blessed

• “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

• “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

• “Surprise, and caused him to break forth as he did, "I have blessed him, yea and he shall be blessed," would never have permitted or impowered _Isaac_, to have _blessed Esau_, in an _effectual_ manner beyond his Brother: Or if a mere Pronouncing of Words, when uttered as a Blessing from the Heads of Families, was in itself an”

  Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those Doctrines.

• “No one can doubt that she is a lamb of the Saviour's fold, and if he is about to gather her into his bosom -- "She paused, overcome by emotion, then added in a tremulous tone," It will be a sad thing to _us_, no doubt, but to her -- dear little one -- a blessed, _blessed_ change. ”

  Holidays at Roselands

• “But though it be easy to defme the term blessed, when applied to the Deity, jet it is not so easy to form clear and just conceptions of the blessed - ness, or happiness of a being, who is all mind, or a pure immaterial spirit.”

  Internet Archive: Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice

• “Police say the toddler's stepfather admitted to inserting what he called the blessed needles in a series of bizarre rituals.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2009

• “There were some 100 claims of different miracles, but they're presenting this one as the official one to make him what they call blessed and then they'll need another miracle in order to make him a saint.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2007

• “So we treat our traditions, so we hail the demand of Ireland for what I call a blessed oblivion of the past.”

  Public Speaking

• “Oh!" said Jack, "I was only a considering what they calls the blessed aspect of the sky, and it seems to me there is a sort of kind of look about things as says that there won't be no marriage at all to-day.”

  Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2

• “At age 36, Leyva found herself pregnant with what she calls her "blessed surprise," daughter Alexandria.”

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