How To Use Blessed In A Sentence
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his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride.
The Seattle Times
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But the settlements prevailed, delusory shortcuts to a palpable proof that the Jewish people were truly blessed by God.
The Chosen Peoples
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He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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But surely, I say, there are some people blessed with sunny dispositions - it doesn't necessarily mean they're valiantly trying to stop themselves from sliding into despair.
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The good news for Gators fans is that the team is blessed at line-backer, with stalwarts such as Byron Hardmon, Mike Nattiel and Matt Farrior.
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(Isaiah 59: 15-16) (this is the only place where the word appalled is used for the way God feels -- in other words, the only thing which we know God is appalled by is if people are not doing justice) "Blessed are they who maintain justice ....
As People of Faith . . . We Must Impeach
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Take this with you, it's been blessed by the Holy Father and it will do you good to use it.
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May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem.
Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
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The thoughtful formality of etiquette is a blessed relief.
Times, Sunday Times
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Imposition of hands was a ceremony used especially in paternal blessings; Jacob used it when he blessed and adopted the sons of Joseph, Gen. xlviii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Thou teachest "my hands to war and my fingers to fight" [361] against the invisible enemies of my salvation and blessedness; against the enemies of holiness and of the power of Thy glory; against the subcelestial spirits of evil.
My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
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Is this the marriage that is blessed or the marriage that is on the brink of destruction?
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Then he added, " Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish.
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a blessed time
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Let me care for Hester in my own way so long as I do no sin and harm no one; and be you father to us, and bless us who else must go unblessed.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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It had been a cold smile and a cold extension o f the hand, but as he took it he had felt blessed.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Then I discovered a blessed pack of seaweed rice crackers I hadn't eaten at our party on Friday nite (omigod have I got some blogging to do).
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Then a strange quiet descends after the Gregorian chant ‘Tantum Ergo’ as the Blessed Sacrament is laid at the altar of repose.
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My sister is eight years younger than me, and did not have the Jewish education I was blessed to have had.
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Barrack Obama was named after his Kenya immigrant father and the given name means " blessed.
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Christ, and fear of God; the which, good Christian, thou mayest do, and do acceptably, even though thou shouldst lie bedrid all thy days; thou mayest also be sick and believe, be sick and love, be sick and fear God, and so be a blessed man.
The Riches of Bunyan
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The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation.
Expositions of Holy Scripture
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This country is blessed with hundreds of quirky events and celebrations throughout the year and they are all part of our rich and diverse culture and history.
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His Requiem Mass was celebrated in the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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He often summons the image of a bridge, as he does here in his perhaps most definitive passage about the Overman: There it was too that I picked up the word "overman" by the way, and that man is something that must be overcome-that man is a bridge and no end: proclaiming himself blessed in view of his noon and evening, as the way to new dawns-Zarathustra's word of the great noon, and whatever else I hung up over man like the last crimson light of evening.
Archive 2005-10-01
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They are blessed with speed, agility and a very pleasing nature and broken in by the old and traditional way of the herdsmen, the gauchos.
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This was the task that was given to all demi-gods, if they failed, then they would continue to live mortal lives - however, if they succeeded then they would be blessed with godship, and ultimate mastery of their element.
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But whennot the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul, 95 nor he blessed who doth ungodlily, 96 buta man is praised for some gift which Thou hast given him, and he rejoices more at the praise for himself than that he hath the gift for which he is praised, he also is praised, while Thou dispraisest; and better is he who praised than he who is praised.
The Tenth Book
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She is blessed with long legs and suits trousers.
The Sun
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Wesley was blessed with a living experience of Christ and from the time of his conversion became an earnest evangelist who spent the rest of his long life preaching the gospel.
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The 14s were replaced by 12s; the 12s were replaced by 10s, and finally the 10s were pushed aside for the blessed 8s, Mercie's target size.
The Strange Reign of the Diet Queen
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Having again experienced, in November 2006, the joy and emotion of the personal and blessed participation of Your Holiness in the patronal feast of Constantinople, the commemoration of the St. Andrew the Apostle, the First Called, I set out "with a joyous step" from Fener in the New Rome, to come to you to participate in your joy in the patronal feast of Old Rome.
Archive 2008-06-29
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Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will impute sin.
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Submitting to the Lord's will, the mortal is blessed with all virtues and gnosis and he obtains honor in the Lord's court.
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God surrounds "delicious Paradise" with a "verdurous wall", enclosing his blessed but vulnerable human couple.
Ten of the best: walled gardens
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Warming, flavoursome comfort food like game comes as a blessed relief after cold, lifeless platters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh for the good old days when it was acceptable to go to the druggist, whisper "paregoric" to him/her, and a few drops brought blessed silence!
The Sound Of Crazy
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Trial by blessed bread was a test for priests, for it was assumed guilty clergy would choke on hallowed food.
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The angels said, "Who does not know that the delights of conjugial love exceed those of all other loves? and who cannot see, that into some love are collected all the blessednesses, satisfactions, and delights, which can possibly be conferred by the Lord, and that the receptacle thereof is love truly conjugial, which is capable of receiving and perceiving them fully and sensibly?
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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As a lad, he used to race bikes and his brother blessed him with the name of Bob-man, which has stuck like glue ever since.
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Her religion is an obscure chaos of theogonies as old as the world, treasured up out of respect for ancient customs; and of more recent ideas about the blessed final annihilation, imported from India by saintly Chinese missionaries at the epoch of our
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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His precious remains rest quietly in the fresh made grave; his immortal spirit has winged its flight to the mansions of the blessed, for blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
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O Jesu Christ, who might be so blessed that might see openly thy great marvels of secretness there where no sinner may be!
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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The inworking of this blessedness in the case of each believer proceeds solely and immediately from Christ himself, through the word of institution in which the redeeming and communion-forming love of Christ is presented and ever operates as a stimulus to piety.
The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"
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Gradually the call to preach ‘the glorious gospel of the blessed God, the gospel of the good news to lost sinners’, had been developing in Richard.
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He must be aerating the soil, the blessed man.
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A praise singer blessed the constitution as the first to prepare the country for development before a Guguletu choir sang renditions of "Shosholoza" and other freedom songs until the members of the CA appeared on the steps of Parliament.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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On that day, children of those ages are taken to a Shinto shrine to be blessed.
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Blessedness is of comparative degree,you will feel it with more ease when there is something under you.
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Frenchman, who skulked so that I made sure of him, and not a blessed anker of foreign brandy, nor even a forty-pound bag of tea.
Mary Anerley
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Embattled against the blessed angelic and archangelic host are the wicked cohorts of the Lords of Darkness.
PROBLEM OF EVIL
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When the old woman had made an end of her ablution, she came up to where he sat, and prayed a two bow prayer; after which she blessed my brother with a godly benediction, and he while thanking her put his hand to the dinars and gave her two, saying to himself “These are my voluntaries.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The pair are blessed with bodies the rest of us mere mortals can only dream of.
The Sun
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Professor, solemnly examine yourself; 'in proportion to your fruitfulness will be your blessedness.'
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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As the good Spirit works that which is good in obedient souls, so this evil spirit works that which is evil in wicked men; and he now works, not only heretofore, but even since the world has been blessed with the light of the glorious gospel.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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It is a day of reverent pilgrimage with the celebrant of the Mass bringing the Blessed Sacrament to the island in a special currach.
More Boats
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Even if one is blessed with the senses of touch, smell, speech and hearing, it is sight that gives shape to imagination.
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May you be eternally blessed as a member of our people.
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Their full blessedness is now "from henceforth," that is,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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By the end of the journey, he can find himself caught seriously short, so the aromatic cubicles that pass for lavs at Bondi Junction station become sanctuaries of blessed relief.
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If you have not heard any of their music, then your honour is definitely blessed.
The Sun
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The bishop blessed the new church.
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Those blessed battlements (which had been of so much help to him ever since he had dashed from the wall across the grounds) were, now that he came to think of it, one of the recognized symbols in art of Sphigx, the lion-goddess of war; and Lion had been the name of Mucor's horned cat-of the animal she called her lynx, which had not harmed him.
