The bittern, being blest with prudence and self-control, made no move to meet trouble half-way.
For nothing great or high can come from thence, Where that blest plant denies its influence.
Blest be thy loving light, where'er it spills, And blessed thy fair face, O mother mild!
By service gained, by promised faith possessed; To him I owe it, that my age is blest Still with a child: nor think that I prefer Perseus to thee, but to the loss of her.
O Hermes, 'tis thou who conductest the blest To the seats where their souls shall for ever exist, Who governest their shades by the power of thy spell, The favourite of Heaven, the favourite of Hell.
In his imagination he saw long years of his future life stretching before him, blest with the right to call Hetty his own: he could be content with very little at present.
Rowland Taylor, who gloried in a marriage blest with children, which Gardiner would not acknowledge to be a marriage at all, maintained that Christian antiquity had allowed the marriage of priests.
Wherefore, no sooner was Roger blest with gold, than he resolved not to be such a fool as to lose liberally, or to give away one farthing.
Hath not God blest thee through the crock of gold at last, in spite of sin?
He had come to himself again, in solitude, by nights, as a man awakened from a feverish dream; and the hallowing ministrations of her company by day had blest reflective solitude with sympathy and counsel.
It is manifest that these places must be somewhere; for, more especially of the blest estate, whither did Enoch, and Elijah, and our risen Lord ascend to?
Blest if I don't think she can see it in the fire!
Blest if I didn't get the worst wallopin' I ever had!
Blest if I don't think somethin's the matter with the dawg!
Anne wasblest with a happy insensibility of temper, ever in the points which the most nearly affect her sex; and the king's aversion towards her, as well as his prosecution of the divorce, had never given her the least uneasiness.
He pictured her in winter as sitting by his side, before the fire, the delicate head of his pet dog encircled by her arm; in summer they would roam in blest content together through the endless forests of this beautiful new world.
It seems to be particularly blest every moment of its blessed little life.
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It makes us wander; wander earth around, To fly that tyrant, thought.
His imposing statue at Mount Auburn will look out upon generations mentally and spiritually blest through his truthful ministries.
But his bright life shed its radiance back upon many souls who had beenblest by his ministries, and his name has since been an honored one in our churches.
I dare not unveil The shadows that float o'er Eternity's vale; Nought waits for the good but a spirit of Love, That will hail their blest advent to regions above.
I appeal to that blest day When passion's wildest ecstasy Was coldness to the joys I knew, 20 When every sorrow sunk away.
I murmured her name; I blest her; I folded her to my heart in delicious fondness; I called her by my own name; I worshipped her: I was mad for her.
I hope your next letter will not reverse all, and then I shall be happy till I see her,--one of the blest when I do see her, if she looks like my own beautiful love.
And say to Philip that I blest him too; He never meant us any thing but good.
So blest a life these thoughtless realms display; 255 Thus idly busy rolls their world away.
If I had been blest with a son--but that is neither here nor there--it was my intention to have educated him almost entirely as a naturalist.
Again, I say, how I loved andblest those painters!
Once more look down, blest creature, and behold These arms the precious innocence enfold; Assist my erring nature to fulfil The sacred trust, and ward off every ill!
The first men that our Saviour dear Did choose to wait upon him here, Blest fishers were, and fish the last Food was that he on earth did taste: I therefore strive to follow those Whom he to follow him hath chose.
His life is neither tost in boisterous, seas, Or the vexatious world, or lost in slothful ease; Please and full blest he lives when he his God can please.
Blest they who seek While in their youth, With spirit meek, The way of truth.
For thy blest sake (O thou infinitie of excellence) Henceforth in mens discourse Rome shall not take The wall of Athens, as 'tofore.
By Heaven you are a worthy woman, and that Man is blest can come near such a Lady.
Should I believe thee, yet thy pulse beats, woman, And says the name of Wife did promise thee The blest reward of duty to thy mother, Who gave so often witness of her joy, When she did boast thy likeness to her Husband.
Oh blest and happiest woman, a dead slumber Begins to creep upon me, oh my jewel!
Their active sports may give a blest content To those, for whom they are again begun.
O then, how blest Among thy saints elected to abide, And with thy angels placéd, side by side!
Paradise is, as from the learn'd I gather, A choir of blest souls circling in the Father.
She sat and wept, and with her untressed hair Still wiped the feet she was so blest to touch; And he wiped off the soiling of despair From her sweet soul, because she loved so much.
With assenting nod, Its head upon its mother's breast The baby bowed without demur-- Of the kingdom of the blest Possessor, not inheritor.
Thou that hast thy palace far Above the moon and every star; Thou that sittest on a throne To which the night was never known, Regard my voice, and make me blest By kindly granting its request.
Most blest believer he, Who in that land of darkness and blind eyes, Thy long-expected healing wings could see When thou didst rise!
Awake, my soul, and come away; Put on thy best array, Lest if thou longer stay, Thou lose some minutes of so blest a day.
Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, Whose loves in higher love endure; What souls possess themselves so pure, Or is there blessedness like theirs?
Ah, blest if he had never gone Beyond its rural shed!
O Mary, I believed you true, And I was blest in so believing; But till this hour I never knew-- That you were taken up for thieving!
The smile that blest one lover's heart Has broken many more!
But let me get him home, with a good grip of his hair, and I'm blest if he shall have a whole bone in his skin!
Here's a precious merry Christmas, I'm blest if I can earn either bit or sup!
Why should birds sing such merry notes, Unless they were more blest than we?
Blest be thy loving light, where'er it spills, And blessëd thy fair face, O Mother mild!
Since three maids so blest Thy safety plan, e'en in the court of heaven; And so much certain good my words forebode.
O Priam, of vast wealth possessed, and supremely blestin thine offspring, and I too, this aged woman, the mother of such children!
But look on her, whether she seems aught to resemble thy wife; and being blest leave off from thy grief.
But I will also send these women to blest Greece, as thy mandate bids.
But do thou with good will quit the barbarian land for Athens, for it becomes thee not to dwell here, when you can possess a blest city.
But no one of mortals is prosperous or blest to the last, for none hath yet been born free from pain.
For it is gone, it is gone, the entire race of the children of Pelops has perished, and the happiness which once resided in these blest abodes.
These storms o’erblown, now blest with constant peace, She saw her riches and her trade increase.
State here by wealth, by beauty yet undone, How blestif vain excess be yet unknown!
There the heart from its grief in a moment shall cease, And the soul hush its cries in the cadence of peace, And the life with the laughter of rhapsody blest Shall rejoice through the years in the Valleys of Rest.
Every good thing that has blest mankind since Adam had his celebrated adventure with green goods in the Garden of Eden, has been discovered, invented, dug out or dug up, by a "sooner.
Tis morning on the hill-tops and all the skies are gold, And on the purple summits the raptures of the blest Are crooning their evangels and singing songs of rest!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
