benedictive

She was a modern spiritual adventurer who had escaped unscathed from all the anathemas of the old theology; and she abounded, like St. Francis, in her sense of the new dispensation and in her benedictive exuberance towards all the creatures of God, including not merely sun, moon, and stars and her sister the lamb but also her brother the wolf.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

She was a modern spiritual adventurer who had escaped unscathed from all the anathemas of the old theology; and she abounded, like St. Francis, in her sense of the new dispensation and in her benedictive exuberance towards all the creatures of God, including not merely sun, moon, and stars and her sister the lamb but also her brother the wolf.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

Or was it the benedictive and essentially Christian creed which he preached that disengaged the weight from every soul, allowing each to breathe an easier and sweeter breath?

Evelyn Innes 1892

Happy sensation of daylight; a flower-like afternoon; little children paddling; the world is behind them; they are as flowers, and are conscious only of the benedictive influences of sand and sea and sky.

Modern Painting 1892

It is only in moments of contemplation like this, when our wretched individuality is lost in the benedictive influences of nature, that true happiness is found.

Mike Fletcher A Novel 1892

In his wake the clamour which had risen in the other apartments swept into the Hall of Beatifications with the violence of delirious love; and, under his slender, white, benedictive hand, all those distracted creatures fell upon both knees, nought remaining but the prostration of a devout multitude, overwhelmed, as it were, by the apparition of its god.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

In his wake the clamour which had risen in the other apartments swept into the Hall of Beatifications with the violence of delirious love; and, under his slender, white, benedictive hand, all those distracted creatures fell upon both knees, nought remaining but the prostration of a devout multitude, overwhelmed, as it were, by the apparition of its god.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

In his wake the clamour which had risen in the other apartments swept into the Hall of Beatifications with the violence of delirious love; and, under his slender, white, benedictive hand, all those distracted creatures fell upon both knees, nought remaining but the prostration of a devout multitude, overwhelmed, as it were, by the apparition of its god.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871

She was a modern spiritual adventurer who had escaped unscathed from all the anathemas of the old theology; and she abounded, like St. Francis, in her sense of the new dispensation and in her benedictive exuberance towards all the creatures of God, including not merely sun, moon, and stars and her sister the lamb but also her brother the wolf.

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Gustave Flaubert 1850

Most Dardenne films use only the plainchant of human dialogue; this one provides moments of transcendent beauty with a single Beethoven phrase, gorgeous and benedictive, recurringly used in scenes with the boy.

Slate Articles Nigel Andrews 2012