benison

• We can fancy the merry yet gracious poet chuckling over the vision of the child and the fancy of his words A GRACE FOR A CHILD Here a little child I stand Heaving up my either hand Cold as paddocks though they be, frogs Here I lift them up to thee For a benison to fall   On our meat, and on us all. —  England's Antiphon
• Hot amber tea laced with whisky appeared within minutes and the reviving benison was sipped in silence. —  Cargo of Eagles - Margery Allingham - Campion 21: 1968
• The road mounted between groves of olive trees and the air was like a benison, soft and clean. —  Spinsters in Jeopardy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 17
• Torrington's crowd would be knocked out of business and a spirit of peace and harmony would descend like a benison upon the hard working trio Could any solution be more satisfactory, but there was a fly in the ointment. —  Men of Affairs
• Such glimpses of a happy home had streamed through its opening portals and fallen on the heart of the little solitary watcher like a benison. —  Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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