blessed event

Over dinner, the Knight had mentioned that Scalise had spoken before the EURO event.

The Father had been in sore straits of mind, as month after month had passed without tidings of his "blessed child."

My schooling was shocking but, as a blessed compensation, my college stage was rather exceptionally good.

And this went on during the whole of the time this country was blessed with Cromwell and a Republican Government.

This would in any event have depressed prices of cotton, even under ordinary conditions.

This man had often escaped drowning, and only recently upon the blessed day of last Pentecost.