domini, Dominum benedicite in aeternum. posted by John at 12: 21 AM ❋ John (2002)
Prior Aymer, therefore, and his character, were well known to our Saxon serfs, who made their rude obeisance, and received his “benedicite, mes filz,” in return. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They were to her mother a joy, and to the maiden herself -- ah! benedicite -- a pride. ❋ Various (N/A)
The benedicite of the Druid woods, always appreciated by the few, like Lowell, is coming to be understood by the many. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)
Peasants, sitting under the shade of a tree, in front of their house, repeat their benedicite before beginning their frugal midday meal. ❋ Unknown (1897)
I turned, and made to take her hand that I might kiss it, but she drew it away, and then, standing on the threshold, she raised it as one does in bestowing a _benedicite_, and said: ❋ Robert Neilson Stephens (1886)
The Dominican, after muttering the benedicite, to which scarcely any one knew how to respond, began to serve the contents. ❋ Jos�� Rizal (1878)
And there is dear blood in it -- but _benedicite_. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)
Pietro pretended to consent, and began, to utter, by way of preface, the word "benedicite." ❋ Sutherland Orr (1865)
Brother Bulpett, here be two young kinsmen of Master Birkenholt to visit him; and so benedicite, fair sirs. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
It is a song of natural piety which is new every morning, and fails not every evening, although many jars mingle in the wide-toned benedicite. ❋ 1823-1886 (1855)
