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
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 Disraeli, Isaac
The reaction from his fear, the recognition of her fear, stirred in him a love more personal than any of the vast benevolences that he had felt.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
What great responsibility as to benevolences rests upon the teacher?
From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.