Nightside The Long Sun
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If my father blessed me with the dew of heaven, he blessed thee with the fatness of the earth, and if he spoke to me, Peoples will serve thee, he hath said unto thee, By thy sword shalt thou live.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
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The priest blessed her into a healthy woman.
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Thou art that blessed mediatress between God and men, by whom what is lowest is united to that which is most sublime.
The Oratory of the Faithful Soul; or, Devotions to the Most Holy Sacrament, and to Our Blessed Lady.
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Her Italian background blessed her with a clear, dark olive complexion and deep russet hair.
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It is, in short, nearness to God -- the blessed assurance which God Himself can alone give that He is there, whatever our cold doubts may say -- that the everlasting arms are around us, even when we do not feel their quiet and strong embrace.
Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.
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But to some of us it comes as a blessed relief.
Times, Sunday Times
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So this year, consider creating an interior file in your soul called Pajama Day, and when things get crazed, out of nowhere, declare a blustery March Saturday Pajama Day, or a blistery August Sunday Pajama Day or any blessed day you feel like stopping and hanging out in your own holy wholeness.
Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year
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I'm blessed if I'm going to do cook an 'stooard's work single-handed, an' you lazy rascallion a caulkin 'all over the ship!
The Island Treasure
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It's been bruited about by well-known theologians, sharp-tongued satirists and social critics (Mark Twain among others), but it's not really a very subtle point: The life of eternal blessedness sounds boring.
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Kerala is blessed with rivers, lakes and lagoons and these offer a rare spectacle to tourists.
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Despite the involvement of Freeman, not enough is made of his blessed divinity.
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Life is in favor of those who are blessed with emotional intelligence, self-restraint, prudence, and positive behavior. Dr T.P.Chia
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This feeling is our superessential blessedness, which is a fruition of God and all His beloved: and this blessedness is that Dark Quiet which ever abides in idleness.
The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
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Then King Arthur and all the kings and knights kneeled down and gave thankings and lovings unto God and to His Blessed Mother.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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There are very few frustrations as a grain grower -- other than the fact that the market hasn't been there this past year -- but we were very blessed by the Lord to have our crops sold when many others had to sit on their crops.
Maria Rodale: Message From Montana
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For most of the journey her driver plied her with cassettes of bouzouki music, so there was blessedly little call for conversation.
SURE OF YOU
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Few of us are blessed with ideal situations, often having to endure steep slopes, narrow alley-ways or deep shade.
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Emotions influence us mentally, spiritually, psychologically and physiologically in everyday life. We will gain if we are blessed with positive emotions. We will lose if we are controlled by negative emotions. Dr T.P.Chia
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Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit.
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Cullen often dwells on the innocence and clear-eyed religiousness of his youth - the holy water the family blessed themselves with before leaving home, attending Mass every morning.
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You blessed darling!" she softly exclaimed, "here I've been waiting for you, and _waiting_ for you and longing -- _Oh_!
An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
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And found there the blessed Denis preaching, and made him cruelly to be beaten, bespit and despised, and fast to be bounden with Rusticus and Eleutherius, and to be brought tofore him: And when he saw that the saints were constant and firm in the acknowledging of our Lord, he was much heavy and sorrowful.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5
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Every religion has its fundies, people who believe that they are the blessed ones and everyone else is an unbeliever, unworthy.
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During one visit, according to Gurudeva, Lord Ganesha Himself appeared and blessed him at this temple.
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Before noon of the same day, that forge was blessed by the monastic priests of nearby Kadavul Temple.
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Jim Norton plays Finian with Irish charm; his Finian is a lovable conniver blessed with a glint in his eye and an endless supply of quick-witted retorts.
Crazytown, Missitucky
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God forgives the inattention at Mass of an old man when he sleeps; of a young man when he loves; and the wandering attention of an _old_ man blessed with a _young_ heart the Almighty will surely pardon, for He Himself must admire beauty, since He made it. '
A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
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Prothero's genius had liberated itself for the time being in his last poem; it was detached from him; it wandered free, like a blessed spirit invisible, while Prothero's brain agonized and journalized as Laura said.
The Creators A Comedy
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Hits it miles, has nerves of steel and is blessed with that they call in football a good touch for a big fella.
