Benisons

We stood up ourselves and called benisons on the Germans. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Three new novels set in far-flung locales dramatize this national neurosis still at work, showing characters torn between an urge to introduce the benisons of Western civilization and a dread that such intrusions will be damaging and unwanted. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He sees himself as the applied scientist who will bring the benisons of molecular bi­ology to practical use. ❋ Unknown (2005)

From alleyways the benisons of beggars came, from lanes they waved their precatory hands. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

Perhaps it was no more than the comfort of knowing that he could still take pleasure in the unsolicited benisons of existence. ❋ James, P. D. (1988)

Johnnie Pascoe had been a better man than I, but he had never had the little benisons of life that I had got. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1958)

It was night bereft of benisons, day made frightful by darkness. ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)

The moon that night was too brilliant for benisons; the gaunt, red world lay naked and unshriven for the sin that long ago had brought upon it the wrath of God. ❋ Marie Manning (N/A)

She must also visit the potter's and washerman's wives, whose benisons are essential; they give her a new pot and a little rice respectively. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

Ye peaks! from celestial sanctities benisons casting, ❋ Various (N/A)

Disguises are used, with the result that the loving couple, Livia and Candius, marry under the unconscious benisons of their parents. ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)

Seeing no difference between the "just and the unjust"; showering down upon all alike, benisons of wisdom, and peace and good will. ❋ Anna Bishop Scofield (N/A)

That she, Joan Fayre, should be calling down devout benisons on the head of T. Tembarom -- T. Tembarom! ❋ Unknown (1913)

Mumbling still below her breath her inarticulate benisons, Biddy passed through her mistress's room into her own. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The benisons of the stars and suns are cast upon these youngest worlds. ❋ Herman George Scheffauer (1902)

The berth prepared, he deposited the sumptuously-apparelled Jean therein and drove away, amid the perplexed benisons of the landlady and her satellites. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

He died in 1031, and the benisons and lamentations of the poor and lowly winged his spirit to its rest. ❋ Thomas Okey (1893)

Do thou mount this tree and look upon them, lest the benisons of the devout escape thee. ' ❋ Anonymous (1879)

Vessels like their own, but with lanterns of stained aguave at the prows, seeking some favorite chinampa, sped by with benisons from the crews. ❋ Unknown (1873)