lady bountiful
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In Decatur, 111., a lady bountiful gave a seedy-looking stranger $1 and a cheery injunction: "Keep your spirits high."
From Time Magazine Archive
Maidens may not need much protection from pestilence these days, but the Y.W. is still the lady bountiful helping young girls in need.
From Time Magazine Archive
In The Fly a man kills a fly; in A Cup of Tea, Rosemary Fell, young, wealthy, plays lady bountiful to a starving girl and takes her home for tea.
From Time Magazine Archive
She liked nothing better than finding out some obscure and distant connection—there were several of them—and acting the lady bountiful, leaving behind her bewilderment, and too often discontent.
From Where Angels Fear to Tread by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
So long as China was weak, and consequently unable to resent the patronage of her friend, so long was Russia able to play "my lady bountiful" with a good grace and perfect success.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
