benevolences

Example Sentences

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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

The expenses were defrayed by benevolences from the City Companies, and ten years' fees, fines, and amercements.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

In a Parliament which met in January 1484 he enacted good laws, amongst which was one declaring benevolences illegal.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson

Let us not disparage the importance of adding forty people to the church membership, or doubling the size of the Sunday school, or tripling the benevolences, or increasing the congregations.

From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by Fiske, George Walter