benison

How to use benison in a sentence

• I wouldn't have missed Dot, doing the honours in her wedding-gown, my benison on her bright face!

  The Cricket on the Hearth | Charles Dickens

• By now Mr. Denton has brought you my incoherent note of thanks for the benison of Wigglesworth.

  Mavis of Green Hill | Faith Baldwin

• His memory of his own mother, the sweet, patient sufferer of Bonn, was to him like a benison his whole life long.

  The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III (of 3) | Alexander Wheelock Thayer

• Let them go; but surely it is too much to expect us to pronounce a benison upon their dead and departed dry bones.

  The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 | John Charles Dent

• And she looked down at his beautiful bent head and laid her other hand on it in benison.

  We Can't Have Everything | Rupert Hughes