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Le vivant me repugne, quand on me parle je plisse les yeux et fait la grimace parce que la voix des gens me blesse les tympans, je ne fait jamais la bise ni ne sert la main sauf si la personne en face attends comme un blaireau.

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

Now, let it be thy part, during thy time of remaining with her, to employ thy utmost diligence in pleasing her, by deserving and gaining her grace, till heaven shall blesse thee with better fortune: and as she promised, so she performed.

The Decameron 2004

For I saw there behind a certaine chest (which was vnto them in steed of an altar, whereupon they set candles and oblations) an image hauing wings like vnto the image of Saint Michael, and other images also, holding their fingers, as if they would blesse some body.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

Accursed be cruell destiny, that forced thee to so base a kind of life, and did not blesse thee with a fairer fortune.

The Decameron 2004

Goldsmiths worke vpon the couer which he holdeth fast with his left hand, and in his right hand he hath a crosse of gold, with which crosse he ceaseth not to blesse the people as he rideth.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And thus not doubting of your willing desires, and forwardnesse towards the same, we pray God to blesse you with a lucky beginning, fortunate successe, and happily to end the same.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Emperours maiesty himselfe wil blesse and bowe, and knocke their heads before their images, in so much that they will crie earnestly unto their images to helpe them to the things which they need.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Metropolites, Archbishops, and Bishops: who all in their order come to the chaire, and one after another blesse the Emperour with their two forefingers.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And when they come to any house, they blesse themselues 3. or 4. times before they will salute any man in the house.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Besides their priuate gods, in open places stand Their crosses vnto which they crooche, and blesse themselues with hand.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003