Sentence examples for greater blessing from inspiring English sources

One longstanding reason why boys have been seen as a greater blessing has been that they are expected to become better economic providers for their parents' old age.

In response to the enthusiastic reception of the first volume of "Middlemarch," Eliot wrote, "Hardly anything could have happened to me which I could regard as a greater blessing than this growth of my spiritual existence when my bodily existence is decaying.

In his phone call, Mr. Obama began by congratulating Mr. Karzai on the birth of a baby daughter on Thursday, saying that as the father of two girls himself, there was "no greater blessing" than to have daughters, administration officials said.

"I don't believe there is any greater blessing than that of being pierced through & through by the splendour or sweetness of words, & no one who is not transfixed by 'Die Sonne tönt nach alter Weise,' or 'thick as Autumnal leaves that strew the brooks,' has known half the joy of living.

There is no greater blessing than that.

This is a great blessing.

"It's a great blessing at a time like this.

"Thus the medal is a great blessing for me".

"Getting the elbow done was a great blessing".

Gopnik sees awkwardness as "a great blessing": a new form of equanimity.

No, he replies:It was a great blessing for all of us.