Gracious in example sentence
Saint Dunstan--may he be gracious to us!--stands quiet in his niche, though I should forget my orisons in killing a fat buck--I stay out of my cell sometimes a night, doing I wot not what--Saint Dunstan never complains--a quiet master he is, and a peaceful, as ever was made of wood.--But to be a yeoman in attendance on my sovereign the King--the honour is great, doubtless--yet, if I were but to step aside to comfort a widow in one corner, or to kill a deer in another, it would be, 'where is the dog Priest?' says one.