An accident sometimes proves a blessing.
Aunt Nancy said "What a blessing.
How beautiful it was, lying embowered in the twilight of the old trees; the tips of the loftiest spruces came out in purple silhouette against the northwestern sky of rose and amber; down behind it the Blair Water dreamed in silver; the Wind Woman had folded her misty bat-wings in a valley of sunset and stillness lay over the world like a blessing.
In conclusion he sought the blessing of God on the revivalist and asked that this tireless enthusiast might be led to husband his strength: at which there was a fervent Amen.
Then Mynors rose: 'May the blessing of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost rest upon us now and for ever.
" I asked, as I watched the father, the daughter, the future husband, now united—all blessed and blessing.
The mother—on the whole a good woman—died blessing him; the strange, godless, loveless, misanthrope grandmother lived still, entirely supported by this self-sacrificing man.
It was what the old dying patriarch demanded of his son Esau, promising in requital the blessing of his last breath.
And Madame did engage me that very night—by God's blessing I was spared the necessity of passing forth again into the lonesome, dreary, hostile street.
There was a little gray wind out in the meadows that night, and it danced along beside us on viewless, fairy feet, and sang a delicate song of the lovely, waiting years, while the night laid her beautiful hands of blessing over the world.
A blessing on all good cooks, says I.
MacAllister, but I leave you my blessing.
It's a pleasure to me—for all the pain went out of her memory years ago and jest left its blessing.
Flowers that had been planted by the hands of the schoolmaster's bride flung their sweetness on the shadowy air, like the beauty and blessing of sacred yesterdays.
A sad thing it will be for us all, but a blessing for him!
I'd not care that Heathcliff gained his ends, and triumphed in robbing me of my last blessing!
I do regret, however, that he so little deserves the trouble: if I wished any blessing in the world, it was to find him a worthy object of pride; and I'm bitterly disappointed with the whey-faced, whining wretch!
And I, in my secret heart (and conscience never reproached me), thought what a blessing it would be for him should Heathcliff put him out of misery; and what a blessing for me should he send Heathcliff to his right abode!
If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
He cunningly conjectured they were staying away in order to avoid hearing his protracted blessing.