The Sun
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Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun which bestowed such joy upon me.
Chapter 16
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The long-flowing lines smile euphoniously, without generating harsh inner tensions, and evoking a serenity appropriate to G major's blessedness.
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Lily was blessed with her mother's flame coloured locks, and mischievous streak.
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You and I are highly evolved individuated selves who have been blessed with the extraordinary capacity for self-reflective awareness and the freedom to choose.
Andrew Z. Cohen: What Is Conscious Evolution?
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Britain is blessed with two main measures of consumer prices inflation, the retail prices index and the consumer prices index.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serios plays the part of a buffoon, a vulgarian blessed with a minor telepathic power.
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
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So when all 60 of us were going off to university or college or to a job, we vowed that nothing would change and left blessed with the sheen of invincibility, yearbooks tucked under untucked shirts, without looking back.
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We human beings don’t realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colors and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, a nose which smells the beauty of fragrance, and two ears to hear the words of love. As I found with my ear, no one knows how much power they have in their each and every organ until they lose one. Malala Yousafzai
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In addition to great charm he was blessed with good looks and, consequently, had many female admirers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, _Euge!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
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The third and final session was blessed with warm and sunny weather so we all got tired because of the heat!
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Blessed Heaven! deny not to my prayers, my friend, my admonisher, my adviser, at a time so critical to myself.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Jonathan Swift
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View image of page frequently rejoice unrestrainedly, and thank the Lord that he hath thus favored me in the choice, which I now verily believe was directed and sanctioned by his providence and which I trust shall ever be blessed to his holy name and to usefulness in his cause.
Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie HoustonOctober 10, 1856
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Scripture scholars contend that the original language of the Beatitudes should not be rendered as “Blessed are the single-hearted” or “Blessed are the peacemakers” or “Blessed are those who struggle for justice.”
Tattoos on the Heart
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place on the 1st April.
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The dark lass that would not be a nun in England, God keep her, why should she, a black Welshwoman as ever was!, and said yes to Ieuan ab Ifor as a blessed relief by comparison, do you tell me she has stolen a horse and made off into the night before the guard shut us in?
His Disposition
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The enjoyment of heaven is usually called the beatifical vision; that is, such an intellectual present view, apprehension, and sight of God and his glory, especially as manifested in Christ, as will make us blessed unto eternity.
Christologia
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Going through the locks was definitely a team effort, and we repeatedly blessed the 20 rubber fenders that literally circled our boat.
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The aluminum siding was a dingier white and there was no rock garden or statute of the Blessed Mother.
The Hanging Tree
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Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are. Mehmet Murat ildan
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Our church communities are blessed by the rich diversity of people that God has created as the body of Christ.
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So the next day, after his sermon, the Pope concluded by saying, ‘Tuti homini, et tuti femini’ - Blessed be mankind and womankind.
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You must have felt that even the formula of the Church of Rome would be a blessed power to exercise, could it but once be accepted as a pledge that all the past was obliterated, and that from that moment a free untainted future lay before the soul -- you must have _felt_ that; you must have wished you had dared to
Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
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The country is also blessed with plenty of precious minerals such as diamonds, gold, emeralds, amethyst which are all waiting to be exploited.
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All through the service Ranny's heart was singing a hymn to the blessed little feet that had so fetched him, the blessed little tootsy-woots in the blessed little shoes.
The Combined Maze
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Precise terms couldn't be learned, but the person said Sprint's board has blessed the "broad outlines" of a deal.
Sprint in Talks to Share Network
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Love can grow and bloom well if it is blessed with full and strong trust.
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… Blessed with a big voice and stage presence, the heavyset Carter prided herself on her range as a performer, doing musicals and drama as well as comedy.
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Computer disks and skimpy tight female clothing, the demonic symbols of unblessed sexuality and perverted science, Allah's fires rise up and crush the wickedness, a blazing cleansing heat.
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Living half of your title outweigh the other; till after long and blessed labors, the white stone is given you in the happy land.”
The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
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A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, and realize how blessed you are for what you have.
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O God, who in wondrous wise didst raise up blessed Joan for the defense of her faith and her country: grant, we beseech thee, through her intercession, that thy church, overcoming all the wiles of her enemies, may enjoy unceasing peace.
