Sentence examples for without a blessing from inspiring English sources

No bawdy rogue in a stinking piss-damp alley will lift a petticoat or down a pot without a blessing on Good Sir Boris.

I found that the darkly charred locusts, scorpions and silkworms tasted like burned paper -- texture without flavor, perhaps a blessing after all.

Months could go by without his seeing Harding — a blessing in disguise, because it kept him at a distance from the wicked dens of the "Ohio Gang".

Being raised in Queens at a time when one could choose among three local teams without fearing Bud Lightweights was a blessing.

In 1999 NATO unleashed an air war, without a UN blessing, to stop a Serbian campaign in the province of Kosovo.

No visit here is complete without a muttered blessing over a swig of (in truth, rather stale-tasting) water from St Paul's Well, which is in the warren of streets that comprises Old Tarsus.

If the fish and wildlife advisers decide the owl needs more old-growth forests, the land agency, like Rough & Ready Lumber, will have a plan without a scientific blessing.

Is a world without snow a curse or a blessing?

And he had managed to get through all his jumps without serious injury, which was a blessing for everyone.

Someone mutters a blessing and hangs up without identifying himself.

And flout them she does, without apology and with a blessed disregard for neatness.