boon

• Try to wrap yourself around this cliché -- if surfing is wandering for 40 days and 40 nights in a desert, the boon is the vision brought back from the quest and the wake is the path of the whole quest's footsteps. —  Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest
• This boon is a son who will never be equalled and who will never die. —  The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry
• There is, in most cases, a strict eye kept on such hands, and if the boon is attained, it is in general by stealthy means At my boarding-house in Charleston, I often saw negro laundresses who called for linen; one of these in particular, I noticed, seemed to be in habitual low spirits; on one occasion she appeared to be in unusual distress, in consequence of one of the boarders leaving the house in her debt. —  An Englishman's Travels in America His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States
• The water consumption of the people became ten times what it was in the previous year, and this fact alone told how the boon was appreciated The scheme did not stop at putting up standpipes for those who fetched the water. —  How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine
• Yet this boon is the commonest indulgence of the novelist-as it now (to become personal) is mine I bridge two months And you must imagine this bridge as indeed a short and airy passage across a valley, down into which the persons of our story must carefully climb, across which they must plod, and up whose far side they must laboriously scramble to meet us upon the level ground. —  Once Aboard the Lugger

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