May 30 -- St Joan of Arc
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The Open can be blessed or blighted by meteorological conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish.
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Pet owners blessed with common sense may point out that one of the primary reasons for owning a dog is that all concerned can enjoy walkies.
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And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Some of the most commonly used herbal galactagogues are fenugreek, blessed thistle, and alfalfa.
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A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, and realize how blessed you are for what you have.
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Surely, it immediately seems ironic they should want to marry, when it is a religious ceremony, being blessed under God.
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I cannot think of another artist whose canvases convey so clearly quite what a blessed existence the painter believes he leads.
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Helen and Philip were blessed with a beautiful day, with the church looking resplendent.
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Far from old heads themselves, they defend from the front but are blessed with a sturdy and determined back line that is as resolute as it is brave.
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Blessed are they who rise from the life of prayer into the spirit of praise, and learn that prayer is but the earthliest form of worship.
Sermons. Volume Third.
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In Graham Stuart Thomas’ Three Gardens of Pleasant Flowers: With Notes on Their Design, Maintenance, and Plants (1983), p. 9, meanwhile, we find the rather cloying remark, “Plants as a rule increase … and the giving away of manavilins is a blessed form of friendship in which we all take pleasure.”
Manavalums
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: _A Thistle: a Thistle and Rose dimidiated and crowned_, No. 308, with the motto -- “_Beati Pacifici_” (Blessed are the peacemakers).
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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As a lad I had a very high fitness level and it is obvious from looking at Stuart that he was blessed with the same attribute.
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As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so they fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, of religion, -- ghosts which they cannot lay; -- and, having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, they are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
English Traits (1856)
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It is August 14, 1941, the vigil of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, the Woman clothed with the sun and the moon and the stars, who long before had promised young Maximilian the twin crowns of purity and martyrdom for God.
Anti-Catholicism
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He is blessed by cold, the only solid being in a landscape of puddling humanity.
Felder on Ice
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She was also perceptive and blessed with a keen sense of humour and a prodigious memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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(I think Cathy Seipp of blessed memory did the reverse — "sipe" instead of "seep.")
Terrance Heath: Sotomayor and the Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2
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Blessed with masses of ripe, velvety, cedary fruit and that classic tannic finish, this is bang on the money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be called upon to staunch a splendid flow of blood, and dress a wonderful wound.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The country is blessed with hundreds of miles of sprawling sandy beaches, with fine white sand and clear blue water.
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Now hyperdulia is apparently a mean between latria and dulia: for it is shown towards creatures having a special affinity to God, for instance to the Blessed Virgin as being the mother of God.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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A favorite in our household because of the large size and taste, we concentrate our picking efforts biannually on these trees when blessed with a crop.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Here again the icon serves to limn the artifice of time, drawing to this one still point a broad synaxis of the blessed, including some whose souls unbodied have preceded her to Paradise.
Scott Cairns: The Dormition of the Mother of God
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Den it must be legalised, notarised, apostillised, blessed bai teh Pope an buried in a lockd filing cabinet in teh basement behind a sine sayin “Beware of teh lepard” foar three munfs.
GET IN MAH BELLEH! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Here was the thing we all crave: blessed peace and quiet.
Times, Sunday Times
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At sunrise when the red sky is reflected in calm water and the line of the horizon disappears, I have a still, calm sense of blessedness.
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a blessed time
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Esclairmonde -- nay, after every glance towards her -- as though it were a blessed thing to have, like her, chosen the better part; he knew she would approve his resort to the home of piety and learning; he was aware that when with Ralf Percy and the other youths of the Court he was ashamed of his own scrupulousness, and tempted to neglect observances that they might call monkish and unmanly; and he was not at all sure that in face of the enemy a panic might not seize him and disgrace him for ever!
The Caged Lion
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Are those who call themselves by his name diligent in the work to which he put his blessed hands?
Cast Adrift
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It is ironic that what O'Casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at the crossroads blessed by big bellied bishops, is what, in effect, is celebrated in that father of all cash cows Riverdance.
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They are a compact, workmanlike side and have two attackers blessed with skill and tremendous pace.
