How To Use Benison In A Sentence
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We know that Ms. Lavenham is on the road to wisdom, however, when James tells us she is ‘already half aware that, while good looks and prettiness were benisons, beauty was a dangerous and less amenable gift.’
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He sees himself as the applied scientist who will bring the benisons of molecular biology to practical use.
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As, Shaun replied patly, with tootlepick tact too and a down of his dampers, to that I have the gumpower and, by the benison of Barbe, that is a lock to say with everything, my be-loved. —
Finnegans Wake
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Our Lady, my benison upon her, is also a noble person of long descent, and rightful heir of this place and barony, and she also loves her will; as for that matter, show me the woman who doth not.
The Abbot
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With the benison of Big Tim Sullivan, Arnold had been involved in bookmaking, shylocking, and gambling enterprises since at least the turn of the century.
May 2005: Nick Tosches on Arnold Rothstein
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In it, the Leader of the seder (usually a father, grandfather, or guest of honor) recites a series of God's blessings on the Jewish people, to which the assembled express thanks and proclaim that each benison, in and of itself, would have been "enough.
Ellis Weiner: A Public Service from The Huffington Post: Dayenu 5766
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When life was a thing of plenty, of benison, instead of loss.
LOST CHILDREN
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After all I had been through, to have this benison delivered to me was a real treat.
VITALS
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Ere she had finished her prayer, she started at feeling a man’s arm across her shoulder, while a rough voice spoke in her ear — “What! menseful Mysie of the Mill so soon at her prayers? — now, benison on the bonny eyes that open so early! —
The Monastery
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Thus it is my holy benison to be employed by this excellent Lady and is why I am writing to you in this capacity.
Ellis Weiner: Recent O'Donnell Fundraising Letter
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As, Shaun replied patly, with tootlepick tact too and a down of his dampers, to that I have the gumpower and, by the benison of Barbe, that is a lock to say with everything, my be-loved. —
Finnegans Wake
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All of the time-consuming, head-cracking effort of an editor has relaxed and evened out, as though deftly pressed by some magic iron, and a benison has spread over the evening.
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And Zal answered her benison, and prayed that he might enter into nearer converse, for he was on the ground and she was on the roof.
The Epic of Kings
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It was a glorious morning, the impartial sun shining over everything with a kind of benison.
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Poor old men! how could they be cordial with their sore consciences and shamed faces? how could they bid God bless him with hearty voices and a true benison, knowing, as they did, that their vile cabal had driven him from his happy home, and sent him in his old age to seek shelter under a strange roof-tree?
The Warden
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What is benison for Chelsea inevitably turns out to be a curse on their peers.
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So when Babette, a “fan of Goddard, Planned Parenthood, and The Nation,” read a singles ad from a “SWM whose passions include Amnesty International, EarthFirst! and a free Tibet,” well, it sent hopeful little bells of benison cascading through her heart.
Last Lullaby