benediction

Its right hand is raised as an act of benediction.

He touched each of them on the head, like a benediction.

Each night is a benediction to good work either started or completed.

He gave the benediction at the end of the formal program.

She lifted both hands and set them on his head as if in benediction.

The words were something between a benediction and a curse.

Else the benediction and blessing will lost to his son.

I spread them in benediction, and reached up for some air.

His words could have been either a benediction or a curse.

And at last we had struggled through the service to the benediction.

It was a wedding and a benediction, my mother always said.

But the wall is the final benediction to urban violence.

When he entered her, it was a beginning, not a benediction.

An hour after the game, the benedictions have been pronounced.

She chose to tell them after Benediction in the evening.

My children would return for that benediction if I had forgotten it.

After all was gone, two words lingered like a benediction.

All you have to do is to go to the church and get under the benediction light."

Then he delivered his benediction, and the crowd began to break up.

As if automatically, he raised his other hand in benediction.

For a traveler, especially one who's come from a big city, it's most often a benediction.

When they were settled, she spread her hands over them, as if in benediction.

The leader raised his hand in a gesture of benediction.

"Very good," she said, and her voice was a benediction that kept the cold at bay.

She smiled at him, a more relaxed look, almost a benediction.