Example Sentences

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My Babes were destin'd to a fairer death, If grace had blest thee with a fairer life    Rich.

From Richard III by Shakespeare, William

If I had, blest if that goat-stalker should have had my boots!

From !Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by Sheldon, Charles Mills

The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And show'd the names whom love of God had blest, And lo!

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

He would send the children into a free state, there to be educated; that they may live in the enjoyment of those rights with which nature had blest them.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

And when he had blest Ja-cob he went his way.

From Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood by Pollard, Josephine