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There are a number of rationales for this, but the one most advocated is that those who are blessed with being successful have a greater obligation to pay back society with by paying higher taxes.
April « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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Meantime, EBay has moved to stop the auction of a Eucharist wafer said to have been blessed by Pope John Paul II.
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He gave the man the Viaticum and blessed him, anointing him on the head, chest, hands and feet.
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Blessed with picturesque locales, the city may soon become the ‘most favoured destination’ for the glitterati of the film world.
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One of the silver linings to this dark cloud is the lively and blessed love expressed as brothers and sisters in Christ come together as the family to pray for a beloved brother and sister.
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You are certainly blessed with a glib tongue.
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They remember a Scottish national side blessed with a few quality players, but with too many other deficiencies to overcome.
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One example of this truth is Blessed Damien de Vesteur.
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That is ultimately what a virgin is, a woman who is free, and it is a free, blessed and happy humanity that is able to incarnate God.
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True blessedness is entailed upon the right understanding and due improvement of the mysteries of the kingdom of God.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The rail workers are blessed with a down-to-earth sense of humor and dry wit that is more than a match for any managerial staff.
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Everytime she left the house she blessed herself with holy water, even if only going to the well.
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And there is always wind power to harness, blessed as the islands are with the trade winds.
Times, Sunday Times
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By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
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Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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not a blessed dime
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The best ten will be blessed with free goodies.
The Sun
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FATHER, "our Blessed Lord has given us the substance of all that can be said, as to _the privilege of prayer, what to pray for_, and _how to pray_.
The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
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Those who wash their robes are blessed and may enter the holy city via the gates; but ‘outside’ are the polluted and polluting.
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And when I see a whole silent, solemn drawing-room full of idiots sitting with their hands on each other's foreheads "communing," I tug the white hairs from my head and curse till my asthma brings me the blessed relief of suffocation.
Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875)
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She was also perceptive and blessed with a keen sense of humour and a prodigious memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even the names by which they were known (capsa, capsella, theca, pyxis, arca etc.) are quite general in character, and it seems certain that the same names also designated receptacles for the Blessed Eucharist, the holy oils, and other pious objects.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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And in the rivers, where the deceivers, fraudful both in heart and word, had shown unto the saint a deep abyss instead of a safe ford, passed he over safely, having first blessed the passage, and changed the abyss into a ford; and the ford which before was pervious unto all changed he unto a deep abyss.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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She was also perceptive and blessed with a keen sense of humour and a prodigious memory.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hits it miles, has nerves of steel and is blessed with that they call in football a good touch for a big fella.
The Sun
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San Miguel, aside from the brief but blessed rains, is very, very dry. barbaroja
San Miguel de Allende Humidity
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They've arrived to be blessed, in celebration of Feast Day of St.
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Were shriven, assoiled, and blessed; a mass have heard,
La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier
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Mahatma Gandhi and blessed Mother Teresa, great Indians of the last century, greatly contributed to build solidarity and freedom among Indian people.
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This week all over the media yet another presidential vestal intern revealed the details of her sad 50-year-old saga of 18 months worth of sort-of-secret liaisons with JFK of Blessed Memory.
Myra Chanin: Mimi Alford's Hymen Sacrificed on the Altar of History
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To supplement the work of the schools and churches in the religious training of the freedman was the great and blessed mission of the W.B. H.M. Society.
"In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches
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Señor Ryle, are you suggesting that the Peter Mourne I knew became -- Well, I'm blessed !
DOUBLE DECEIT
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled.
Beat Stress
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the blessed assurance of a steady income
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While people and pundits of other states got either one classical form or nothing to pamper and nourish, Keralites are blessed with a few.
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He that burns incense to God, and so puts contempt upon the incense of Christ's intercession, is as if he blessed an idol; it was as great an affront to God as if they had paid their devotions to a false god.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The established church is blessed by planting churches.
Christianity Today
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After a time, the doctor had me removed from the backboard (which is a deucedly painful thing to be strapped to, in case you ever have the dubious privilege), carted downstairs for x-rays, and finally, blessedly, sent home.
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Psalm 45 is a celebration of God's great and blessed king.
