And directly she had crossed the road at Holborn, her thoughts all came naturally and regularly to roost upon her work, and she forgot that she was, properly speaking, an amateur worker, whose services were unpaid, and could hardly be said to wind the world up for its daily task, since the world, so far, had shown very little desire to take the boons which Mary's society for woman's suffrage had offered it.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
On his promising the unknown warrior any three boons that he shall ask, Cormac is given the magic branch.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Dr. William Stokes, who was himself, as we shall see, one of the most important contributors to our clinical knowledge of diseases of the heart and lungs in the nineteenth century, said with regard to the great French clinician whom he considered his master: "Time has shown that the introduction of auscultation and its subsidiary physical signs has been one of the greatest boons ever conferred by the genius of man on the world.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh