benevolences

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The Xeric Foundation, along with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, stands as one of comicdom's twin benevolences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patiently they awaited lustrous benevolences of Dazbog the Sun God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Special expenditures: the doctor and the dentist, church, benevolences, etc.

From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French

He practised small benevolences and small tyrannies, liked to see smiling faces about him, and declined to believe seriously in the unhappiness of others.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

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