benison

• “Thus it is my holy benison to be employed by this excellent Lady and is why I am writing to you in this capacity.”

  The Huffington Post: Ellis Weiner: Recent O'Donnell Fundraising Letter

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Last Lullaby

• “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

• “The gods owe him their benison and support because, like them, he is old and a monarch.”

  Shakespeare

• “Seven feet tall fully dressed, he was ready to go out among his people and seek the balm of their benison.”

  Into the Thinking Kingdoms

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