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

What great responsibility as to benevolences rests upon the teacher?

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.

Ah, that is another of Mercedes's romantic benevolences.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Edward IV. was the first who practised a new method of taking his subjects' money without consent of parliament, under the plausible name of benevolences.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry