benevolences
Example Sentences
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Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sunday-school should contribute regularly and generously to its own denominational benevolences.
From Training the Teacher by A. F. Schauffler
This last was a favourite phrase, and conveyed quite an alluring sense of mystery linked with vague promise of unstinted benevolences on the part of Miss Tripp.
From And So They Were Married by Florence Morse Kingsley
Charles the First, amidst his urgent wants, at first had hoped, by the pathetic appeal to benevolences, that he should have touched the hearts of his unfriendly commoners; but the term of benevolence proved unlucky.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
