benisons

We stood up ourselves and called benisons on the Germans.

The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2009

Three new novels set in far-flung locales dramatize this national neurosis still at work, showing characters torn between an urge to introduce the benisons of Western civilization and a dread that such intrusions will be damaging and unwanted.

Overseas and On Edge 2011

He sees himself as the applied scientist who will bring the benisons of molecular bi­ology to practical use.

Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives 2005

From alleyways the benisons of beggars came, from lanes they waved their precatory hands.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

From alleyways the benisons of beggars came, from lanes they waved their precatory hands.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

Perhaps it was no more than the comfort of knowing that he could still take pleasure in the unsolicited benisons of existence.

The Murder Room James, P. D. 1988

Johnnie Pascoe had been a better man than I, but he had never had the little benisons of life that I had got.

The Rainbow and the Rose Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1958

It was night bereft of benisons, day made frightful by darkness.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

The moon that night was too brilliant for benisons; the gaunt, red world lay naked and unshriven for the sin that long ago had brought upon it the wrath of God.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

She must also visit the potter's and washerman's wives, whose benisons are essential; they give her a new pot and a little rice respectively.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell