The first of its more than 1800 illustrations shows god the father crowned and enthroned, holding an orb with his left hand and making a sign of benediction with his right.
One cyclist who took corners on trust, she cursed by the ineffable name, but instantly withdrew the malediction for luck and addressed his dwindling back with the eye of misery and a voice of benediction.
It would have been enough to live for, merely to look up at the wide benediction of the sky, or as much of it as was visible between the houses, genial once more with sunshine.
For when the soft sluiceways of the skies opened and the lichened shingle roof shed the waters in a surge down the northwest sheltered corner of the house, I could strip and accept the benediction.
When she had straightened the bed to his liking the big Greek inclined his head so deliberately that the gesture seemed one of benediction rather than a simple nod of thanks.
The Companion presented him with a Card on which it was written, and then withdrew with the fair Petitioner, who pronounced before her departure a thousand benedictions on the Abbot's goodness.
Give us one practical thing today, kind of almost like the benediction that sends us the last quarter mile of that jog, the last 15 minutes of the traffic jam.
When we did go, though, it was meaningful, and as my political career took off, I made a point of inviting Reverend Wright to do an invocation or a benediction at key events.
" [S]leepers in that quiet earth" puts the seal on the cessation of activity, and presents us with a sense of resolution that feels like a benediction.